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To every thin person complaining about the "no plus size clothes in sports stores" post --

(post here)

-- and saying things like, "Oh, it sucks because the S and XS are always raided and so hard to find!"

...you do realize that a place like Olympia Sports (just using an example of a place around here that sell sports clothing) doesn't sell anything even near my size? That I could even theoretically cover my body with?

It's not that they're just out of stock. They don't offer it. Not even online.

Maybe you're thinking, "Well, of course. It's a sport clothing store. Obviously they won't have fat sizes, but I, a thin person, should expect my size to be offered."

Yeah, and so, that just makes you a bigot, not someone arguing a valid point about social justice.

I'm getting tired of this thin-size clothing whine. It's rarely more than a very thinly veiled pro-bigotry argument.

-ATL

#clothing #thin tears #thinsplainers #thin privilege

Actually, I was not writing off anyone's experience, that post was ERASING EVERY EXPERIENCE A THIN PERSON HAS HAD WITH THE ER BEING SHITTY. "Thin privilege is getting your IBD diagnosed right away, because fat people don’t get bowel diseases." NO. Thin privilege is being told you have a mental disorder and not a fucking GI problem. How ignorant IS this blog even.

You know what? This blog doesn’t need to tell thin people stories. Because the whole world tells thin people stories. That’s what privilege means.

Also: by saying we need to include thin people in every story we tell is erasing the trend this blog is all about exposing — fat people DO receive shoddier care, lack of respect, and naked bias from healthcare professionals in much larger numbers than thin people.

Thin people have the advantage of being believed in the vast majority of instances where they are mistreated, disrespected, or discriminated against in the doctors’ office.* They have the advantage of sympathy for the wrong done to them, while fat people are told that it’s our fault.

You can choose to ignore all this and cry, “What about meeee I’m being erased” but realize that we’re just folks running a blog in some dusty corner of the internet.

We don’t have the ability to make policy. We aren’t running insurance companies. We aren’t on the ethics boards of large medical associations. We aren’t the ones who erase people. We try to color in fat people in the crude sketches society makes of them, which are otherwise filled with vibrant representations of thin people*.

-ArteToLife

*though there are people who represent other marginalized groups who systematically get shoddy care, like folks who through might not have access to good care as a function of being a member of a group that is discriminated against.

*note that the most vibrant representations of thin people are predominantly male, white, straight, and able-bodied.

#thin privilege #thinsplainers #thin people stories #internet emperor #faq #what about thin me

Thin privilege is, when being told that having FEW options under size 4 for a prom dress is still a hell of a lot better than having NO options for a prom dress, continuing to thinsplain and say that thin people have just as hard a time shopping for dresses as fat people.

Thin privilege is being unable to empathize with a fatter person, and thoughtlessly appropriate their experiences because your thin experience is more important than their fat experience.

-ATL

#clothes #prom dresses #thinsplainers #thin privilege

Thin "Privilege": A Troll Submission

So I was chubby growing up. At around the end of my high school years I decided to get into shape. If I was to be spotted by someone who posts on this blog regularly I would probably be silently hated and made fun of later on this same blog. Somebody would talk about how much "privilege" I was oozing. Why is that? If you work hard at something then why is it considered a "privilege"? Your responses are very helpful.

Mod response: Except -- and I hate to break it to you! -- the universe doesn't revolve around you. If a TITP reader met you in public they probably wouldn't give a shit about why you're thin (unlike how you judge others for having fat bodies), or they might find you distasteful because you obviously blame fat people for being fat and suggest strongly (via your story) that all fat people could be just like you and "decide" to "get in shape" after being "chubby growing up" -- despite actual! research! that suggests 1) diets don't work to lose a significant amount of weight for the vast majority of people who try them, even when you call a diet a "lifestyle change" and suggest it should be permanent; 2) weight, like height, is highly hereditary.

But no, keep blaming fat people for not liking you when you ooze distaste of fat bodies through every pore. You think we can't tell when someone is disgusted by us? Please. We've had to carefully read people all our lives in the (sometimes vain) hope that SOMEONE will treat us like fucking humans instead of a broken fat version of a superior thin self.

I don't have enough fuck offs for this post.

-ArteToLife

#trolls #fat privilege isn't a thing #thinsplainers #i can do it so can you #fat behaviors #submission

I don't understand how your insecurities and paranoia about how others view you counts as oppression? Maybe higher self esteem would solve alot of these issues and you could *gasp* sit where you want and eat what you want. Thin people don't need to be policed because your insecure.

Sure, my higher self esteem will magically make medical professionals treat me better, erase BMI restrictions on certain surgeries, fertility treatments, and birth options, lower my health insurance premiums, give me the edge in custody cases with fatphobic judges, widen airplane seats, and lower prices and increase options for plus size clothing. It will erase questions on dating sites like OkCupid asking whether being fat’s a dealbreaker, will stop the War on Obesity single-handed, and convince researchers to no longer use sketchy statistics to connect fatness with every-fucking-thing. It’ll make the ratings for shows like the Biggest Loser and Too Fat for Fifteen and all the Discovery Channel obesity-freak! shows plummet. Diet companies will see their profits go from $60 billion a year to $0, overnight. My salary will go up, and I’ll finally have an edge over thinner people in job and academic interviews. Of course.

