Feminist, Fat and Fabulous blog: Don’t Tell Me What I Can Wear

You know what I’m sick of? Websites and TV programs masquerading as giving women empowering style tips, when they’re really using body shaming language, rigid style ‘rules’, oh, and, other people’s photos without permission!

A plus sized blogger was contacted recently and asked to contribute to this article that was being written on a website. It was based on unflattering clothing for fat women and used photos (again, WITHOUT PERMISSION) to illustrate their point. The photos were sourced from the Fatshionista flickr pool. Once this blogger read about the article and looked at the website, she was insulted and disgusted. And told everyone.

Fatty internet users mobilise! And they did. The amount of people who have jumped up and joined this cause is astounding and kind of heart warming. Within a day, the website took the photos and the article down. (However, your tireless blogger has found a google cache version).

I really don’t want to link to their website and provide them with more hits (much like a certain vicious gossip columnist I refuse to click on or ever link to), but I feel people should know about it – it’s called BBSize.com and here is the direct link to the page the article was on.  To use an internet term – you’re doing it wrong. So very wrong.

Fat women, skinny women, in-between women, people who identify as women, should be able to dress however the hell they want to dress, in whatever the hell they want to dress in. Style (and I use the term loosely) websites who give insulting, paternalistic, and quite frankly, wrong advice, should, in using another internet term, STFU.