#thisisnotthinprivilege

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Are you trying to figure out why you're not losing weight even though you're eating better and exercising? Here's 11 reasons why you're unable to lose fat.

You won’t believe #5!

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Mayra Rosales: inspirational hero

This woman committed perjury by lying to authorities to cover up the murder of her nephew by her sister. She didn't get prosecuted because prisons are not equipped to deal with a 1100 pound human... oh and and female privilege.

She has since gotten surgery to save her life. Such a brave person, with the will power to have her insurance pay doctors to cut her fat off. Give her a fucking federal holiday. Facebook commenters are treating her like she is such an inspirational figure.

I don't get how this objectively horrible person can be treated like a saint. Oh wait it's cause she is a young woman with a reasonably cute face.

If this were some fat dude who covered the murder of a 2½ year old girl he'd be treated like the child murder enabler he is. Stay tuned for the new TLC reality TV show, which is unlikely to be about 2½ year old Eliseo Rosales Jr getting bludgeoned to death by his mother and the conspiracy to cover it up, cause that's not the important part of this story, it's this woman being a poor victim.

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In response to a recent TiTP post about redefining the word gluttony--what they hell else is it supposed to mean? You can't just change the definition of a word just because you don't like what it originally means. Gluttony consists if having enough money to feed yourself more than you actually need, thus resulting in a person becoming overweight. This is why most Americans and Europeans are so unhealthy because they have the money that other countries do not have to feed themselves excessively.

I didn’t see this post until now and I understand what you mean. I don’t like when people try to “redefine” something with a standard definition and not just a connotation in society. Gluttony has always been portrayed as such, and the seven deadly sins have been stagnant since the beginning of Christian mysticism. Is this supposed to change because as of modern times—quite the opposite of times during that period where a fat person typically was an overly capacious person—the majority of First World citizens are overweight? If someone develops a time machine maybe we can go back and change social standards of the 300’s?

TiTP has a knack for throwing logic right out of the window.

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I've never really gotten the chance to address why, originally, TITP plagued me with despondence. I do remember taking a lot of time to analyze the issue from every angle. I'm not one to jump to a conclusion solely based off of my own emotional discord, but from the beginning it struck me the wrong way. 

After reading this part of their FAQ, I began to gain more perspective as to why. It was this passage specifically that stood out to me.

  The first is that being told to go eat a sandwich or being forced to take in a baggy pair of pants is not oppression. Privilege is institutional; it doesn’t always resolve to the individual level. Privileged people have problems. They might even experience some of the same problems oppressed people have. But in no way do they experience the oppression of the underprivileged.

  The word institutional perfectly describes body oppression (note that I said body oppression and not singularly fat body oppression). It has been stated on this blog several times that I feel the media and government contributes to body oppression. We can all 100% agree on this, I'm sure.

The only division here that keeps all of us from jumping up, clapping, shouting "YEAH!" with our chests out and fist in the air, is the last sentence. 

  But in no way do they experience the oppression of the underprivileged.

Okay, yeah that is fair when talking about other oppressions, but it doesn't apply to "thin privilege". This is the part where I got kind of angry and wanted to stop reading so badly because I knew what was to come next, but I continued forward.

Secondly, thin shaming is in no way comparable to what fat people go through.

  And this is the sentence, that stopped me from jumping onto the thin privilege wagon. I'm sorry, but to be frank, what the fuck? The word "thin shaming" aside, what about body shaming in general? For the life of me, I still can't understand this backwards philosophy.  

They mention that oppression is INSTITUTIONAL, therefore stating that condemning less than ideal body types is an INSTITUTIONAL issue. That means diet media and government superfluous on health and body type is INSTITUTIONAL. 

I'm not going to repeat myself a thousand times on this blog, but I've stated before and graphed out the percentage of people who are naturally thin and it's staggeringly low (like, you'd be shocked right of your hair follicles, that's how low it is.)

You cannot look at a thin person and snidely think "That person is privileged, look how thin they are!" when behind closed doors they could very well be starving themselves and spending over 8 hours a day working out because of INSTITUTIONAL body shaming. It's nearly impossible with our food industry for most people to not experience excessive weight gain (strongly encourage those of TITP to do some research on the dangers of mainstream food) being that most people are not naturally thin.

I'm not saying that gaining weight is the end of the world either, but it seems that this fear is bread due to our media, government, and fat shaming. That means that more than half of the populace is killing themselves everyday to meet this "ideal" standard of beauty that seems to fluctuate and change every decade. 

Normally I wouldn't butt into the business of what one oppressed group does over another, but I feel like "thin privilege" not only has a negative effect on thin people, but it negatively affects fat people as well and all of what's in between. "Thin privilege" glorifies being thin just like the media does, but in such a horrible way that people honestly believe it's helping their self image. 

TITP should take their own advice. Privilege is in fact institutional, and it is not resolved to an individual. 

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I love this blog so much and I hope that if you decide to stop posting that you'll consider handing it down to someone because if it disappears I will be so sad. Thank you for promoting reason and acceptance despite all the hate and martyrdom on this website.

Ahhh ! You’re welcome. My only concern with allowing someone else to take over is that I don’t want my message to get misconstrued. I don’t want to be a fat bashing blog or another body-negative blog like TITP.

That could happen easily so I’m really hesitant to give someone else the duty of running it. I’d rather keep this as more of an archive than have someone destroy the meaning of it.

Hopefully one day though. It would be nice to have some help.

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"Thin privilege" almost killed me. When I was younger, I had a traumatic experience and was unable to eat for months. I ended up in a hospital for over a year, put on and off of life support. I dropped to 35 pounds, and subsequently went through a year of eating-disorder therapy that was impossibly stressful. I came back to school and was taunted for my weight more than usual. I still have a hard time swallowing food, I'm still dangerously thin, and I'm still self conscious about my body.

I'm so sorry this happened to you, dear. :(

TITP doesn't really consider the harm their page may cause others (both thin and fat). They seem really blind to the fact that no matter how you look at the message they're trying to convey, it will always translate negatively.

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Introducing

This is NOT thin privilege! :)

I was going to type out my whole reasoning here but instead I decided to make an entire page for it. So here is why I made this blog and anyone is welcome to stick around, rather you agree or not. 

This is a self empowerment blog, of any size, shape, and variety! So kick up a chair. I have a lot of things to say, a lot of things to right due to the sort of confusion and anger that thisisthinprivilege has managed to stir up. 

Please submit your stories and general perspectives, rather it be you are thin, or you are heavier and you wish to tell everyone your story/struggles. If you managed to overcome them, congratulations, if you're still having difficulty, that's what I'm here for, and anyone else who wishes to empower the people.