#thin privilege

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.

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 👀 😆

in a world full of starving people, you have gorged yourself on so much food that you are the size of three average human beings and you think that isn’t privilege? your biggest problem is that old navy doesn’t carry your size or that an online brand you like “only” carries up to size 3XL and you don’t think that is privilege? you’re mad because you are a frequent flyer and the airline is no longer reimbursing you for the second seat you need to accommodate your size and you don’t think that’s privilege?

i’ve never even been on a plane. how privileged must you be to take flights so often that you call yourself an “advocate” for larger airline seats and special airline accommodations for fat people.

i’m actually so sick of these people and it only gets worse. they want to be oppressed so fucking bad.

signed, a formerfat who absolutely hated their “life in a larger body” and has never looked back

I believe thin privilege is a thing, in that thin people are treated differently from fat people, but I'd rather frame it as a bias rather than a privilege if that makes sense. Societal biases also exist in other areas, such as height, attractiveness, age, and sex. It is what it is.

10 years of fighting suicidality caused by bullying my weight and appearance and I still want to kill myself for being a fat fuck 10 years later because this world is fermented dog shit