I remember being in a group of friends, and we were talking about something or the other when a girl walked by, and as she left one of my friends said, “Look how skinny she is.” Another girl there (I wasn’t too close to her) said, “Yeah, I think she’s anorexic.”

This was a while back (4+ years), but I keep on thinking about it. We often hear about the negative effects the media has upon people, and the unhealthy desire to be skinny—but I feel that this glorification of thinness has evolved into a generalized anti-skinny mindset.

If people are skinny, they’re anorexic and should eat more. People say things like ‘real women have curves’, implying that skinny people are somehow alien and abnormal.

Anyone have thoughts on this? Or is it just me?

Topics: health, weight, culture, society, discrimination