How cool is this? It’s a documentary about the Brighton Rockers Roller Derby!
SHE’S SO SKINNY
SHE’S SO FAT
no one cares, dipshitThank you for this video!
I. Love. This. It is so true. Which body type you have, or how fast you metabolise food; those things have NOTHING TO DO WITH WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON.
I consider myself lucky, because my younger sister and I have opposing body types: she is an exctomorph (naturally skinny, very little fat, but even less muscle, finds it very easy to lose weight) and I am an excomorph (naturally rounder, more body fat, a LOT more muscle - at 15 stone I have only 25% body fat, the rest of that is muscle - but it’s almost impossible to lose weight. I get smaller, go down clothing sizes, but I always weigh a lot).
She and I have grown up with these differences, and it has been difficult for both of us. I was jealous because my sister was skinny, she was jealous because I have the traditional “hourglass” figure. But because we grew up with these issues it has allowed us to learn that how much body fat you have says nothing about you as a person, which is something that so many people in our society do not seem to understand.
However, that is not to say that we should be so worried about not hurting people’s feelings over their size that we fail to intervene when someone’s size becomes a life-threatening issue. If someone is just too skinny, or just too fat, then it is worth talking to them about it, because often there is more going on than just different body types (I say this coming from a family of people with over-eating disorders, which are eating disorders that really get ignored because y’know, people who eat compulsively are just greedy, right?)
Here’s one last thought:
I have been skinny. When I can fit into a size 10-12 dress I look ridiculous because I have very wide hips and very wide shoulders and a whole lot of muscle. I look like a female body builder, and that is not, personally, a look that I like.
I look better when I cater to my own body type. I am happy and confident in how I look. I might not look like the girls in magazines, but I love myself.
I wish more people could say the same.
