It is so frustrating to me that anyone would dare to compare these things. Was being told to eat a hamburger upsetting? Yes. Did I feel triggered by the scrutiny and objectification of my body? Yes. But when I recovered from my eating disorder and started living in a fat body, even as someone who was close to fat people and knew some of what to expect… I can’t begin to tell you how different it is, even just emotionally.

I think the problem is that we are trying to put labels on different types of body shaming, when it shouldn’t be that deep. What’s more detrimental is going to be a factor of the individuals involved and their situations, and cannot just be derived from the argument you made above. While logical, I don’t think it’s a proper metric for analyzing this type of pain - just my 2 cents

Yeah, having the perspective of a skinny person, very skinny growing up, and then my mom who was obese and seeing how she was treated, especially by the medical world ... definitely different. It's sad when you realize that someone may look at you and just decide that you have an eating disorder but, from my pov, what my mom went through as an overweight woman was way worse. So many assumptions are made about people based on weight 😔

If we wanna be super honest here, women, fems, and pre-transition/“non passing” afabs get brunt of fatphobia. It is very heavily intertwined with misogyny. After I transitioned, I still get looks, I still feel the anxiety and the trauma of being in public as a fat girl. But people don’t say shit to me, cuz they see a man. People don’t yell things at me from their car, or insult me when I walk past them, or laugh at me when I eat in public, or tell me how much prettier I’d be if I lost weight.

I understand what you’re saying but this isn’t a reason to continue skinny shaming. Saying ‘skinny shaming isn’t as bad as fat phobia’ isn’t a reason that a skinny person shouldn’t be alllwed to talk their truth. Honestly I’m tired of seeing the comparison .. it’s almost as if our experience of being body shamed is being invalidated because ‘it’s isn’t as bad’ That’s not the point … I’ll still talk about it and me talking about it doesn’t take away from the experience that ‘fat’ people have .