Woman's savage response to skinny-shaming

A woman has asked the internet for advice after being repeatedly shamed for her slim figure by a colleague at a new workplace.

Taking to Reddit to explain the situation, the new employee explained a female co-worker repeatedly calls her out regarding her weight.

“I'm female 5'9" (175cm), 115lbs (52kg) and very thin. She is very overweight,” the woman writes.

“She doesn't call me by name she calls me ‘slim’ and I even heard her say one time ‘go ask toothpick’ and she has said stuff like ‘you need some meat on your bones’ & ‘you need to eat’.”

Having only worked there for eight days, she says she has repeatedly asked her colleague to stop, and even spoken to their boss, who said they should sort it out amongst themselves.

So the woman decided to give her co-worker a taste of her own medicine.

“Yesterday I asked her to stop calling me slim again and she basically said it's her mouth and she can say what she wants,” she continued.

“Today when she said ‘morning slim’ I replied ‘morning chunky’ and she got upset and actually started crying.”

However, now all the other staff (six in total) say the woman needs to apologise for calling her co-worker chunky because “being called fat is ‘different’ than being called skinny, because being called skinny is a ‘compliment’.”

“Now I'm the bad person. AITA if I don't apologise?”

“She didn't stop doing it after I asked multiple times and I didn't know what to do besides what she was doing to me. She brought up my weight, I brought up hers,” she concluded.

The majority of people said the woman was in no way in the wrong, as she had tried to speak to the colleague and her boss already with no luck.

“Just because she apparently defines herself by her appearance does not give her the right to define you by yours. Objectification sucks,” one person wrote.

“She repeatedly body shamed you and refused to stop after repeated requests. You flipped it on her and now she can’t take it? Boo f**king hoo,” another said.

“If she can dish it out, she can take it. I hate it when people do the ‘antagonise until they fight back, then claim to be a victim’ crap,” another agreed.

Others said what she did wasn’t right, but sometimes the situation might call for it.

“It's an a**hole thing to do but sometimes you need to be an a**hole,” one person wrote.

“Normally I'd say [everyone sucks here] because just because she does, it doesn't mean it absolves you of you doing it as well,” another wrote.

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