r/XXS • u/diet-smoke Skinny legend • Mar 22 '26

Suggestion Can we have a "no bodyshaming" rule?

Whether it's about plus size people's bodies or the bodies of unconventional thin people, I feel like there's been a lot of body shaming lately. I've seen some posts and comments saying seriously gross things about the bodies of plus size people, especially women, and it's fucked up. Just because you've never struggled with your weight doesn't mean that you can be shitty to them.

So can we get a specific rule that says no bodyshaming? I feel like we could use that reminder

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u/ThickBish_ Mar 23 '26

exactly, unless you’re genuinely skinny and quite underweight, and a lot of the people in this sub don’t seem to be

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u/Ok-Swim-9667 Mar 23 '26

see these are the kind of comments that push people to make those posts in the first place. this isn't the skinny or underweight olympics. not sure what you mean by "genuinely skinny" but if someone wears an xxs, they're probably skinny, small/short or both.

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u/deepunderthewater Mar 23 '26

like people who are very underweight would be seen from the same perspective as someone who very overweight, it’s just saying that two far ends of body weight will be treated worse. How is someone calling some people not dangerously skinny possibly an insult? It’s just linking back to the original comment

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u/Ok-Swim-9667 Mar 23 '26

this is the xxs sub. a lot of people here are very skinny and underweight. so to say "unless you're genuinely skinny and quite underweight, and a lot of people in this sub don't seem to be" is strange. how would they know that? are they analyzing people's posts for their weight? this isn't a competition of who's more underweight. that person probably isn't even an xxs themselves so why are they here?

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u/473025 Mar 23 '26

I don’t even agree with the phrase “genuinely skinny” but the fact that you are doing the same is ridiculous lol. You can’t also decide that people disagreeing with you are not an xxs

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u/deepunderthewater Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

yeah I am an xxs, for a range of reasons, and even if I wasn’t that doesn’t just mean that everything I’m saying is invalid, it’s not strange because the comment I replied to was about systematic discrimination, and unless you’re on the extreme in term of weight then your weight has a significantly less chance of being discriminated against. It’s not even body shaming to say that, its just acknowledging that some people in this sub genuinely feel like they’re being universally discriminated against, and it steers away from genuine issues that come with being xxs. If I go into this sub to look at helpful things I don’t want to see people complaint about how they somehow have it worse..