Fat shaming sucks. No fat folk should feel uncomfortable in their own skin, and no one should EVER criticize another person for being obese.

Thincels, the only proper responses to fat shaming is sympathy, sorrow and rage. Even if you don’t participate in fatphobia, **If you do not oppose it YOU ARE FATPHOBIC** and you are part of the problem.

It is not okay to follow a story of fat shaming with: “I know how you feel,” and rattle off a story of being skinny shamed. Skinny shaming is not equivalent to being fat shamed. Both may be body shaming. Both may make a person feel shitty. But skinny people play romantic leads. Fat people most often play sidekicks. Society elevates one and relegates the other to second-class status.

Skinny people have PRIVILEGE and they need to own up to it. Being skinny shamed is NOTHING compared to being fat shamed.