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    This guy just slammed body shaming in one fell swoop

    He helped his girlfriend clean out her wardrobe and was shocked to find this...

    By Marie Claire
    Published 13 May 2016 In Features

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    He helped his girlfriend clean out her wardrobe and was shocked to find this...

    We only need to look through our own wardrobes to see that the sizing of women’s clothes is all over the place. In fact sometimes it’s hard to say what dress size we even are because of how dramatically it changes from one brand to the next.

    Enter Benjamin Ashton Cooper, who recently stated the obvious in the most fantastic way. 

    He was helping girlfriend Nicki Louloudis clean out her closet last weekend (what a babe) when he noticed something that ‘didn’t look right’ to him – the fact that some of Nicki’s clothes sizes were XL.

    Cue the most brilliant, to the point post about body shaming and sexism we’ve seen in a long time…

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    'So I'm helping my girlfriend clean out her closet', he wrote, 'and I noticed that a lot of what she was getting rid of was of the XL size. That didn't look right to me, and here's why: They fit me. I don't say that to be silly or ironic. It pisses me off.I am not an extra large man, and, more importantly, a woman my size is NOT an extra large woman.' 

    He continued: 'This bullshit right here is why we have 8 year olds with eating disorders. This shit right here is why men shout "f**king fat hog!" at even nominally curvy girls on the street. This is why men who think sexism is a "myth" perpetuated by liberal pussies are Full. Of. Shit. F**k body shaming. # EndBodyShaming .'

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    And with that, he said everything women have ever wanted to say about body shaming.

    Benjamin, who says he wears a men’s small or medium, also added in the comments that his point wasn’t about clothing sizes getting bigger over the years (which in some shops they have), but about the huge difference between men and women’s sizing.

    ‘My point wasn’t about the sizes, it’s about the disparity in sizing between men and women. The fact I can get into both a men’s small and a women’s extra large is straight up sexism. Body shaming is sexism.’

    High five, Ben, we couldn’t agree more.

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