Is this ok?

It really annoys me too. Being overweight is just as unhealthy as being underweight. The girls in the top picture look happier, therefore sexier than the girls in the bottom picture.

I don't think beauty is a size, that's for sure. I think beauty is a number of things, but mostly it's about self-worth and confidence. It's about embracing what you've got and knowing that if you don't have a fantastic figure, you've got other things that make you beautiful. Like a wonderful smile, or a big heart.

Obviously, anyone is free to comment on pictures as they wish. I agree that if the tables were turned, there'd be far more outcry. It really annoys me on WP when people talk about the dresses looking rubbish on the "skinny-minny, not a real woman" model.

The girl in the bottom middle looks ill. Not "ill" in the way a green-eyed size 12 person says that a size 8 person looks "ill" (i.e. not really "ill"). But actually dangerously underweight. We should not be promoting this as a positive body image (even if she is this shape naturally).

The girl on the top left looks a little (not a lot, a little) on the "plus" side. I suspect she's far healthier than the ^^^ though.

But jeez, those tops girls haven't half got a set of bazookas between them. It gives me backache just looking at them. Perhaps this is why people think they are hotter?

or huge knockers...

No I don't think it's ok. I've seen a lot of this recently too, things like real women have curves. So what, if you're skinny you're somehow not a woman?

What I don't like is the girls in the top pic are made to look really natural when the girls in the bottom are made to look quite frankly like slappers!

Agree. The pictures aren't chosen to give a balanced view though!

It ruins the message if you use the following as your example skinny minny:

Urgghhhhhhhh I hate this kind of thing. Cheapening women to just their figures as if this is a worthwhile discussion to have.

Would they do this with Men? No. Of course not. It's frankly ridiculous.

More things that annoy me on facebook are those pictures saying stuff like My Son is my world. What is the point? I'm sure that you love your child very much but it does not make you a better mother posting this crap all over facebook. hurumph.....

No its not ok. I hate that slimmer women are depicted as ill, or not real etc. I'm not one of them, but I dont slate slim women either! I'm not that bitter!

I hate these things all over FB. My personal least favourite was one I saw this morning - a picture of a very ill man - Like if you hate cancer. Ignore if you want your parents to die of it.

Unfriended.

That is horrible thing to post on facebook! I don't blame you for unfriending. Is it chain letters where you have to forward message or whatever on to 20 other people or something horrible will happen. I remember receiving one when I was 11 and it really upset me (I was a bit sensitive when a child!)

Theyre just everywhere. Like if you love your mum, ignore if you hate her. Like if you respect this man, ignore if you have no heart.

Sometimes theyre chain ones. I just hate them all!!

I hate those 'like if this dog is cute and ignore if you want your family to die in a volocanoey-fire pit etc etc' wha is the point and which brainless tw @t started them?

I think women can look sexy either over or underweightt, it all depends on preference and how she carries herself, and the same is true with men. I think when it starts to get 'ill' looking or extreme either way, that becomes unattractive.

Not all skinny women are anorexic. But I hate this trend for celebrating overweight girls as "curvy" Not they are simply overweight. Neither is a better option IMO.

I almost posted about this not so long ago, it really really pisses me off! My inlaws always put things like this on facebook, in fact I think they 'like' the page. I find it quite offensive and as you say, it wouldn't be so well received if it was the other way round.

This appeared in my news feed ... It's not so much the image but the comment that is totally inappropriate!

Although I presume it's meant to be about not needing to starve yourself to look good I don't like it.

I went to school with someone who found it really hard to put on weight, she was naturally very slim/skinny. The poor girl hated it because she felt it made her look like a boy and people made comments about her or made jokes about her having an eating disorder. I can only imagine a picture like that would really upset someone in her position who would love to have more curves but finds it impossible.

Some people struggle to put weight on due to illness or whatever, and others have genuine disorders. My OH has a 26 or 28 inch waist (can't remember which one), which is a quite a lot smaller than me and he is constantly being asked if he is anorexic, bulimic etc, and NO he isn't, he actually eats like a pig! Even his parents have questioned him and when he was 18 before meeting me they 'monitored' him because they thought he was going to his room to puke after dinner! Ridiculous. No idea why he doesn't put the weight on, I reckon he just gives it to me instead

So it does happen to men as well as us women, but he just isn't bothered by it whereas a woman would be because of all the stereotypes of what makes a perfect woman etc. Load of sh*t. There's someone out there who will love you for who you are, regardless of how fat/skinny/busty/flat chested/spotty/flabby/ etc you are!

Rant over.

I don't think it's ok at all. I'm all for celebrating who you are, as long as you're healthy. The posted pic of the thin girls is far too extreme an example. Would be interesting to see reaction if they had compared with someone like Cameron Diaz or Gwyneth Paltrow. Or, as I think FL said, if it had been the other way around.

I also HATE the word 'skinny' when it's used as a positive term and even as a goal for weight loss. Skinny does not mean good.

I think they are more pleasing on the eye than skinny ladies who to me seem angular.

For myself, if I was 'curvier' I would look fat because I am so short and being skinny is not an option because I like food too much. Honestly, I wouldn't want to be either. I like being healthy and having a bit of muscle definition. Victoria Beckham's legs are not attractive IMO.

I really don't like the idea that a woman's weight/figure makes her more or less of a woman! A 'real woman' can be anything from a size 0 to 36+. How sexy a woman is is in the eye of the beholder not for brands etc to dictate to us.

I'm fat. I'm definitely NOT sexy.

Just in the interests of balance.

The girls in the bottom pic look unhealthy to me.

What gets my goat is people that are overweight and call themselves curvy, I have no problem with anyone being fat, thin whatever as long as they are healthy with it. If you are overweight you aren't curvy! Also, no one should ever be able to call anyone else 'less of a woman' because they are thin. I used to be really thin and my friends used to 'joke' about this because I only had a small chest. So annoying! I've filled out a bit now and actually feel better than when I was a size 8

Well in the interests of balance, I'm slim and I'm NOT sexy!

I agree, people shouldn't be so skinny they are unhealthy, just as people are discouraged from being too large that they are unhealthy. Why can't the world stop putting so much emphasis on size. I'm a size 8, everyone is jealous, and I'm really unfit and unhealthy (but trying to change that) and hate how I look. There really isn't a right or wrong in my opinion.