Gross response to photo exposes fashion double standard
A photo going viral online has exposed a wild double standard that still exists and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
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The double standard that plus-size women experience when it comes to being seen as fashionable has been exposed in a single tweet.
In 2020, well before we’d all had a Brat Summer and Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelce, someone tweeted a photo of two women walking down the street wearing shorts and T-shirts.
It is not a particularly interesting photo.
a tweet making fun of these women has 100k likes but i swear to god if bella hadid wore this exact outfit it would be on a million "80s casual inspo â¤ï¸" pinterest boards bc, as always, fashion is judged exclusively by the bodies that wear it pic.twitter.com/eBZ6P3Zrmh
— rayne fisher-quann (@raynefq) July 14, 2020
Somehow, it ended up on the wrong side of X, and people mocked them for their fashion and bodies.
It was grim.
Their outfits were and are objectively trendy.
Both women were rocking an eighties vibe. It is a very on-trend look, and they were wearing slightly long shorts and over-size T-shirts tucked in.
Things took a positive turn when Rayne Fisher, who has over 80,000 followers on the platform, reposted the photo and pointed out an uncomfortable truth.
“A tweet making fun of these women has over 100k likes, but I swear to god, if Bella Hadid wore this exact outfit, it would be on a million ‘80s casual inspiration boards,” she wrote.
“As always fashion is judged exclusively by the bodies that wear it.”
That tweet amassed over 400,000 likes.
She elaborated further in the chain, stating she’s seen these types of outfits all over social media platforms like TikTok and Pinterest and they’d been met with praise.
“This goes without saying, but these fits are fire, and they look cute, and you look like them. You should not be afraid to dress like this,” she wrote.
“The last thing I will is please stop replying to this and saying fat people shouldn’t tuck their shirts in. It is gross and we don’t police fashion based on the bodies that wear it. Everybody looks good with their shirt tucked in.”
People were quick to agree.
“My first thought when I saw this photo the first time was the fit on the first lady would be idolised on a skinny body and I got mad,” one wrote.
“Society really treats fat people like shit. I used to be fat an no one would compliment me or say nice things ever,” another shared.
“I could wear this outfit and my 6 foot friend who is stick thin could wear the exact thing and people would make fun of me and praise her,” someone admitted.
Someone else shared a photo of supermodel Gigi Hadid wearing a similar outfit and argued that it is only “appreciated” because she’s thin.
Fast-forward to now, and Ms Fisher’s tweet remains depressingly relevant.
Australian Demi Lynch, who runs the independent and feminist media publication Kaleidoscope News, reposted that tweet yesterday on her Instagram, where she has over 18,000 followers.
Ms Lynch uses her various popular social media accounts to discuss body image issues and describes herself as an advocate for “fat liberation”.
She reposted that tweet because she was commenting on another trend and the commentary surrounding it.
Ms Lynch told news.com.au that we still live in an “anti-fat” society.
“Fat people are still deemed unworthy, unattractive and even unloveable,” she explained.
“So of course they’re not taken seriously when it comes to fashion.”
She explained that even the way clothes are marketed to women exposes this.
“When brands market clothes to women, they often use the words slimming and flattering as ways to entice potential customers,” she said.
“They know women don’t want to look bigger in their clothes, they always want to look smaller.”
There’s been recent reports that the camel toe is back, which is basically when you’re pants are so tight, you can see the outline of your vagina.
It’s often been seen as a fashion disaster rather than a win, but apparently, now, it’s cool, trendy and edgy, and we all need to get on board.
Ms Lynch reposted the trend and wrote, “Yet another trend that apparently only looks ‘good’ on skinny people.”
The Aussie then reshared Fisher’s original tweet from four years ago and added: “Trends like this always remind me of this tweet.”
Ms Lynch then posted a poll on her account and asked her followers, “Do you find certain outfits or trends only acceptable or hot if seen on thin people?”
94 per cent of people responded with yes.
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