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Shorter TiTP: Thin privilege is not having to suffer the consequences of sizing yourself out of human clothes.

Size 22 puts you somewhere in the range of 250-300 lbs at average height for a woman. If you’re that fat, you ought to complain less about clothes, and work on your eating.

How deluded do you have to be to think that clothes are the problem when you’re at a 40+ BMI?

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Um. How is pointing out that thin shaming is just as bad as fat shaming fat phobia or whatever??

Read.This.Blog.Fat shaming is worse than thin shaming. Objectively, quantifiably. There’s a good lot of evidence that most “thin shaming” is actually rooted in fat shaming. Check out the blog and allll the resources we have linked in our FAQ and actually read the “fatphobia” and “fat shaming” tags before posting your thin privileged bullshit in them and maybe just maybe come out from under the rock you’ve been hiding under because R U FOR REAL?? OMG.

Let’s not even address how you want me to regurgitate a bunch of easily resourced evidence about how fat shaming is worse than thin shaming when you were the one who fired the first unfounded assertion. Because I think we both know how that looks for you.

-ATL

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Vent About Thin Privilege & the Holidays With Us!

“Oh, Cousin looks soooo good, she’s lost so much weight!”

“Are you sure you want to eat that?”

“Do you think you need that extra spoonful of mashed potatoes?”

“I’m going to have to starve allll weekend to make up for today.”

“Isn’t Niece so wonderfully slender? She must have gotten it from my side of the family. You, on the other hand, definitely got your build from your father’s side!”

We’ve heard them all before, haven’t we? The blatant praising of thin relatives. The food shaming. The blatant and subtle silence about our (fat) appearance when all the thin relatives are being praised. The genetic comparisons and tut-tutting over how “lucky” the thin relatives are. The self-flogging for enjoying a simple family meal. The requests, bribes, and threats to “convince” us to start losing weight and stop being such “embarrassments” to the family. Suggesting we’re bad parents for remaining fat and that our children “deserve” thin parents. Leaving us out of the big family photo, or stuffing us in the back and putting the thin relatives up front. Only asking about the lives of thin relatives and ignoring or outright mocking the fatter relatives. Making assumptions about what we eat or how we live.

Well, this holiday season, you’re not alone. You’ve got a wonderful community of supportive fat folks who want to hear your story. It doesn’t have to be something huge. It can be little annoyance and subtle digs. But we would like to give you a voice and some supportive comments to help you get through what can be difficult events for many fat folks.

Please send us your holiday stories of fat discrimination and thin privilege. We’ll tag and link the stories to our “Events and Community” page, so mention that you’re submitting to the event.

Happy holidays, readers! We’re here for you.

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Thin Privilege

The entire concept of thin privilege blows my mind as a person living in a third world country. (Of course I am aware that I have a bunch of privileges too). But the idea that people have so much food available and they get fat and obese and pile on the pounds and say they are oppressed is mind-blowing.

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I heard a radio ad today for a website called weightlossgrants.org Apparently if you “have more than 20lbs to lose” they’ll give you a grant of up to $1800 towards the weight loss program of your choice. Guaranteed acceptance, basically no questions asked. Like seriously? “We hate fat bodies so much, that we’ll just hand over close to two grand per person, to try to rid the world of them” When I think of all the good things that could be done with that kind of money, and this is how this organization chooses to be “charitable”?!?!

Because helping people avoid diseases as a result of an ongoing epidemic is a bad thing, folks. You heard it here first.

The reblogs also suggest using the money for other things, like helping with the water situation in Flint, MI, or hurricane victims. Because, you know, these things have totally flown under the radar and totally haven’t seen any media attention. And because you can only have charitable activities focused on one thing at a time, ever.

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Fat Oppression & Lookism

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Thin privilege is a social phenomenon that exists as a function of fat stigma, and it exists regardless of someone’s personal experience being thin or fat. Fat stigma is real, pervasive, and forceful. It invades entertainment, science, news reporting, advertising, sports, business, family planning (like adoption and fertility treatments and being called an abusive parent by virtue of you or your child being fat), education, dating/love/sex/marriage, fiction, travel, academia…. and on and on and on.

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