
dismissing well-tread historically-backed academic sociological theory as “the most terminally online bs” says a whole lot about you and next to nothing about the theory itself you can pick up a copy of Fearing The Black Body by Sabrina Strings if you want to get started with doing some actual learning on the roots of this phenomenon. you can even download it as a free audiobook with an Audible trial
it is sad that we have to look a certain way for society to not hate us or comment on our bodies if we wanna wear a crop top in the summer when it’s 100 degrees. You shouldn’t HAVE to lose weight to not get picked on. Losing weight should only come from within and it should come from a place of love not hatred
you demonstrably are the one here who doesn’t grasp what the term means, so let me help you out a little with a simplified definition from the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary when someone believes it to be an objective truth that clothing looks best on human bodies once those bodies cross a certain threshold of “skinny”, that is an extreme view about how bodies should look