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A long time gripe of mine has been that women tend to respond with a “thank you” whenever told that that they “look skinny” or like they’ve “lost weight.” It breaks my heart because it’s symptomatic of a greater cultural narrative about beauty. Being told you’re thin is not a compliment. It’s a physical state of being. One that is a spectrum, I might add, that keeps getting dangerously smaller and smaller until women are so tiny that they barely exist at all.

What I’m saying is, I appreciate this post. Immensely. Because yes, just yes.

I write about body image because women are always complimenting each other by saying, “You look like you lost weight!” and because it’s so hard to think that what you are is already enough.