/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

People should be encouraged to love themselves and to love their bodies but I think the concept of loving your body has become distorted.

If a lady is of size and is genuinely happy, then that's great for her. There's no excuse for bringing someone down just because you don't like the way they look.

Just as if a lady happens to have minimal body fat or a high metabolism or any reason to be very very thin then it's unfair to label her as anorexic, or bulimic or otherwise inflicting herself.

There's a lot of variety in the human body in metabolism, cholesterol levels, hormones, emotions, especially so in women. We have the biological disadvantage where are bodies are geared to be squishy and protective of their contents.

But loving your body should mean that you love taking care of it.

And there are no benefits to being overweight.

You know...there are people that find a bountiful rolling landscape attractive and as much as I don't agree that's okay too. There will always be someone that finds you attractive...somewhere....in some corner of the world.

But there aren't any benefits. Not to clothes shopping, not to your health, no to your emotional well being. Because even if we ignore the media fat shaming, all the fat shaming that goes on and is encourage on here, all the looks you get when you sit down to eat out or walk into a store and everyone knows you're not going to fit into anything in that store that isn't elasticated. The majority of fat women eat themselves up internally and drowning them selves in self pity about how they're so upset.

Then they spend time going on the internet trying to make a pro-fat movement disguised as a love-your-body movement. Encouraging diversity of body types. And for a brief shining moment feel like they've achieved something. Really ladies, if you do this, stop. Go do some sit ups.