Granny’s A-Z – F is for Fat Shaming

Things that make us go poop…

Granny and the ‘ladies’ darts team of The Dog and Trumpet alphabetically collate their collective contempt for the inhabitants of the twenty-first century.

F is for: Fat Shaming

Why are some people only happy when they are disrespecting others? How is it okay to look at someone’s picture on antisocial media and pronounce them overweight?

It’s a symptom of a serious societal failing. 

How has it gained such a toehold?

The collective theory of three elderly women who wear their bodies however it suits them, is that the body police need to eff off and eat some cake. 

However, there is currently an unhealthy obsession with body shape, which is largely fuelled by ‘reality tv’, men with twisted agendas, and the diet industry.

Let’s look at these factors one by one.

Example A: We recently saw a female reality tv ‘star’, on some pointless red carpet or other, so extremely corseted that she could barely walk unaided and seemed scarcely able to breathe. 

What the actual f*** is all that about? And what sort of image is it selling to the young and vulnerable?

That how you look is everything?

That it’s worth causing yourself pain and possible injury in order to look as though you have a handspan waist? Because it makes you feminine and beautiful?

Yeah, right. Not. 

This sort of look is all about female subjugation, making women physically frail and mentally suggestible. Do we really want to return to the era of ‘the vapours’ and women fainting right, left and centre?

If we believe the current crop of shape police, that would represent the ideal of female beauty. That or exhibiting the appearance of a prepubescent boy.

If your body falls naturally into either camp (though the very tiny waist is unlikely in the extreme), then enjoy it. 

Example B: This takes us back to those self-defined alpha males with their lack of chins, lack of empathy, and complete disregard for women. These guys are oh so willing to tell us about their exacting standards for bedmates. Which should be a relief for anyone who doesn’t meet the blueprint. Ignore them. Aside from the insulting level of arrogance, it’s also worth wondering whether these guys will be as poorly endowed in the love-making department as they are in the thinking dept. It would be such a waste of life to try and change one’s body shape for seven seconds of ineptitude.

Example C: Women need to take diet pills (and suffer stomach cramps and diarrhoea), or fast ‘intermittently’(and be hungry and grumpy), or have some ‘simple’ surgery (and take the inevitable risk). 

Yeah, course we do. Not.

These greedy bar-stewards need ignoring and starving of financial incentives. 

If a young woman has a perfectly normal girlie body – even, perish the thought, featuring a little bit of a belly – then nobody has the right to tell her she should change her body shape to meet their standards. She needs to look them straight in the avatar and tell them politely, but firmly, to f*** right off!