#thin privilege

[fatphobiabusters]

That person the other day who said they love seeing photos of thin people holding up 3XL jeans to show all of the "hard work" they put into living "the life they want," there's so much I could say about that.

I could explain that any fat person you see has almost certainly put in that same amount of "hard work" to become thin and then watched as their body refused to stay that way.

I could explain basic, unbiased weight science proving that weight loss is only temporary for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain that fat people are human beings who deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and humanity, again for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain and explain and explain, but I'm tired of explaining to people who don't listen and pull their views out of their ass. So instead, I think we should applaud photos of fat people holding up the jeans they temporarily wore as a thin person.

Let's celebrate the fat people who once were a size small. Let fat people hold up their old tiny jeans in celebration of:

Beating an eating disorder

No longer experiencing food insecurity

Recovering from an illness that had caused weight loss

Accepting their fat body instead of abusing themself to become thin again

Leaving an abusive family/living situation where they were starved and/or forced to conform to prevent abuse

Having the genes of ancestors who survived famines

Knowing that there is not a single scientifically-proven method of weight loss

No longer wasting time fighting their body's weight gain from health conditions that cause weight gain, like PCOS

Accepting their body that changed due to pregnancy

Accepting their body that changed due to puberty

Accepting their body that changed due to transitioning

Allowing themself to take the medicine they need to treat mental or physical illness no matter the weight gain side effects

Not listening to harassment from bullies, friends, family, or anyone else who demanded they be thin to deserve peace from mistreatment

Literally just getting older and having a body that has changed with time

Loving themself despite the entire world believing that fat people do not deserve love

Existing, because fat people do not need to justify their body and existence to anyone

And so much more

-Mod Worthy

[thisisthinprivilege]

Thin privilege is saving money, or even being able to access air travel at all, by being able to relatively comfortably book middle seats and tight-pitch seats on budget airlines.

Thin privilege is that last-minute $100 round trip.

Thin privilege is being able to afford to visit a dying relative, or being able to afford to be there for a milestone family occasion, or being able to interview outside of the local job market.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

[keyki421]

Thin Privilege strikes again.

How is this girl gonna complain about the small percentage of Plus Size stores, when she can walk into literally any clothing store and find her size. She can even thrift shop if she wanted to. I hate it when thin people complain when plus size people get offered something. We aren't the minority, but in fashion and clothing we are still treated like the minority.

[crazycatsiren]

Thin people aren't allowed to complain because there literally isn't systemic oppression of thin people.

Are you able to fit in one seat on a train or plane without issues and struggles?

Yes? Then STFU.

I, a midsized person, may be somewhat uncomfortable because I just happen to be tall with long legs. But I can manage, albeit a bit cramped the whole time for want of more leg room.

But I've seen fat people who have to buy an extra plane or train ticket because the seats are just too fucking narrow.

This world favors thin people and hates fat people. The end.

[bigmouthlass]

Thin privilege is never wondering if your loved ones shy from physical contact with you because their trauma history has rendered them touch-adverse, or if it's because they find your fat body so disgusting no amount of love can make touching you bearable.

[bigfatdenial]

Deserve sex? Love? Healthy relationships? What kind of incel logic is this? Fat or thin - the universe doesn’t owe you SHIT. You get what you give, respect included.

Autonomy over medical choices? You gave autonomy up when you blamed being 300+ lbs on “condishuns” instead of choices.

Gurl.

[moirazz]

I fucking hate skinny people. I got on my local bus service today, and noticed a teenager sitting in the disabled seat with an old lady. I kindly asked them to move, but they said no, so I had to sit on a single seat. When they got off the teenager gave me a disgusted look, thin privilege, am I right?

[maturespeakertothedead]

controversial q -- would ppl like harrow if she wasn't skinny? if harrow was full on fat.... would anyone still like her? tazmuir is so obsessed with harrow's smallness and it makes me sad. i know there's a way to 'explain' why harrow is small etc but cmon guys, media literacy here. in a severely fatphobic world it really makes me wonder if harrow's beauty (because nona and therefore she is canonically beautiful) and thinness are prerequisites for the reader's willingness to grant harrow mercy, humanize her, and read her as generously as the fandom does. (and do NOT come at me with 'but coronabeth is fat!! we are not talking abt crown right now!!)

[zuckarr]

Getting a little tired of thin people complaining about being fat... I perfectly understand how difficult it is to deal with your own body image, and to have low self esteem, and to be victims of fatphobia - honestly, no one can understand all of that better than fat people - but I'd like others to try and be a little more self aware of their own *real* body types. It is sort of insensitive for a thin person to complain about being fat with an actual fat person. Besides, I think it's important to remember that you may be subconsciously trying to make yourself feel better and that's just not fair and doesn't do any good to either of us.

There is nothing wrong with being fat. There is nothing wrong with being thin. There is nothing wrong with ANY body type, but everything's wrong when a certain body type has privileges and the other has disadvantages. Keeping that in mind is the very least anyone can do, so why not do it?

