“She said ‘I like giants
Especially girl giants
Cause all girls feel too big sometimes
Regardless of their size’”i think these are two separate issues to be fair. but you’ve both covered them pretty well. all women shouldn’t be made to feel fat, because not all women ARE fat. but fat isn’t a bad thing to be.
What a perfect quotation to throw at me. I love that song. (“I Like Giants” by Kimya Dawson you guyses.)
I guess I’m saying no women should be made to feel inferior at all, but especially not with the word “fat” if that has the double-whammy effect of making them feel bad and stitching and doublestitching “fatness” as an irrevocably negative thing. Because that gives fat people the same misery twofold. It turns other women into agents of fat women’s oppression without them even realising it.
I rebloged the original post because I thought it was interesting but I certainly felt a bit of disagreement creeping in. It bothers me when people don’t recognise size privilege and yes, we are all attacked daily and made to feel like our bodies are not good enough, but fatter people certainly cop a lot more truly nasty and overt treatment.
I hope that makes sense, my eyes are falling out of my head I’m so tired.
Anyway, I mostly wanted to reblog this for the Kimya Dawson lyric because when I first heard this song it really spoke to me. I’m pretty tall, since I was a kid I was usually taller and bigger than most of my friends, and so many times I have felt like a giant. On occasions I played it up, but I have felt sad and self-loathing plenty of times because I’m not a small, petite woman that someone can scoop up in an embrace. There’s this overwhelming pressure for women to minimise themselves in our screwed up world, and even though my broad stance and imposing physical presence is handy, I have desperately wanted to be covered and protected and wrapped up. When you’re feeling low and needing care, knowing you can’t be physically covered is salt in the wound.