Now you're all for body positivity because a few songs attempting to uplift curvy girls came out and a few people on the Internet are trying to make us feel human. I bet you kept your mouth shut all these years while the media was telling you that your body was the only acceptable body that a woman could have. If you didn't speak back then, you can't speak now. You're only dealing with some hurt feelings, while us fat girls are wrecked inside. We grew up in said context. You have no idea.
Let me just de-construct this statement you have made:
”a few songs attempting to uplift curvy girls”
A few - Really? Do you watch music videos? Have you seen the latest music video between J-Lo and Iggy, have you seen Iggy? Beyonce? Mariah Carey? Jennifer Lawrence? Sex sells, so big butts will sell. It’s probably better to distinguish which songs appreciate curves rather than sexualise them. But that’s not my problem.
Attempting - Exactly, attempting. Because they failed. And the criticisms against All About That Bass and Anaconda come from both bigger and smaller women. Lots of articles, blogs, people have criticised it and they aren’t skinny people. That should tell you something. My issue isn’t with the song’s ”attempt”, she tried, but she couldn’t do it without sexualising women’s bodies and calling women ”bitches”.
My issue is not with women who want to uplift others who weigh their size. My issue is with the way they do it - by being hypocrites, owning up to double standards and appealing to male sexual desires. I care because I have bigger friends, aunts etc. Every woman should care.
”Us fat girls are wrecked inside”, wrecked enough to make other people feel wrecked too? Yes, of course, I empathise. Think that skinny women have always been the deal? Click here to prove yourself wrong.
