I wonder when girls are going to realize that being thin isn’t the key to happiness.

Having a flat stomach isn’t going to stop other people from making fun of you. Having a thigh gap isn’t going to stop you from getting hurt and getting your heart broken. Weighing 100 pounds isn’t going to make you love yourself.

If you hate your body and lose weight just to be accepted, you’ll never be satisfied. You’ll consistently find new things to hate about yourself, never being comfortable in your own skin.

I’ll never understand where people got this ridiculous idea that thin=happy. You can be happy at any size, as long as you love yourself.

Wake up.

Lately I’ve been thinking about the double standard that occurs between thin women and heavy set women.

It seems to me that heavy set women are allowed to be insecure when it comes to their bodies. Whenever they post a full body pictures of themselves saying what they don’t like, hundreds of thousands of people jump in to tell them how beautiful and strong they are. However if a thin woman were to post a picture of HER body stating what she didn’t like, it would be said that she was fishing for compliments.

Since when did being thin erase any insecurities or body issues? That’s silly.

I truly believe that every woman is beautiful, but that doesn’t mean every woman feels beautiful. Who are you to tell somebody that they can’t be insecure? Everyone has issues with their own body.

For me, I know I’m not fat, but I still don’t like the way my body looks. That isn’t me fishing for compliments, it’s telling MY blog what I don’t like.

People hold so many double standards.

How in the world does somebody think they have the right to mock somebody for the way he/she looks? Looks fade. Everybody’s looks fade. Honestly, they don’t matter at all to me, and they shouldn’t matter to anybody else either.

Now of course I understand that when dating becomes involved, you need to be attracted to your partner, that’s a given. However treating someone poorly just because you don’t find them aesthetically pleasing is repulsive.

Girls, if you are happy with the way you look, fuck everybody else. Your opinion is the only one that matters. Don’t starve yourself because you aren’t a size double zero, or because your thighs touch, or because your stomach isn’t perfectly flat, just stop it. I can promise that you all have beautiful features, whether you think so or not.

It just baffles me that people think it’s okay to tear somebody’s self esteem down for no reason at all. Who are you to tell somebody they’re ugly? Who are you to tell somebody they’re fat? You’re fucking nobody.

I’d rather be called ugly or fat than dumb/simple minded/shallow/ignorant any day of the week.