Stop body-shaming


Fat, skinny, big nose, wonky arms, 'weird' breasts... Both the media and regular ol' folks like all of us need to STOP body-shaming women. Unless you personally know Natalia Dyer, you know nothing. She could simply be naturally thin. But if she does happen to have an eating disorder, it's not going to be fixed by a bunch of lazy, judgmental IMDb users and their opinions. So STFU,

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Word.

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If IMDB could retweet... Consider this retweeted

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I literally came to this board just to see if anyone else noticed how thin she was.

Obviously many people agree if there is a post like this.

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Stop being so damn sensitive.

Every time anyone says anything these days, suddenly it's "shaming" and "triggering" and "micro-aggressions." Enough.

And let's not even pretend men are doing this -- women are by far more cruel and callous when it comes to criticizing how other women look. At least guys will say something up front if there's a problem...women will talk behind a person's back incessantly until it goes 'round in a game of telephone and turns into an episode of epic butthurt.

Just look at how brutal women are when they comment online about curvy actresses like Kaley Cuoco and Emilia Clarke. Guys aren't the ones doing that. We love curvy women. It's other women who are doing it, typing those cruel comments from behind their computers because they're jelly.

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Look, my sister is naturally thin, and also has Graves disease (hyperthyroidism). She's 5'8" and about 115 pounds. I also have a sister-in-law who has a high metabolism and struggles to maintain a weight of 100 pounds at 5 feet tall. So I know what "naturally thin" women look like. And they do not look like this:

http://www.gotceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/photos/natalia-dyer/stranger-things-premiere-in-los-angeles/Natalia-Dyer:-Stranger-Things-LA-Premiere--09-300x420.jpg

It's not a judgment on her character or her talent. It's not jealousy. It's frightening, and what's more frightening is that there are people who think this is something to aspire to. My sister is thin, very thin, but she doesn't look like a skeleton with skin draped over it the way this girl does. She isn't "thin", she's emaciated. If she doesn't have serious health issues, then she has an eating disorder. It's that simple.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.

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I'll say. She looks very unhealthy.

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Yep! She really is that thin.


My opinion does not really matter.

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This is what baffles me. You think she's unaware. You know what, I guarantee you she hates it. Probably thinks about it two hundred times a day, probably trying to fight it. The one thing I can say for sure is the comments don't help.

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