I said "other". Yes, it's normal not to find thigh gaps particularly appealing. It sounds like you have a pretty healthy idea of what your body looks like and "should" look like.
As such, thinspo isn't *for* you. Yes, thinspo is unhealthy, but you don't catch anorexia or bulimia from tumblr or weheartit. If you're obsessing over those images, there's already something wrong. It's complicated, and it varies a lot from person to person, but eating disorders have deeper roots than just wanting to be thin.
I'm talking about eating disorders right now because people with eating disorders, like me, are who those images are for. You don't have to have an eating disorder to run a thinspo or pro ana page, exactly, (or at least, your eating disorder can be subclinical), but by and large, those images are being collected, tagged, and obsessed over by people who are already ill.
As for why it's such a big deal, I'm not really sure how to answer that. I've been bulimic for about ten years now. Of course it's a big deal. There are a lot of things that can contribute to that: parents who overemphasise thinness or healthy eating in an unhealthy way during childhood, feeling that food is the only thing that I can really control, feeling that my body doesn't belong to me, autism spectrum disorders, etc. It's complicated.
Is it normal to find "Thigh Gaps" Unattractive?
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I said "other". Yes, it's normal not to find thigh gaps particularly appealing. It sounds like you have a pretty healthy idea of what your body looks like and "should" look like.
As such, thinspo isn't *for* you. Yes, thinspo is unhealthy, but you don't catch anorexia or bulimia from tumblr or weheartit. If you're obsessing over those images, there's already something wrong. It's complicated, and it varies a lot from person to person, but eating disorders have deeper roots than just wanting to be thin.
I'm talking about eating disorders right now because people with eating disorders, like me, are who those images are for. You don't have to have an eating disorder to run a thinspo or pro ana page, exactly, (or at least, your eating disorder can be subclinical), but by and large, those images are being collected, tagged, and obsessed over by people who are already ill.
As for why it's such a big deal, I'm not really sure how to answer that. I've been bulimic for about ten years now. Of course it's a big deal. There are a lot of things that can contribute to that: parents who overemphasise thinness or healthy eating in an unhealthy way during childhood, feeling that food is the only thing that I can really control, feeling that my body doesn't belong to me, autism spectrum disorders, etc. It's complicated.