Eostre wrote:acidreflux wrote:
y'all seen the "minus size can't use plus size base or items!!" discourse? it's both hilarious and so fucking predictable.
also minus size? ..... okay
was exhausting read.
gave me of "everything becomes about how it fits into the tool you want use to spread and not the message itself"
like I can see those having in real discourse on sizing, weight, body image, , how people are percieved in , etc. but where you can reach people sorta gets lost in the outrage of "everything has to be politically correct or you're cancelled," and you have to follow the site norm that only lets you dress up as how you look irl, so within site culture it probably makes sense but idk if it will do them any favors in the long-run. Idk if it is creating and normalizing more body types or if it is ingrained in fear-culture.
idk what a minus size is tho because I would assume you have a size that start somewhere and it would be size and idk if it needs to be a minus there. That's probably a question in itself. Idk if changing around sizing would change how we percieve it. Minus sizes to me feels like "extremely skinny" , like in you're below any regular sizes. And maybe those exist on the plus size too even tho it probably is just the opposite of "plus" being "minus" that put that term down. but yeah, like assuming this discourse is supposed a positive outcome -- yeah i don't have the phd for this.
As a person who weighs 40% more than my "healthy"/recommended weight, I'll be honest and say I was very uncomfortable with all of the plus size discussions on ES. I also saw more than a few takes I very much disagreed with but didn't dare comment on, because even if you're part of a "marginalized" group or part of a group that is discussed you'll get called privileged and/or in any other way be invalidated for your opinion, if you don't agree with the popular opinion.