Yes, I agree with this, but it honestly rings a bit hollow after you'ver dismissed skinny shaming. First, as a mixed race woman who is thin and was rail thin as a child, teen and younger adult, equating fat shaming with racism is something that hits me a certain way. I don't agree with that.

That said, larger women do absolutely face discrimination, but that in no way minimizes anything a skinny woman may have experienced. It doesn't minimize the bullying. It doesn't minimize the assumptions about my personality, my health or my availability. it doesn't minimize the feelings of not having the ideal body because mine was too small. "Go eat a sandwich, you Annoreixic bitch," is just as bad as "Put down the fork." Both make incorrect assumptions and judgments based on body size, which at the end of the day, is nobody's business.

There's so much good in what you say. But to discount the very real experiences, painful experiences that those of us who live in smaller bodies have experienced to make the point is disappointing. My thinness isn't the problem. My body didn't create the problem. Not any more than any beautiful woman in a larger body did. We are all beautiful. We are all worthy. The problem I see is that you've bought into the capitalist brainwashing that tells us if one thing is right, the other has to be wrong. It's not an Us vs Them. Thin women are not your enemy, but it feels like you're (and I mean "you're" in the wider sense) painting us that way. Fat shaming is real. It's disgusting and wrong. The assumptions made about larger people are wrong, but don't dare tell me my experiences and my pain are invalid because I happen to tip the scale in the opposite direction, because they absolutely were and are. I have the scars to prove it, inside and out.