Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Shut your mouth

I love pinterest. But I am NOT loving the shameful pins. For example someone sees a photo of a woman they perceive as fat and pin it with the comment that it's motivation to keep them from getting THAT FAT. This is a disservice to the woman making the shameful pin and an insult to the woman in the photograph. what message does that send to the Marilyns of the world? What's disgusting, is the forceful shame of one person's ideal on another person.

I want to say to this sin-pinner: Yay for you. I bet you send the same message to your sisters and daughters. I'm sure the women around you are uncomfortable in a bathing suit or dresses. Or they ascribe to your body bashing ways and you shame people together.

I'm so tired of the body bashing. I don't care WHAT size you are. NO ONE SHOULD CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE'S SIZE! I don't care what your BMI or waist size is. I only care that you love yourself and care for yourself in a loving way. Doing so makes you a better mother, sister, and friend.

That's not going to happen if you body bash.

This woman is STUNNING. End of story.

4 comments:

Annie said...

This reminds me of a post I wrote a while back but haven't posted yet. I will here soon. Preach it, sister!

Iman Woods Creative said...

Annie, thank you. And please come back and post a link to your blog here in the comments!

MeganThornton said...

In response to this, there is an article on www.xojane.com about "fat-shaming" that I thought you would be interested in. It's really sad that people can be so hard on one another, aren't we hard enough on ourselves. Anyway, enjoy.

Iman Woods Creative said...

Thanks, Megan, I'll check it out. I think fat OR skinny shaming is still SHAMING. And it doesn't benefit anyone. Thanks for commenting!