B!TC# IT OUT!

[Mermaid Jaffa]

So with all the cinderella hype dying down I thought I'd hear the end of "Her waist is unnatural! No one can have a waist that small!" or seeing those terribly photoshopped photos making her waist small, boy was I wrong. I was wearing a crop top and a high waist skirt to go to the movies for my birthday with my boyfriend last monday and an old lady and her daughter came up to me and asked what my waist size was because she said I looked tiny. I told her it was 24 inches and then she starts going on to ask me about if I was starving myself, or if I saw the "horrible" cinderella junk and wanted a waist like that and started to eat nothing but soup. Then her daughter proceeded to go on about how unnatural it looks, and wondered why I was starving myself for something that doesn't happen in nature. Plot twist douche bags- 24 inches is my natural waist size. (actually 23, but I gained the freshman 15 at college lol). Just because YOU don't have a small waist doesn't mean it doesn't happen naturally and I don't appreciate being called a freak of nature or people claiming that I'm starving myself. I was feeling so cute and was feeling amazing that day, I got to see my boyfriend, he was going to take me to build-a-bear, I got out of the house, I got compliments on my hair and shirt, then one interaction just ruined my whole day.

Dw, it passes. When I was a teen, everyone thought I was anorexic because I was so thin and my appetite then was huge. I'd eat big amounts of food but never get fat. People always assumed there was something wrong with me just because I was stick thin and wondered where all the food went. Well I can tell you now, all that food went to my waist and butt!

[Naufra]

People actually approached you for the sole purpose of loudly declaring their own judgemental assumptions about you based entirely on your appearance alone, Momo? Wow, that's incredibly rude! I'll admit, I get that kind of nonsense thrown at me, too, because I'm obese, and my cousin used to get people harassing her about being too skinny when she was a teen, and in no case was it justified. You need to come up with some snappy retorts! "Did you asphyxiate yourself to lose all those brain cells to become this stupid? That's not natural!"

[SeaGlass Siren]

^i like this. i hope you dont mind if i use it.

[Sabrina the Selkie]

That sucks, Momo. My (unhealthy, corset wearing) paternal great grandmother died with a fifteen inch waist. Give them THAT number if they think 24 is too thin. *sigh*

[Mermaid Mystery]

I've struggled with an eating disorder for four years and I want to fight this lady. S T O P. body shaming is the worst. once when I was working (in the children's zoo) this bald guy brought his kid over and I told the kid not to climb on the fence for his safety and the guy FLIPPED. he yelled at me about how I'm overreacting and it's not going to hurt him, and as he left he told ME to get my hair the right color. sorry baldy but my purple hair looked bangin that year. people are so rude


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Wesley]

AHHH I'm fairly sure mono actually does wear corsets. As do I. And many other heathy people I know. *awkward turtles away* and labyrinth dear *bear hugs*


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Momo]

AHHH I'm fairly sure mono actually does wear corsets. As do I. And many other heathy people I know. *awkward turtles away* and labyrinth dear *bear hugs*


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yep! I do wear corsets! I finally got mine down to 23 inches! woot!

[Mermaid Wesley]

Aw hot damn girlie! You look great! I say I wear corsets but really i HAVE worn them and am saving up but can't buy one until I move into my own place. Judgey parents :/


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Mystery]

same Wesley! I love corsets so much but my mom thinks it's for eating disorder reasons, but it's just for me. she's totally fine with me wearing them in costume, what the heck.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Wesley]

Someday I'll have a lovely rats custom and I'll just be so happy I will die <3


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Mystery]

also momo you look great!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mermaid Momo]

I know exactly how you feel, I had to wait 2 years before I got mine because my mom kept insisting that you could break your ribs and stuff and refused to read the information I sent her or watch the videos. So in February, since I wasn't home I decided to buy one cuz they couldn't stop me lol. The next time they came to visit me I had it on and my mom is actually thinking of getting one now, And lovely rats *swoons

Thanks Mermaidofthelabryinth !

[Mermaid Wesley]

lol well thats good that she's come around huh? SOMEDAY *sheds a tear*

[Azurin Luna]

I have a corset too, but it's a little to long, when I'm sitting it pushes into my armpits, but when I'm standing it looks great and I love the feeling. To bad my dad had to crush that feeling by bluntly saying in my face that it made me look ugly and as if my breast had to be under my chin or something like that. It's an overbust corset, so yes, my breasts get pushed together, and it may look a little odd when I'm sitting, but to say that I'm ungly... grah! Sad to say, I rarely wear it now... maybe I should get a different one

[SeaGlass Siren]

i swear that is the worst. you should tell him "thanks i got the ugly trait from you".

[Sabrina the Selkie]

What the hell is wrong with your dad, Azurin!?!?! And whoops, that came out wrong. I love corsets. My great grandmother just went way over board with it. I'm fairly certain she actually DID break her ribs for that waist line. On purpose.

[Aysun_the_Mermaid]

I have been having dental issues for a few days now. I have been unable to get an appointment due to the doctor being out of town.
So I have an appointment for tomorrow...

At 2:30

Two thirty.

Tooth hurty.

*flail*

Glad to know the universe still has a sense of humor...

[Azurin Luna]

I don't know. Sometimes I think he is scared that his 'little' girl is making herself look to sexy or selling my body off or something bizar. I'm happily married, and I rarely wear anything in the terms of sexy. I got nothing revealing in my closet except a playful nightdress. My mother says nothing of it, but I sometime thinks she disapproves as well. But I wear what I want, and they aren't stopping me now

[PearlieMae]

I have been having dental issues for a few days now. I have been unable to get an appointment due to the doctor being out of town.
So I have an appointment for tomorrow...

At 2:30

Two thirty.

Tooth hurty.

*flail*

Glad to know the universe still has a sense of humor...

Hahahaha!

I learned that joke in the third grade! Way back in 1968!

I'm a old.

Feel better!

[Aysun_the_Mermaid]

When mom told me I swore loudly and she was freaked out thinking that I was in so much pain I needed an earlier appointment.