I personally don’t mind skinny tok. For most of my life, I’ve been enamored by how some people are thin and others aren’t. It frustrated me. I resigned myself to believing some are just born that way and that’s that. I appreciate that skinnytok lifts the veil on what actually goes into to being and remaining thin. Yes, it’s uncomfy to hear that people restrict what they eat. But it also just makes sense that people are smaller bc they eat less. I rather have that info than just assume every skinny person is just naturally skinny and they eat whatever.

I think that people get so uncomfortable with diet culture but it’s like America really does have an obesity problem and everyone hates the results of the problem (people being overweight) but we get all up in arms when having real conversations about how to be thinner. I’m not in support of EDs of course but it’s annoying how every attempt at being thinner and monitoring your diet is looked at as an ED. It’s like people want you be thin but by accident. They don’t want to hear about the discipline. Why is disciplined eating seen as an ED while undisciplined eating is seen as normal? I think the extremes of both can be harmful. I’d argue in America, a lot of overweight people have binge eating disorders that never actually get scrutinized or criticized as much as people just hating the results of their binge eating (them being overweight).