lovethyfatness:

roxxieyo:

red3blog:

thisisthinprivilege:

Fat discrimination is this poster that I have to see on the subway every day. [TW: Utterly Ignornant Fat Discrimination]

Mod add: Thin privilege is having no such analogue marketing your body type as a gluttonous, junk-food-eating nonhuman silhouette who’s so powerfully monstrous their potato chips defy gravity, careening towards their open maws like stardust towards a black hole. -ATL

Gosh knows my favorite way to eat potato chips is to life the bag over my head and have them cascade into my face. Ya know, cuz I’m fat and all.

The problem is that they never just cascade perfectly like this. If I tried this, i’d have potato chips in my hair, shirt, everywhere. False chip method advertisement.

OBEAST EAT CHAHPS

I’ve been looking for that gif my entire damn life. 

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jackrad:

how do i know this?  um, i’ve been fat basically my whole life and i’m basically kinda thin-ish now and apart from a lot of little things (like the fact that i can walk into any store and find clothes that fit me and are made for someone with a body that is sort of like mine-ish and i can sit comfortably on public transit without the person next to me giving me dirty looks for taking up part of their seat), people treat me way differently.  basically people are nice to me and flirt with me and treat me like what i have to say is important and like i have value to them as a fellow human being and like i am not at all invisible.  and i can kind of take for granted that people will treat me that way now

the level of respect with which people treat me is something that i have never experienced as a fat person.

i have a lot of other privilege as a white person and someone raised middle class and as an american and a temporarily able bodied person and as someone who almost has a master’s degree and other stuff and sometimes that privilege can be invisible to me, though i try to be aware of it, it’s sometimes invisible to me because it’s my world and it’s kind of always been my world. that’s how privilege works—the people who have it don’t usually notice it

but having thin privilege has not always been my world so i’m really really aware of thin privilege every time i experience it.

(via thisisthinprivilege)

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shakethecobwebs:

But it’s only one seat.

And you all have to try to fit in that one seat. 

And if you can’t fit? Sorry. I’m not getting another seat. Sit in that one. It’ll be uncomfortable. It’ll hurt. It’ll probably leave you with bruises, and people will know where they’ve come from. Your privilege takes up a lot of fucking space afterall. 

I should make you more privilege-checking seats so you’re not uncomfortably sitting in one seat? Sorry, fat people are lazy. 

I should stop laughing at the fact that you’re so upset about posts on thin privilege? Sorry, fat people are jolly!

I should stop talking about the oppression of fat people? Sorry, fat people are undisciplined and I dunno how to keep my big fat mouth shut. 

I should make thin privilege easier for you to understand so that I’m not ~*~reverse discriminating~*~* against you? Sorry, fat people are greedy, and I’d rather blog about the importance of fat acceptance than you. 

(via thisisthinprivilege)

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thisisthinprivilege:

Oh, every scenario, eh?

So thin people are forced to buy two tickets to fly or risk getting thrown off the plane?

So thin people have a scarcity of clothing choices, and when they do have choices they tend to be several times as much as ‘average’ sizes? 

So thin people are told that they cannot get organ transplants until and unless they lose weight?

So thin people are told they can’t get chemo until and unless they lose weight?

So thin people experience mass discrimination by the healthcare field, refused care, bullied, and abused in nearly every instance, such that something like a thin-friendly list of doctors has to be kept and maintained for the reference of thin people who don’t want to be abused by healthcare professionals anymore?

So there are studies showing that more than a majority of healthcare professionals, including doctors and nurses, find their thin patients disgusting and would prefer not to touch them?

So there are lauded studies showing that thinness is contagious?

So there are lauded studies showing that thinness contributes to global warming?

So there is a national campaign run by the first lady of the US to eradicate thin children? 

So being a thin parent is being used against them in custody battles?

So magazines are full of fat people?

Son most television shows center on the lives, romances, thoughts, aspirations, struggles and success of fat people? 

So the average status-symbol woman is a ‘fat chick’ and the average status-symbol man has ‘moobs’?

So most rich thin people pay to gain weight?

So there’s a 60 billion dollar weight gain industry in the US alone?

So thin people earn less on average than fat people?

So thin people are told by many adoption agencies, private and government, that they aren’t healthy enough to adopt by virtue of their thinness?

So thin people are considered so subhuman there’s a special question just for them on dating sites to the effect of, “Would you consider dating a thin person, or would that be a dealbreaker?”

Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

(note: don’t fucking tone-police me in an ask later, either. And enjoy your weekend doing whatever the fuck you want, while fat people are treated like dogshit if they try to go to clubs or even step outside the fucking house)

(for references/citations of many of the statements alluded to above, read This is Thin Privilege)

(made rebloggable by request)

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thisisthinprivilege:

Let’s cut the bullshit here, even if every single idea that’s currently common about the negative health effects of being fat was true, the way fat people are treated would still not be justified. Most of the time, people who say “I’m just concerned about your health” aren’t. There’s sometimes some genuine concern for health in there, but the core is often the same old hateful ideas about fat people, and the idea that because they don’t prefer fat bodies, they can police yours. The fact that some fat people are unhealthy is so often used as a reason to target all fat people everywhere.

And people are, or should be, free to do with their bodies as they wish. Yes, even if they’re doing something unhealthy. People should be educated about health in a respectful way, and then have the choices left up to them. You don’t get to force someone into health because you’re more comfortable with it. This is not me saying, “Everybody should get fat,” or, “Nobody should care about their health,” or, “Trying to become healthier is evil!” This is me saying that it’s wrong to try to become the guardian of someone else’s body if they haven’t asked you for help.

Health is not an excuse for hatred.

(submitted by anon)

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Today I was told I shouldn’t get a sweater dress because “horizontal stripes don’t really work on all body types,” according to the salesgirl at H&M (which, by the by, doesn’t really carry my size).

Sigh.

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redefiningbodyimage:

truthforsooth:

thisisthinprivilege:

Thin people swinging their hips while walking is “sexy”; fat people swinging their hips while walking is “waddling”.

I have a limp that makes my gait funny. Because I’m huge, people say it’s a “waddle”. On a slender person, that gait would be described solely as a “limp”.

This is an intersectional thing, as the thinner person would be asked all kinds of invasive questions about how their leg got damaged and their support devices, if any. On a fat person, though, everyone assumes that the damage is due to fat.

In my case, an on-the-job injury was never treated right and I will never walk without pain or be able to support my weight properly on that leg again. Hence, the “waddle.”

“everyone assumes that the damage is due to fat.”

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