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" A lot of energy gets put into\u00A0reinforcing\u00A0the message that our bodies are beautiful, whatever their size. But\u00A0then we go and see new\u00A0stats like this, which indicate that all the hard work is being undone by a bunch of\u00A0ignorant, undeserving people.  Dating app for plus-sized women, WooPlus, carried out a survey which revealed that 71% of its 1,000 &amp;#039;curvy&amp;#039; users reported having been fat-shamed by men on &amp;quot;regular&amp;quot;\u00A0dating apps. One user reported having &amp;quot;been harassed so many times for both my height and weight. I guess I&amp;#039;ve triggered some size related existential crises,&amp;quot; while another respondent said: &amp;quot;I have also been told that if I were to lose weight that I could pass as a decent looking person.&amp;quot; Wow.  Seriously, what gives some of these men the right to judge a woman they&amp;#039;ve never even met based on the shape of her body? What was that your mum always used to say? If you have nothing nice to say then don&amp;#039;t say anything at all? Hmm, might be worth putting that one into practice. While 29% of WooPlus&amp;#039; users reported having never been called out on their weight by men on other dating apps, many of those did note that they have been rejected due to their size.\u00A0  Which to some extent is fair enough - each individual knows what they are and aren&amp;#039;t attracted to - but it does raise some concerns that this culture of &amp;#039;swiping&amp;#039; on dating apps, and making judgements based on nothing other than a person&amp;#039;s outward appearance, is actually causing more and more people to become increasingly shallow. And this, in turn, could start reinforcing the message that we need to be some kind of &amp;#039;one size fits all&amp;#039; society if anyone is going to find us attractive. Which is neither\u00A0helpful, nor true. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been turned down but not harassed thank god. We us curvy girls deserve to meet someone like any girls. Love has no sex, size, weight,&amp;quot; one particular respondent said.  WooPlus is attempting to reduce this unnecessary &amp;#039;stigma&amp;#039;, by creating an environment where larger women can make contact with men who aren&amp;#039;t quite so single-minded. And\u00A0we think that&amp;#039;s\u00A0great.\u00A0Because our differences are important. I know I don&amp;#039;t want to live in some kind of\u00A0Stepford Wives-esque world where everyone looks and acts the same, anyway.\u00A0 Follow Cat on Twitter.  Like this? Come and check us out on Snapchat Discover.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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