So I keep hearing the song, it’s terribly catchy and I must admit I quite liked it at first, until I actually heard it more and more and listened to the lyrics and then it simply made me quite cross!
I completely agree with some of the lyrics, but others I couldn’t disagree with more!
Body snark is widely written about amongst bloggers, George being one from ‘fuller figure, fuller bust’ (fullerfigurefullerbust.com - couldn't recommend this blog more!) and I must say, I had never heard the term before I read her blog but can completely and totally relate to it.
Us fat people have some kind of invisible protection, no one is allowed to call us fat or use derogatory terms, there’s lots of nice fluffy names for us, ‘curvy’, ‘voluptuous’ etc etc and yet it is deemed acceptable for us to call slimmer girls ‘sticks’, ‘ill’, ‘anorexic’ etc; how is this??
I completely understand that we are giving out wrong images to young girls, airbrushing magazine images, the peer pressure to be thin etc and this needs to stop but so does the slim girl hate, or being mean about anyone's shape/size, now defined as body snark.
So back to the bass…. I completely agree with ‘Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top’, but shouldn’t this apply to everyone? Why should we exclude slimmer girls from this, are they not beautiful too? Meghan Trainer then goes on to say, ‘My mama she told me don’t worry about your size’, again a very applause worthy statement, but to be backed up with, ‘I won’t be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll’. If you shouldn’t have to worry about your size – surely again this must include everyone, not people who are over weight.
While we’re on the topic…. What exactly is wrong with a Barbie doll? Didn’t we all play with them and love them as children? And silicone? What is wrong with that, if you are unhappy with your body and want to change it, it should be up to you and you should not be judged on it! I bet if I wanted a gastric band and lipo no one would write a song about not wanting to be me?
Why are we so mean? Why is it deemed acceptable to have pictures depicting a slim girl in a bikini with the caption ‘Only dogs like bones’, and the personal favourite, 'Real women have curves'. Yet we never see picture saying ‘Save the whales, harpoon a fat bird’? Are we saying that not all women are real? Are we saying that slimmer girls have no feelings, that we can say all these hurtful things and it’s fine? No I think not.
I can admit, it can be frustrating for someone with a lot of weight to lose, when a very slimmer lady says she is off to weight watchers or the gym to shed the extra pounds. For me personally I'm just jealous, I’d like to be in that position where I only had a few pounds left to lose, but one day that will be me (I hope!). But we shouldn’t admonish these people, slimmer people are allowed to feel uncomfortable in their body and want to tone up and lose weight too, we shouldn’t just look at someone and say ‘er no why do YOU want to lose weigh’, no one certainly ever asks me! If they want to make a change, they have every right, the same as anyone else.
C’mon girls, we are girls/ladies/women, whatever you want to call us – but shouldn’t we all stick together? We have enough negativity from people without turning on each other due to the way we look. Can we not just celebrate each other, no matter what size?
So no, I'm not all about the base and saddened that anyone is!
Oh to live in a perfect World….
TTFN, Sammy xx
Ps… I do know that us fat people are referred to in derogatory terms and this is not acceptable as well. But just because of this doesn’t mean we should be objective and horrible about anyone else. We know what it feels like – why would you ever want to make anyone else feel like that about themselves.
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