You’re absolutely right, there is a lot of fat acceptance going on on this blog. It’s what The Size Issue was started around, I’m not shy about saying that. My secondary goal is to reduce marginalization in the media.

I endorse all people loving themselves. You will NEVER find me endorsing talking down to people who are thin, or calling larger people ‘real’ to the detriment of others. But my point is to bring people who are not normally in the spotlight or who are degraded in the media some representation. So a cis white size 4 who is “a little pear shaped” will probably not be on here, because someone who is “a little pear shaped” can probably find lots of media imagery of themselves (and someone who is significantly bigger and not an hourglass will definitely find lots of pear-shaped people ON this blog and many others).

Additionally, there is a big difference between the kind of judgement made by society at large (not individuals, who can be very cruel) on the body of someone with a flat chest and the body of someone who is morbidly obese.  This doesn’t mean that judgement doesn’t hurt, even to the point of inducing severe insecurity — and it DEFINITELY doesn’t mean that person shouldn’t love themselves — but this blog exists to fight against systemic depersonalization.

Another reason that curvy people are on here more is: access. There is a very large movement of fat acceptance on Tumblr. “Skinny acceptance” is not an organized movement, at least, not one I’ve encountered. Remove anything with mention of weight loss, body hatred, “real women”, food deprivation, weight goals or other triggers in it (I distinctly avoid reposting pictures of ANYONE with these kinds of comments either), and that reduces it further. Right now the number of submissions this blog gets per month is at an average of about .0001, so my ability to reblog is all that keeps this going.

If you want to see more pictures of people like you, the best thing you can do is submit. There have definitely been short, tall, flat chested, muscular, etc bodies on here before. Disabled people, trans people. I will post anyone as long as they speak in an optimistic way about both their AND OTHERS’ bodies.

It’s hard for me to decide, honestly, what is best for my followers. I am one person and I run this as a side blog. The last thing I want to do is trigger anyone, and without reader input that is hard to decide (please write in!). Many of the blogs I’ve followed in the past that posted all body types have been very triggering in a number of ways. I don’t think that thin bodies by themselves are triggering, but I do think the nature of the discourse around fat and thin can go there very quickly.

I do appreciate the need for diversity, believe me.