Alright, rant ahead. Strap in.

There’s a disturbing trend going on and it’s really unacceptable.

Firstly, I’m all for body positivity.

#HealthAtEverySize and all that.

And it’s quite nice actually to have a big butt in a time when the booty is praised.

A mixture of heavy squats and good genes and suddenly songs like “All about that bass” and “Anaconda” are praising you.

I didn’t have big boobs when big boobs were in
I didn’t have a flat stomach when skinny was in

But now, curvy girls unite!!

And it’s everywhere in our culture

Twerking
The slow exaggerated squat to the floor any time you need to pick something up
Shoving your butt into a guys crotch on the dance floor to let him know what he can look forward to…

The curvy girls grew up and decided “Hey, we’re actually hot, and we’re owning it”

Excellent.

However…

The other side of the coin here is that it’s apparently not enough to praise us ladies blessed with the big booty, oh no.

Now we have to fight back at the ‘skinny bitches’

^^^ THIS is my issue

I wonder if these ladies have considered that

calling out these so called ‘skinny bitches’ makes it seem that they’re actually still insecure about their size

if you were truly 100% comfortable with your body you wouldn’t need to pick on those that don’t ‘fit’ the current desired body shape.

It’s not enough to tell them that they’re too skinny either

Oh no

You gotta tell them that no man will ever want them

“He likes something he can grab”
“My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hun”
“Boys like more booty to hold at night”

^^^ on a side note, Megan Trainor, I bet your Mum didn’t actually say that to you, cos if she did…bit inappropriate perhaps?

Bottom line here,

#HealthAtEverySize and the body positive movement

DOES NOT MEAN

let’s pick on skinny girls cos we all remember that they used to pick on us.

Big booty
Small booty
No booty

How about we focus on celebrating the body that we have?

Our perception of ourselves follows us throughout our life,

women on diets for most of their lives

women spending their lives in the gym working towards that ‘perfect’ body because someone has convinced them that they’re not good enough

frantically googling ‘how to get thin/toned/curvy”

spending all their valuable energy on trying to make themselves better when all we need to do is support each other.

Body Positivity is about reminding ourselves and each other that we all deserve respect, love and acceptance, whatever we look like.

If you feel insecure about your size it’s time to face your insecurity and become who you want to become,

because

its unacceptable to internalise that and try to make others feel as bad as you do.

If this movement is all about making a group of people feel bad, you can keep your body positivity

I don’t want anything to do with it.

Ainzlie

P.s – If you want to change your body shape, do it from a place of positivity and power. I’m not here to tell you that you’re not good enough. If you want to find your confidence along with the body you want, get in touch. Let’s make you the best version of you – not a version of someone else.