Sure, and it is sad either way. Size numbers are so varied and arbitrary across countries - and so is the term “plus sized”, which is just loosely thrown around at random women who aren’t as skinny as models.
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I completely understand what Amy is trying to say, but can we also acknowledge how sad it is that young girls (who aren’t plus sized) even thinking that they might be plus sized is considered bad for their self esteem?
lol at “strawmanning” - the oblivious go-to for any such arguments. Maybe you’ve just seen this post now, but there were at least 4 more incredibly stupid/racist comments that I personally flagged.
Only on this white feminist website would you get people advocating for colonialism instead of actually showing sympathy with the victims.
Yay for colonialism, amirite!
You mean the same “western ideals” that made French troops force little girls and women in the Central African Republic to have sex with dogs and a variety of other sexual violence?
You’d think by now women on Jezebel would have figured out a way to sympathise with oppressed non-western women without wishing for their imperialist filled with western-ideals glory days back.
Um, if you study history or even bother to google, you’ll know it’s true. Ethiopians and Indians have had connections from the 9th Century A.D. Dravidians are historically mixed with Ethiopians. Some were brought to the Deccan as slaves in the medieval times (thought it wasn’t racial) and one of them famously rose in…
That is the truth, but are you just going to pretend centuries of colonialism that had its basis in the supremacy of whiteness doesn’t really factor into it? Sure, fair skin indicates that you’re rich and you spend your time indoors, just like bound feet did in China. BUT, White skin in media, in the culture and IRL…