“If Sam Smith were thin, cis, and straight, they wouldn’t be ridiculed for how they present and dress,” one tweeted.
But it didn’t take long for the singer’s fans to fight back, with many pointing out that risqué outfits are commonplace in modern music videos and suggesting that a mix of fatphobia and queerphobia was behind Smith’s bring singled out.
The backlash against Sam Smith is absolutely about people not wanting people to be overtly sexual unless they’re skinny“If Sam Smith were thin, cis, and straight, they wouldn’t be ridiculed for how they present and dress. If Harry Styles wore the same fits on a magazine cover, y’all would be screaming YAS QUEEN. Anyway, support fat queer people,” writer Mae Murray
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