First it was Kendall Jenner, Now it's the thin Yale Student: Give Skinny People a Break!

Well just like the old saying goes. "You're damned if you do and damned if you don't." No matter what anyone does, there will always be criticism.

So Yale University pretty much told Frances Chan that either she could fatten up or risk expulsion. Once student health services found out about France's weight, they automatically decided that she had an eating disorder. According to their statistics most of Yale's student body is over achievers and that puts them at high risk for eating disorders.

Unfortunately, for Frances, she fit into this category. When I first read this article I thought it was a fluke. Like I really thought it was a joke. I didn't even know it was legal. Can a school really expel you if you don't meet their weight requirements? 

Thank God when I was in college I never had to go to UNC-
G's student services or else I would have been out of school a long time ago. 

Like Frances, I too have a high metabolism. No matter how much I eat, I will not gain weight. And now because I have been battling 'erosive gastritis' for the past two years, I am still 7 to 8 pounds under my ideal weight. 

All my life,  I have struggled with bullies constantly harassing me about my weight. This happened often when I was in high school and also well into adulthood. When I was in college, nobody cared. I never suffered any criticisms to my knowledge. (But God only knows what was said when I was not around)

The good thing about UNC-G was the campus was pretty big and I spent most of my time in lecture halls. I loved it. I like feeling anonymous and just listening to the professor talk all day. 

But when school was over and I entered into the workforce where  the quarters were more intimate, insults flew on a regular basis. Sometimes, I feel like larger people think they get a pass to pick on petite folks. It's like, because our society is obsessed with being thin, they are free to insult skinny people whenever they feel like it.

Since I've been sick, and also before my sickness, people constantly harassed me saying things like 'Oh my! You look like the wind is going to blow you away or OMG did you get your clothes from the toddler section of the store?'

So yeah folks, you name it and I've heard it. Sometimes, I wish I could catapult myself off this planet and live in a world where people stopped gorking at me all the time. Is that the only thing we can talk about as a society? I mean there are more serious issues in the world right?

I hope this issue with Yale resolves itself soon for Frances. The only thing I know she is going to have to do is, have her personal physician back her up. We are not a one size fits all society. Some people really are naturally thin. However, the same way larger people want to be treated with respect, petite folks do to!

Anyway, I'm done rambling. Have a good one everybody!