Anyone with a radio in their car has probably heard Meghan Trainor’s newest body positive hit single, “All About That Bass.” Though is it really positive towards all sizes? Or just the mid-waisted curvy girls seen in Meghan’s video. The main issue with the song is a verse addressing skinny ****es. Trainor defends herself by saying, “I think they stopped listening after they heard “skinny *****es” and didn’t hear the part about, “Nah, I’m just kidding, I know even you guys think you’re fat, and I’m here to say you’re perfect.” I have beautiful skinny friends that destroy themselves in the mirror because they don’t think they’re perfect. Many people stopped listening after the word ‘*****es’ and respond, ‘Screw this Meghan girl! She just bashed us!’ But no, I was just trying to say everyone was beautiful in their own way.”
Though even if it was just some lyrical candy to entice people into talking about her new song, people do think this way. Naturally thin girls exist and always will, making them feel miserable about how they look because of a stupid trope is idiotic, yet we see it all the time. “Ten Super-Skinny Celebs that Need a Big Mac!” “Real Men like Curvy Girls, Only Dogs Chase After Bones” or “No I Don’t Wear a Size 0, but that’s because I have the Body of a Woman, Not a 12-year-old Boy” just to point out a few. Men drooling over Nicki Minaj’s or Kim Kardashian’s more “natural” curvature when each has had hundreds of operations, injections, and treatments to look that way is no better than idolizing the thin girls that walk the runway.
We need to realize that both body types on the extreme spectrum have the potential for health complications and mental disorders, and no one has any right to tell anyone else how she should look. You would never tell a large woman to stop eating burgers so why is it any more acceptable to tell a small one she should eat a burger? Why do we have to shame certain body types to make others seem more acceptable? We should just accept everyone for how they look and how they act and call it a day.