Since when did being naturally smaller make you any less of a woman?
In a recent body confidence campaign, women who are counted as plus-size (but are actually in fact only from 12 to about 18's), speak about the unrealistic expectations placed on women by clothing companies.
Whilst I completely understand this and think that, yes, some shapes are less represented in the mainstream media than others; what is said next is enough to make my blood boil.
'If a smaller woman were to liken a larger one to a whale or an elephant, everyone would go mad. But somehow doing the same to a slimmer woman is OK. No-one minds.'
One girl uses the word 'stick-insect' to describe her smaller contemporaries.
The use of this word can hardly be called complementary. They're not saying these smaller, slimmer women are lithe, or beautifully lean - they're likening them to something ugly, unattractive and awkward.
If the reverse were true - people would be all over it. If a smaller woman were to liken a larger one to a whale or an elephant, everyone would go mad. But somehow doing the same to a slimmer woman is OK. No-one minds.
As a naturally skinny teenager, I can remember the injustice of girls being able to say I looked anorexic and unattractively thin - one girl even said no boy would ever sleep with me because I looked like 'I'd break in two' if they did - when I would never be able to make a similar comment to someone larger.
I wish all women - not just slim women - would stop having to insult a shape that's different to theirs just to champion another.
You might have a lovely, size 18, curvy figure. Good for you. But can you not equally admire a size 10 girl who has a completely different, but just as attractive figure - without the need to call them boyish, 'like a child' or unwomanly? I really hope so.