You know, you’re right. It’s the fatties’ fault that people hate them! You should write a book. You’d be like a fucking quadRILLionnaire. And us fat people will finally stop policing you -- so no more thin tears! Wipe those eyes. It's all over. The sun's out. It's a brand new day.

-ATL

#snore #keep the trollfires burning #willful ignorance #thinsplainers

Also pretty sure no one gets turned down from a job because they're fat. It's properly because of a bad personality and the whole 'blaming other people because the world doesn't revolve around you' thing.

Oh holy thin person, please tell us what fat people go through! We need your wisdom and guidance, as we apparently cannot and do not know our selves!

Keep showing your thin privilege. You’re proving the point of this blog so well I feel obliged to tell our readership that no, I did not ask you to send this feedback. This is thin privilege, raw and uncut.

-ATL

#working while fat #employment #thinsplaining #thinsplainers

While you might not want to appease the thinsplainers now might be a good time to point out that having privilege does not make you a bad person. And while confronting your privilege may be uncomfortable, it's by doing so that you ensure you don't do or say offensive things. This blog isn't saying you're evil because you're skinny, it's saying that the culture that celebrates your body type is flawed and dangerous and it'd be great if you realized that (and maybe even tried to combat it).

Absolutely. The thing is, this is said in the FAQ and repeatedly across the blog, and would become obvious if someone took any serious kind of glance at the blog. My frustration doesn't come from ignorance--well, not primarily from ignorance. It comes from willful ignorance and the stunningly deep privilege it takes to make a social justice blog all about your privileged hurt feelings (while not even bothering to actually figure out what the social justice blog is about, in the first place).

No matter how many times we say that, "Yes, thin people have problems to and this is about structural privilege/oppression and doesn't imply that individual thin people aren't subject to harassment/insults/annoyances" -- even if EVERY BLOG POST SAID THAT -- we'd still get these messages to the tune of, "Why do you hate thin people so much?"

The reason why we get these messages isn't because we aren't being clear about the differences between individual problems and systemic oppression. The reason we get these messages is because many privileged people are very uncomfortable when you claim that they don't deserve and didn't earn many of the advantages they get for being part of a privileged class. Because, just maybe, they've based a good deal of self-worth on the existence of these advantages. And maybe, just maybe, they don't want to feel guilty for profiting off the oppression of others and just want to blithely continue on enjoying those privileges without having to think more deeply about them.

That's why privileged people fight against checking their privilege. Not because they think we're wrong. Because they're scared shitless that we're right.

-ArteToLife

#thin people problems #thinsplainers #privilege #thin privilege #faq

obese blog’ and that its in now way negatively affecting their life because frankly that’s a lie. im not talking about people that have bed btw, thats a diff subject. im happy to give my tax money to train people how to eat properly but not to pay for their gastric bypass because they’re dying. i hope this isnt taken as hate because its not meant to and as i said i do agree to a cetrain extent i just dont agree with you trying to say being that size is normal and healthy cause its not

What a fucking piece of work you are, eh?

There’s no “but” after “I don’t think people should be discriminated against.”

If you don’t like the idea of socialized medicine (your tax dollars paying for other people’s medical procedures without you having a direct say-so), then BE AGAINST SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Don’t use that as a proxy for hating fat people.

Also: It bothers you to help pay for procedures that would keep someone from dying? I’m not saying I agree that’s the case for most people who get gastric bypass, though that’s certainly what they’re sold. And I also don’t hold with socialized medicine as a sustainable or morally justified model. But to state it that way — wow, you’re an incredible asshole. And I tell you this mainly because I think you need to be told you’re an asshole. That maybe being called out for your bad behavior will pierce your bubble of privilege just a little, because holy shit, that’s QUITE the bubble you’re in.

You’re wrong on pretty much everything you’ve said science-wise, and so very privileged you don’t even have to back up what you say, it’s just plainly TRUE because YOU are saying it. (my info, on the other hand, is linked all over this fucking blog)

If the idea of thin privilege makes you angry, let me advance a theory: You are angry because you desperately NEED to feel superior to fat people. You NEED to look at yourself in the mirror and say, “Well, I might not have all my shit together, but at least I’m not fat.” You NEED to walk around and cast a disparaging eye on anyone who is ‘too’ fat according your vaunted sensibilities. You NEED to feel like, no matter what a fat person does — if they’re kinder than you, funnier than you, smarter than you — well that means fuck all because at least you’re not fat and that makes you BETTER THAN THEM.

Finally: your “I don’t intend for this hateful wrongheaded bullshit I’m spewing to be hateful” is just the final topping on quite a lovely cowpie you’ve dropped. Go crap elsewhere, bigot, we put up with enough shit here.

-ArteToLife

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#trolls #but what about your health #but what about thin me #thinsplainers #thinsplaining #thin privilege #fat discrimination