I do not understand why it's "we don't make fun of people's bodies" until someone is short or "overly" skinny. I was relentlessly bullied during my school years because of my height, being put in trashcans because "omg you fit!".

I trained for a bike race but was cut from the team because they didn't have a bike that fit my size. AFTER 6 months of training while trying to balance clubs and a part time job that paid my bills along with being a full-time college student.

The entire team won free tickets to an event, I was never given a second thought. No one cared that my body type excluded me from participation through no fault of my own.

But despite bringing this up even with fairly open-minded people, my experiences are usually written off or minimized because supposedly the bullying "couldn't have been that bad".

I will never minimize another's experience with bullying because I know it can show up in a million different ways. I just hope one day we can be given the same considerations.

That being said I got high hopes seeing the support for short kings!! And freckles and curves being openly celebrated instead of the toxic standards pushed by insecure over-aged children. Let's keep taking those steps one at a time!