#this is thin privilege

[fatphobiabusters]

It says a lot about society that a beach towel that actually fits me is labeled "oversized" on the packaging so that thin people can know which of a select few beach towels will make them feel all warm and cozy and small.

I already buy beach towels to dry myself off with because it's easier than looking for bath towels that fit me, so labeling a beach towel "oversized" because this world is made solely for thin people is just added cruelty. I've been using beach towels to dry myself off with even when I was in the low 200s weight range.

What's fucking wild is that 99.999999% of thin people are blissfully ignorant of what the world is like for fat people. They have no clue what it's like to have to check the weight capacity of a chair on a website before buying it or seeing everything that's the perfect size for you being labeled "oversized." They don't know what it's like not being able to find clothes that fit you at a regular store, thrift store, online store, or even those plus size stores that only go up to a 3XL and just resize thin people clothing.

They don't know what it's like being thankful to learn online that Plan B doesn't work for most fat people before you bought and assumed in a post-roe world that Plan B will be effective. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where everyone freely hates and discriminates against you without even having backlash from progressives and people who claim to support equality, because oppressing you is just accepted fact even to the people who fight for the rights of all of your other oppressed identities. They don't know what it's like to live in a world where hating you is so expected and normalized that it's ingrained into your own people to the point that you literally cannot trust that

anyone you meet

not a single person

who looks like you will share solidarity.

None.

Whenever a thin person suddenly becomes fat, that is the closest we have to a person realizing they've been living in the Matrix. The most intense epiphany you'll ever have is rapidly becoming fat and then seeing how this world changes for you almost overnight.

-Mod Worthy

[burriburi]

“I…”

[thisisthinprivilege]

You know why they just can't "let" us be this way? Because leaving us to our own devices without the burden of constant fat shame would invalidate their unearned social superiority for existing in a thin body.

Thin privilege is addictive. And easy. I've known so many naturally thin people, or people who pretend they are "watching what they eat" but have no idea what it is to diet and deprive and die inside for months and years trying to build a thin phoenix from fat ashes, who think they somehow deserve the additional human kindness and respect and validation afforded to them by virtue of not being fat.

As a fat person, one thing that would be awesome is if thin people could just get over it. People are fat sometimes. It's fine. Chill. We're not a problem you need to solve, we're just a bunch of people who deserve social equality.

I'm not saying you should be all "I don't see size", just that I'm tired of being met with some form of "but I can't just let you be this way". Yes, you can! I can be fat all day and you can just not worry about it! Look at us go!

[areyoudoingthis]

I'm crying real tears because the show about defeating the oppressive powers that be by being queer and joyous and proud and loud has mobilized a bunch of real queer people to be loud and proud and is spreading love and hope and also making it slightly harder for a bunch of rich assholes to erase diversity from their programming

[screamacrossthestars]

i think these onion skins really illustrate bee's ever lasting trials and tribulations in being married to starscream.

[thisisthinprivilege]

"The fatties just want to self-insert" as the romantic lead

Saw a thing on how including a non-thin actress in a major series playing its romantic lead was a ploy by the writers to get money so that "the fatties could self-insert."

"The fatties" are more than 60% of the population. Our love stories constitute the vast majority of actual, real-life love stories. yet the stories we see on TV feature the thinnest 5% of people. Thin people are swimming in self-insert scenarios, far beyond their population representation.

The real question is, why does this much smaller part of the population want to hoard all the fictional love stories for themselves?

It's almost as if the only thing you need to be lovable as thinner is your thinness, while fatter people need to have, like, a personality or be interesting or to not be a terrible person. And some thin people really don't want to have to make the effort to have personalities or be interesting or improve their moral qualities and so don't want fat people competing with them for the default romantic lead on TV.

I see you, thin-privilege-dependent-gremlins 👀 😆

-ATL

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Some people will get soooo offended if you say they are privileged ???what’s the deal with that

privileged=undeserving? it’s morally ambiguous?? privilege=malice??? evil intent?? no!

[greet-the-bloodless-dawn]

@y-rhywbeth2 i can't remember if you've talked about this or not but in case you haven't: how do you interpret the unholy assassins? does becoming one mean becoming a member of a bhaal-sponsored assassins' guild, or the clergy, or a new/local order of specialty priests?

going off of dolor and olfaith olumssdottir, candidates are chosen from people who already worship bhaal and/or do a lot of murder, who aren't already members of the temple--so, non-clergy. narratively, just looking at bg3, it mirrors what shadowheart has to do to become a dark justiciar: go through trials, be deemed worthy, sacrifice a celestial.

all bhaal cultist ranks in bg:dta / bg3 get some amount of god-granted magic abilities but looking at the banites and myrkulites, it seems fair to me to interpret only the highest rank as having cleric-type abilities. if we use the fact that the dead three cults are presented as being symmetric and extend this logic to the bhaalists, it gets us 'night blades' and 'reapers' being non-priest… acolytes? aspirants? lay brothers/sisters? simply congregation members? and 'death's heads' being priests and definitively clergy.

where do 'unholy assassins' go here?

