Just because I'm sick of it, "anti-skinny girls" Options

[twin__cinema]

I stumbled upon this "blog rant" by JK Rowling. (No, I don't read anything by her, I just found this at random)
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extra..._view.cfm?id=22

I've noticed there is a lot of rage towards thin girls, and I'd like to know why. Also, I'd like to know why people think that just because you are small that you are empty-headed and void of intellect.

Perhaps it's only jealousy? Why be angry at someone else because of the way they look, and then follow by calling them shallow when they are the ones who are passing judgement upon someone's appearance? If they have such a problem with it, either move on and be happy with yourself (versus insulting someone who is thin) or lose weight and become thin yourself. I find it especially ironic how these are often the same people who believe that all shapes and sizes are considered "beautiful", but then still harp on how terrible skinny girls are.

Are the normal/larger girls really the shallow ones, for passing judgement? Or is it the thin girls, who take pride in their appearance and maintain it, or simply are just small?

Are the normal/larger girls jealous?

All of the above? None of the above? Share your opinions with me. I'd like to know.



Speaking from a personal perspective, I am a small person. It's only been that way for about 5 or 6 years of my life. I did diet to become smaller. Well, maybe not diet, more like starve myself. Puberty helped, too. :p
I also have a small bone structure, and am just naturally a smaller person. Why should I get the crap from larger girls when I am just, well, me? I do believe I have a brain, and I'm not some mindless airhead just because I'm thin.

[Respudious]

My sister is skinny and me and my brother always pick on her (jokingly ) by callin her string-bean and names like that. It's all in fun and she really doesnt mind. But I think skinny girls (not all of them though) really shouldn't have a beef over being "picked on" for being thin. Think about it, most girls in this country would love to be skinny, so to be picked on for that is like being picked on for being rich or being really smart. Its not really a bad trait, but I think its a way for others not as blessed to make the person feel like they're not that special. Just my opinion, I call it as I see it.

[*mipadi*]

But I think skinny girls (not all of them though) really shouldn't have a beef over being "picked on" for being thin. Think about it, most girls in this country would love to be skinny, so to be picked on for that is like being picked on for being rich or being really smart. Its not really a bad trait, but I think its a way for others not as blessed to make the person feel like they're not that special.

But see, that's the problem: Many people who are thing aren't trying to be thin, they just are. It's not bad to be thin, but people make it bad by using it as an insult in the way in which you suggested. Why is it so important for people who aren't thin to put a thin person down? Clearly it's because they are jealous and projecting their own insecurities onto the thin person, but that hardly makes it right. And as someone else noted, being thin isn't all its cracked up to be, which is why some thin people do "have a beef".