This is Thin Privilege: Thin privilege is having no reason to assume that you don’t deserve...

Sep 24

This is Thin Privilege: Thin privilege is having no reason to assume that you don’t deserve... →

Thin privilege is having no reason to assume that you don’t deserve your thinness and fat people their fatness, and by extension, the discrimination levied against them—because you’ve never actually been fat or known that many fat people well, and/or you’ve never had a reason to read article after article on body weight and the science of metabolism in order to defend your very right to exist as you are.

Thin privilege is being believed by a vast majority of people when you say you eat tons and never gain weight (one of the “lucky” ones), or that you’re on some kind of special diet for whatever reason, or that you have a chronic condition that makes it hard for you to keep weight on, or that you’re from a family of thin people and so are naturally thin.

Thin privilege is having no reason to think that fat people are fat for the same reasons you might be thin, because there are messages from every direction — diet companies, diet books, women’s talk shows, medical shows, reality shows, statistically dubious press-released studies — about the newest way ‘fat is bad,’ while the ‘fat is good’ studies are never press-released to the same extent.

Thin privilege is a product of fat discrimination.

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