Men have destroyed my body image. Not women’s magazines.

When I was a kid, my dad told me men find any woman attractive unless she is bald. Lol.

But then men proved my dad was an anomaly.

Growing up, I discovered 4chan as a teenager. On 4chan, they roast and rip women apart. Any tiny amount of chub, they destroyed. Me being a teenager, I would post asking for diet advice on /fit/. Their advice?

Limit breakfast to a tomato and cucumber.

Then I discovered r/amiugly r/rateme and similar Reddit’s. They would roast women constantly on those pages. Who was it? Men.

Men would also mock and put down “body positive” models. No, not the morbidly obese ones. The ones who were kind of chubby. Not too fat. Men would rip them apart.

Whenever I would post what pregnancy does to a woman’s belly and how the skin gets stretched out, lose, and covered with stretch marks, MEN, not women, would call them ugly. They would say how the stretched out skin is a sign of failure and obesity.

But men argue that there’s porn for everything. Go on gone wild. I dare you. The top voted girls are skinny with zero flaws. The “normal” and “chubby” girls get like 3 upvotes.

Then there are men in the manosphere saying that if a woman has a BMI above 23 or 24 she is disgusting and deserves to be alone. Not just alone. Some argue abused.

Men never asked me out IRL. What do MEN online claim the reason is? I am fat or ugly.

Cosmo magazine never made me insecure. Men did.