Body Shaming Was Better

Since Chrissy Teigen’s stretch mark selflie, hordes of other hens have posted photos of their stretch marks to Instagram. It doesn’t take much for chicks these days to self congratulate themselves. Posting pictures of your spent tampon is always an efficient way to stick it to your step father or that TGI Friday’s manager who paid you the same as your male counterparts. I hadn’t realized you deserved a pat on the back for rapidly changing your body weight. Doctors would even advise against it. I’m confused. It seems there are entire aisles of products aimed at getting rid of stretch marks. If those fail just pretend they’re cool. Pretty soon I’ll be posting stern faced photos of my beer gut in the name of alcoholism and rocking a blue ribbon for liver cancer. Some women have stretch marks. I get it. People have hemorrhoids too. At what point do you keep it to yourself? I’d be willing to bet all these chicks at some point felt irrationally insecure about them. I’d feel insecure about these photos as well. There’s a middle ground. It’s called other people.

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