[fatphobiabusters]

It says a lot about society that a beach towel that actually fits me is labeled "oversized" on the packaging so that thin people can know which of a select few beach towels will make them feel all warm and cozy and small.

I already buy beach towels to dry myself off with because it's easier than looking for bath towels that fit me, so labeling a beach towel "oversized" because this world is made solely for thin people is just added cruelty. I've been using beach towels to dry myself off with even when I was in the low 200s weight range.

What's fucking wild is that 99.999999% of thin people are blissfully ignorant of what the world is like for fat people. They have no clue what it's like to have to check the weight capacity of a chair on a website before buying it or seeing everything that's the perfect size for you being labeled "oversized." They don't know what it's like not being able to find clothes that fit you at a regular store, thrift store, online store, or even those plus size stores that only go up to a 3XL and just resize thin people clothing.

They don't know what it's like being thankful to learn online that Plan B doesn't work for most fat people before you bought and assumed in a post-roe world that Plan B will be effective. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where everyone freely hates and discriminates against you without even having backlash from progressives and people who claim to support equality, because oppressing you is just accepted fact even to the people who fight for the rights of all of your other oppressed identities. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where hating you is so expected and normalized that it's ingrained into your own people to the point that you literally cannot trust that

anyone you meet

not a single person

who looks like you will share solidarity.

None.

Whenever a thin person suddenly becomes fat, that is the closest we have to a person realizing they've been living in the Matrix. The most intense epiphany you'll ever have is rapidly becoming fat and then seeing how this world changes for you almost overnight.

-Mod Worthy

[thisisthinprivilege]

Thin privilege is having a normal partner.

No fat person in a healthy relationship has a normal partner. Our partners have to have reflected upon and grappled with the cultural stigma against fatness, particularly in beauty standards, and somehow overcome it.

Our partners have to have rejected the constant messaging that fat people are physically and emotionally and mentally less-than everyone else, or have some kind of giant personality flaw, or have some dark hidden trauma that "caused" us to become fat.

Our partners have to have rejected the constant messaging that fat people make worse partners and parents, that we are socially contagious, that we unwittingly/uncaringly contribute to climate change, that we exemplify excessive materialism.

Our partners have to have rejected the media that has equated people with our body types as pathetic, as jokes, as villains.

The partners of fat people are exceptional.

Thin privilege is having a huge dating pool because you don't need an exceptional partner to be treated with basic respect and dignity, as you already have it by default.

[darkshrimpemotions]

I really hate the extent to which any conversation about fatness and ending fat phobia and fat acceptance always turns into managing the emotions of thin people.

Like you have to manage the emotions of thin people in the comments who insist that they also experience discrimination against their bodies because somebody told them once they were too skinny. You have to manage the emotions of thin people who feel like they deserve to publicly air their own anxieties about ever looking like we do. You have to manage the emotions of thin people who don't know the difference between systemic oppression faced by fat people and their own self-image issues.

And then you have to manage the emotions of thin people who are existentially terrified that if we as a society acknowledge that it's okay to be fat, they will no longer be able to view being thin as an accomplishment instead of like a fucking luck of the draw, genetic accident and then they will have basically tormented themselves for nothing.

And then we have to manage the emotions of people who are convinced that somehow the actual goal of fat acceptance is to take their diet away from them. When, in fact, literally nobody within fat acceptance cares what you're doing with your body. The point is that we should be able to live in the bodies that we are existing in and be given the same dignity and healthcare and pay and opportunities as everyone else, and shouldn't be discriminated against because of what our bodies look like.

Like we have more important shit to do than manage your anxieties around whether or not somebody's gonna find your diet problematic. That is not fat acceptance's concern. That's something you need to journal about or talk to your therapist about. But that is not any fat activist's concern what you do with your body, what diet you're on, what exercise regimen. Nobody fucking cares.

And then we have to manage the emotions of the thin person who's offended that nobody fucking cares. Or the person who's mid-sized and gets mad that their voice isn't amplified enough within a space that's not really for them. And they feel shamed and left out because they're not being given the platform in a fat activist space because they're used to the hierarchy of the world that prioritizes thin people. So the fact that they are within the space, a thin person, but not being prioritized feels like an attack on them and then we have to manage those emotions too, and I'm just...

It's fucking exhausting. It's like I'm tired of managing the emotions of thin people when I'm trying to do fat activism. I have better shit to do I have more important shit to do!

[keyki421]

This is what I mean when I say fat people get made fun of regardless of what we do. Here we have a fat guy riding a bike which is great exercise. Yet, he is still being made fun of. Fat people get attacked for not exercising and then when we do exercise, we are still attacked for it.

I hear all the time about how these situations are only in my head, yet the internet is filled with videos of overweight people at the gym, being mocked.

PS: This shit always comes from accounts with no profile photo.

[crazycatsiren]

Daily reminder to thin people: it costs you nothing to leave fat people alone and mind your own business.