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"When thin women are accused of having an eating disorder, here's what happens: they feel bad, they get shamed, and then they go back to being the desired body type in our current society, an idea reinforced constantly in the media and the world at large."

Why not just avoid commenting on her appearance full stop? Isn't that the whole point of feminism? In the past, Jezebel banned comments that did that.

Questioning her word choice isn't "attacked." You're clearly biased here.

What ever you want, although you get daily goals for protein, calcium, fibre etc. so you try to meet them. Eating low GI food (wholemeal bread, lots of fruit and veg, low sugar) keeps you fuller for longer.

Clearly I do care about them being judged on their looks, which is why I questioned the initial comment.

Thin women are regularly accused of having eating disorders. In some ways, isn't being accused of a serious mental illness worse?

Google "accused of being anorexic." It's a common thing for thin women.

Actually - if you'd bothered to read it, you would know that I only weighed more for a year. That happened due to appetite increasing medication - which I mentioned being a hindrance to weight loss. It was a struggle losing it, and I wrote about it in the context of significant health problems.

Yes, but try saying that a fat person looks 'unhealthy' on this site and people go mad.

It actually is. For starters, read through some of the comments on this article. Or google 'thin shaming.'

No, I actually wrote about people saying negative things to others when they express happiness. I.e. someone posting about their weight loss, relationship or new job is said to be 'humble bragging.'

Again, solely because you feel that overweight people are treated more harshly by society. That's subjective. Neither skinny nor obese women should by judged for their looks. Again, see HAAS statements on being unable to judge health from appearance.

Only if by 'logic-ing' you mean taking out your frustration at the media's treatment of fat people on skinny ones, then ok. It makes no sense. Feminism isn't about mocking people for their appearance.

Judging someone on their looks and saying they look bad, is pretty much failing to grasp the basic premise of feminism. You either want equality (for people of every weight) or you don't. You can't judge a skinny person harshly just because you think the media gives overweight people a harder time. That's a stupid

Can you explain why not?

They might be shocked, but that doesn't mean that it's bad. If you look at the 'Success Stories' forum on myfitnesspal, lots of people lose a similar amount of weight in that amount of time.

What exactly is 'logically unsound' about showing how discriminatory your comment is? You dislike the way she looks (regardless of her BMI, which you've chosen to ignore) and therefore think you can judge her health. That's no better than fat shaming, so don't kid yourself. It's not feminist.

If she's physically and mentally healthy, does it matter how quickly she lost it? I don't see why she's a 'bad example' to young women.

A) We can see most of her.

I think it's age and activity level. Muscle gain and skin elasticity.