It's Ranting Time!

So it's been a while.

I've been trying to only really update this when I have something at least halfway interesting to talk about.  That doesn't happen much often, but hey... I'm terribly boring.

I was thinking about this blog not too long ago and how I hadn't updated it in a while... and how it's name is "Fueled by Rage and Caffeine" and while I absolutely adore that name, I haven't been ranty lately.  It's probably a combination of my medication and my want to try not to be so melodramatic.  I just don't let the things that bothered me once upon a time bother me as much as they used to anymore.

However... there's some things that are really starting to bother me lately and it's things like this, things that SHOULDN'T be happening at all that really light that old flame of anger flare up.

Everyone knows what body shaming is.  It's when you tell a person that the way their body is happens to be wrong.  For a long time (and I'm sure it's still happening) bigger people were getting the brunt of this force.  "You should really lose some weight"; "Look at how terrible and fat that person is", for some examples.  It's a terrible thing to do and a terrible thing to say to people and I love the fact that people are standing up to this and telling others how awful of a human being they are for doing it.  But there's a new kind of body shaming that's been happening in the gaming community something hardcore.  It's kind of always been there, but it's REALLY coming out now.

"Sexy video game characters are not realistic"

Okay.  While some of the games do take it a bit far, to try and tell me that skinny girls with big (natural) boobs don't exist is by far the biggest lie I could ever hear.  They exist.  People know they exist... but they've been deemed "non-realistic".  How does that make the thin women with "large assets" feel?  Now they're subhuman.  Less than human because their proportions are "not realistic".

Give me a moment but... excuse me?

Why is it suddenly okay to body shame thin women with large hips or chests?  Why is this the "right" thing to do?

Long story short?  It isn't.  Body shaming is never okay.  It doesn't matter who you are, what you claim to be, what you are or how many influential people you know.  Body shaming is never okay.  It never was okay and it never will be.  People have enough problems with their own self image and self esteem that they don't need some douche hat telling them that the body they were born with was wrong.

And while I'm on that topic...

Let's talk about how it's also suddenly okay to shame straight, white, cis people.  Let's talk about how it isn't bigotry or discrimination if you're being a colossal ignorant moron about the matter.  "It happened to me so it's totally okay for me to do the EXACT SAME THING to other people while also preaching equality!"

Yea.  "Equality."  Equality for non-straight, white, cis, thin women with large hips and boobs and men.

Someone please tell me that this isn't hypocrisy... because that's all I see here.