Fat Girls Aren't Allowed to Wear Mini Skirts?

I have a close girl-friend from school. Let's just call her X. I had an interesting conversation with her the other day...


X: You know, the other day, I was on the bus, and I saw this woman wearing a mini skirt. She was really rather fat, so the sight was quite disgusting!

Me: So is the mini skirt disgusting, or is it her fatness that makes it disgusting?

X: Well, her fatness just made it even more disgusting!

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Once again, this is a classic case of unfair treatment. Fat women aren't allowed to wear the same clothes as skinny women. Fat women aren't allowed to show their legs, but skinny women are free to (... and desired to by creepy old men). Fat women don't have much freedom in the kind of clothes they can wear without receiving dirty looks from strangers, as though they're breaking some sort of fashion rule.

What's the deal with the discrimination? So because I'm fat, my legs don't look as nice as skinny girls' legs, and I am therefore not allowed to show them? I fail to see the logic in that!

The way my friend described the incident made it sound like it was a crime for that woman to wear a mini skirt, just because she was fat. But would anyone have judged a super skinny girl for doing the same thing? I hardly think so.

Also, does that mean that if I were really REALLY fat, and I wore a mini skirt to my friend's party, she would say the very same thing about me to all her friends? It's times like these when I wonder who my real friends are - I want friends who wouldn't judge someone for being fat or ugly or stupid or whatever.

What irks me most is: This fat woman actually had the confidence and courage to step out of her house into the world, wearing a short skirt that would reveal her fat legs. But this was the kind of reaction she got from the rest of the world! No wonder fat people are generally not confident about themselves! It's precisely because society discriminates against them and doesn't give them a chance to feel accepted.

*P.S. I am not saying that I approve of people wearing super short skirts that reveal their butts. I'm just talking about how a woman's fatness made it not okay for her to wear the same clothes as skinny women.