stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?
OP is addressed to the people doing it, but im reblogging for the bystanders: reminder that these people aren’t on your side just because they say bad things about bad people, and disagreeing with them doesn’t mean you’re siding with bad people
There is a second part to bodyshaming that I feel also needs drawing attention to, so I made a slight addition to the picture:
the problem with body shaming isn’t just calling certain traits ugly. The problem is that you associate, or reinforce associations, of morality to these traits.
Making fun of a rich person for being fat isn’t just wrong because you shouldn’t be calling fat people ugly. It’s wrong because it’s reinforcing stereotypes about fat people being gluttonous, associating fatness with being exploitative and cruel.
This is coincidentally also why any body positivity movement focusing on broadening the category of “beautiful/normal” fails because being considered beautiful isn’t the fucking point, it’s that you should be treated with dignity regardless of your physical appearance, disability, etc. That these traits are morally neutral.
There’s a long tradition of associating “ugliness” with evil and we’re not gonna reach any kind of liberation as long as we participate in that.