[franollie]

i do sometimes wonder how the gang's chemistry and dynamics would shift if they actually did have to co-parent a baby because realistically none of them should have children. ever. but the idea of dropping a baby in the hands of five incredibly unqualified alcoholics is oh so very amusing to me

[fatphobiabusters]

That person the other day who said they love seeing photos of thin people holding up 3XL jeans to show all of the "hard work" they put into living "the life they want," there's so much I could say about that.

I could explain that any fat person you see has almost certainly put in that same amount of "hard work" to become thin and then watched as their body refused to stay that way.

I could explain basic, unbiased weight science proving that weight loss is only temporary for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain that fat people are human beings who deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and humanity, again for the 4 millionth time.

I could explain and explain and explain, but I'm tired of explaining to people who don't listen and pull their views out of their ass. So instead, I think we should applaud photos of fat people holding up the jeans they temporarily wore as a thin person.

Let's celebrate the fat people who once were a size small. Let fat people hold up their old tiny jeans in celebration of:

Beating an eating disorder

No longer experiencing food insecurity

Recovering from an illness that had caused weight loss

Accepting their fat body instead of abusing themself to become thin again

Leaving an abusive family/living situation where they were starved and/or forced to conform to prevent abuse

Having the genes of ancestors who survived famines

Knowing that there is not a single scientifically-proven method of weight loss

No longer wasting time fighting their body's weight gain from health conditions that cause weight gain, like PCOS

Accepting their body that changed due to pregnancy

Accepting their body that changed due to puberty

Accepting their body that changed due to transitioning

Allowing themself to take the medicine they need to treat mental or physical illness no matter the weight gain side effects

Not listening to harassment from bullies, friends, family, or anyone else who demanded they be thin to deserve peace from mistreatment

Literally just getting older and having a body that has changed with time

Loving themself despite the entire world believing that fat people do not deserve love

Existing, because fat people do not need to justify their body and existence to anyone

And so much more

-Mod Worthy

[bigmouthlass]

Thin privilege is never wondering if your loved ones shy from physical contact with you because their trauma history has rendered them touch-adverse, or if it's because they find your fat body so disgusting no amount of love can make touching you bearable.

[essenceofarda]

"my success is based on my talent alone" says conventionally attractive thin person lol

[bigfatdenial]

Deserve sex? Love? Healthy relationships? What kind of incel logic is this? Fat or thin - the universe doesn’t owe you SHIT. You get what you give, respect included.

Autonomy over medical choices? You gave autonomy up when you blamed being 300+ lbs on “condishuns” instead of choices.

Gurl.

[thisisthinprivilege]

Privileging thinness is about sapping our power

The amount of fat and not-so-fat folks who I've seen in comments or who have messaged me saying that fat positive content has made them more confident proves that privileging thinness is about destroying our confidence and sapping our power.

Imagine if we felt as powerful as we actually are. Women's bodies are policed and primarily their weight in order to sap their confidence and destroy their power in all spheres of life (sexual, romantic, scholastic, professional, etc etc).

Men's bodies are policed and while not primarily about weight definitely about fatness as an "unappealing" softness in order to prop up a toxic masculinity where men are chiseled protectors and where social power is generated by might, not right. This is to destroy the power of men who advocate for non-patriarchical moral value systems.

Privileging thinness and framing fatness as disgusting, diseased, and deviant is a not-so-artful social fiction to distract us from our true power by convincing us that our bodies are our source of power. Society and technology has long progressed past the point where our bodies determine who and what we can be. The only people who benefit from keeping us focused on our bodies are those who stand to lose by us realizing our true power.

Reject and revolt against all moral value systems based on bodily characteristics. They are distractions meant to destroy your power.

-ATL

[keyki421]

Thin Privilege strikes again.

How is this girl gonna complain about the small percentage of Plus Size stores, when she can walk into literally any clothing store and find her size. She can even thrift shop if she wanted to. I hate it when thin people complain when plus size people get offered something. We aren't the minority, but in fashion and clothing we are still treated like the minority.

[tomwambsgans]

these parallels have haunted me forever and splicing up a video was a lot easier than making a gifset