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Jameela Jamil called out a body-shaming post on Instagram this weekend, and in the process sparked a motherforking movement.
The Good Place actress noticed an account listing all of the Kardashian-Jenners’ respective weights, captioned “What weight are you?” and was appropriately enraged.
“Who gives a F-K what weight you are?” she demanded, posting the screenshots to Instagram Stories and Twitter. “What is this toxic bullsh-t? This is how women are taught to value themselves. In kg. GRIM. I’m on a war path.” Her tweet has amassed nearly 30,000 likes in just two days.
I’m on the war path. pic.twitter.com/A3zC6yTB6G
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) February 23, 2018
Rather than leaving her critique at that, Jamil went on to present a different way to “weigh” yourself. She posted a full-body mirror selfie to Twitter listing the ways she values her worth apart from an asset as trivial as her physical appearance.
“I weigh: lovely relationship, good friends, I laugh every day, I love my job, I make an honest living, I’m financially independent, I speak out for women’s rights, I like myself in spite of EVERYTHING I’ve been taught by the media to hate about myself,” she wrote, then challenging her followers: “I’ve shown you mine, now show me what you think you weigh.”
Hundreds of women did just that. Over the next few days, women posted their own selfies to the platform, listing all of the ways they “weigh” themselves, from “a Game of Thrones obsession” to “a Master’s degree in English” to “incredible neighbors.”
I’ve shown you mine, now show me what you think you weigh 💪🏽 https://t.co/TzcuhWdynt
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) February 23, 2018
Yes Jameela! Let's all do this…#selfworthisnotanumber #bodypositive pic.twitter.com/QcyS8iteoB
— Lara Terry (@LaraRixon) February 23, 2018
Let's all do this. A brilliant response! pic.twitter.com/6sFTTgWiSe
— Amanda (@filmvsbook) February 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/pizzaandchips10/status/967311795059920897
The on-screen name-dropper then took to Instagram to praise the many women rejecting society’s prescribed roles for what women should be.
“I can’t f-king believe I’m seeing women talk about their achievements and favourite parts of their lives,” she wrote alongside a video jumping up and down on her couch Tom Cruise-style. “THIS IS HOW WE SHOULD BE. Absurd body and beauty standards were created to hold women back. Be bold. Be different. Be proud. Sleep more, worry less, spend less money on ‘fixing’ your appearance and more money on feeding your happiness. Love you. Sorry for this sickening rant of gushing adoration of women. We win.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BflkxxrFdqL/?hl=en&taken-by=jameelajamilofficial
All we can say is, if there is a Good Place, Jamil has a much better shot than Tahani of getting there.
