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stupidityinmyhead wrote in saying the following:

”Women do not need to be SKINNY. But we DO need to be healthy. Articles, media etc. encouraging unhealthy people to stay overweight and unhealthy in order to “be comfortable with themselves” annoy me just as much as the media encouraging weight loss.

Eating healthy does NOT equal a diet where you have to starve yourselves and live on carrots and lettuce and work out for 8 hours a day. It means staying active, resting and eating what you want without completely living on McDonald’s.

Why is it that people only see the two extremes (skinny, ED’s vs fat, unhealthy etc.) and not the middle position of this argument? “

I personally will not comment on this one. The only reason being because I want to make this an open forum for you to voice your own opinion on what was said. If I say more I’ll muddle the begining opinion. Ready… GO!

Here’s the thing. Yes, eating disorders of any sort are indeed unhealthy. However, it is not anyone’s fucking business what a person does or does not put in their mouth.

”Women do not need to be SKINNY. But we DO need to be healthy. Articles, media etc. encouraging unhealthy people to stay overweight and unhealthy in order to “be comfortable with themselves” annoy me just as much as the media encouraging weight loss.”

I get what you’re attempting to get across here, but being annoyed at people encouraging self-love is… Detrimental. You realize you’re saying that people should not feel good about their body if it isn’t healthy?

How is that up to you? What gives you the right to judge others so harshly? How are you against the media encouraging weight loss when you are stating that it is “annoying” to encourage people to love themselves as they are?