I just wanna say that I really appreciate thus blog!

Thank you!

controversial opinion

you are not better than fat people!

even REALLY fat people!

even fat people who don’t put a lot of time into their appearance!

even fat people who wear clothes you think are unflattering!

your appearance literally does not make you better than a fat person. you are not more fun to hang out with because you’re not fat. you are not funnier, smarter, or more interesting by virtue of not being fat. you aren’t harder working, you don’t have more self-control, you don’t have your life more together.

the only difference between you and fat people is that they have to put up with a lot of harassment, discrimination, exclusion, and other bullshit that you don’t even think about.

try not to add to it.

Artist: Look at all of these body types I drew!

Drawing: *Fifteen skinny/muscular people and one (1) fat person*

Artist: BODY POSITIVITY!

Artist: Now please look at my 200 other drawings of only skinny people. This is the only time I will ever draw a fat person :)

Tabria Majors by Bonnie Nichoalds

Thin privilege is having a normal partner.

No fat person in a healthy relationship has a normal partner. Our partners have to have reflected upon and grappled with the cultural stigma against fatness, particularly in beauty standards, and somehow overcome it.

Our partners have to have rejected the constant messaging that fat people are physically and emotionally and mentally less-than everyone else, or have some kind of giant personality flaw, or have some dark hidden trauma that "caused" us to become fat.

Our partners have to have rejected the constant messaging that fat people make worse partners and parents, that we are socially contagious, that we unwittingly/uncaringly contribute to climate change, that we exemplify excessive materialism.

Our partners have to have rejected the media that has equated people with our body types as pathetic, as jokes, as villains.

The partners of fat people are exceptional.

Thin privilege is having a huge dating pool because you don't need an exceptional partner to be treated with basic respect and dignity, as you already have it by default.

Hi, id love to have the link to the reddit post if that's ok! It'd be amazing to have all the sources and stuff in one place to send to people when necessary. You can dm if you'd rather

We just posted it, we didn't write it. You can try contacting the OP directly, or see if they respond to this.

So I made a post to raise awareness about fatphobia in a leftist reddit community. Within 2 hours, it became the second most controversial post of the entire subreddit.

All of that sourcing, all of that listening, even trying my best to appeal to the community, it returned as 0 votes and 31 comments, majority of them just want to insist that being fat is bad. I really don't get it. I had all the sourcing necessary, I did almost the exact same thing as another post criticizing the ableism in leftist communities, with the context, the sources, trying my best to answer to bad faith arguments. What I got in return is the comment section I can't even look at.

"If you put a fat people in an island they'll become thin", "fat people is why there isn't Medicare for all", "being fatphobic is wrong but being overweight is bad" like it's not even two hours in. All the things I've debunked with my sources, like how I mentioned only 5% fat people lose weight permanently, how the medical system is so fatphobic that Medicare for all would mean nothing, and god forbid the last talking point. I don't even disagree that I should do more exercise and eat better, when I started doing so my GPA went from 2.0 when I was dieting to 3.4. I guess I gotta get used to this now that it's part of me and part of what I believe in. 

Thin privilege is people actually listen to you when you speak up.

(sorry for using a new account my other accounts were shadowbanned)

Thin privilege is saving money, or even being able to access air travel at all, by being able to relatively comfortably book middle seats and tight-pitch seats on budget airlines.

Thin privilege is that last-minute $100 round trip.

Thin privilege is being able to afford to visit a dying relative, or being able to afford to be there for a milestone family occasion, or being able to interview outside of the local job market.

Quetelet, the inventor of BMI, was also a eugenicist, and used a single, small population of men, all working class, all in one city, to calculate his values.

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

It reversed when fat became perceived as lower class and thin as upper class. When the people who could afford gym memberships and personal trainers became associated with thinness and fatness with "lazy" lower class people sitting on couches.

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”

You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.

@fatphobiabusters

@fuckyeahfatpositive

💜

(This is a joke)

I did it, I finally found the Fat Privilege.

My work was celebrating National Popcorn Day (we're a cinema) and they bought a stupid mascot suit to help promote it.

(Five second shitty artistic rendition below)

Anyway, I didn't have to wear it because it was too small for me (thankfully the manager just looked at me holding it up and went "actually, I really want to wear it. If you don't mind", instead of saying something to try to make me feel bad, which I appreciated a lot. Shout out to him for being supportive). My coworker who worked at my station when I clocked out did have to wear it, though.

Good manager!

Thin privilege is representation

Thin privilege is turning on the TV, selecting any movie or series through a streaming app, or opening a magazine and seeing at least one person with your general body type being portrayed for their human qualities and not their physical characteristics.

Thin privilege is getting to be a human with interests and a story. Thin privilege is starring in an adventure or romance or thriller as a human being with a name, interests and a backstory that do not revolve around or at least refer in some way to body size.

Thin privilege is the default, the gray icon, the naked Barbie, the first character setting on any game, the crosswalk stickman, the bathroom stall sign, the sample size, the fitness app default.

Thin privilege is representation.

Thank you for having this blog. I'm not "fat" but my sister could be considered as such. I love her to absoulte DEATH and if ANYONE made her feel uncomfortable in her own body they would have to deal with ME. My sister is my world and she should deserve to be happy with how she is.

So yeah, thank you for this blog. It means a lot to see other people be advocates against fatphobia. Keep up the wonderful work.

Thank you for the nice message! -ATL

Lost bags? No problem!

Thin privilege is waltzing into the nearest store and coming out with something guaranteed to fit over your body.

Thin privilege is not showing up to the important meeting or interview with a rumpled suit or in casual traveling clothes because the airline lost your bags.

Thin privilege is being able to adapt quickly and relatively affordably to unexpected weather in your travels, or to a an unexpected outdoor hiking outing, or to an opportunity to swim or do other activities that require nonstandard clothing.

Folks in this thread: if you ask to be tested or treated for a particular condition, you can request that a refusal to tested/treated be put in writing in your medical record.

Why does this matter? Because doctors do not want to have a paper trail that can be used to argue malpractice. So when you ask for the refusal to be noted in your file, and the reason for refusal, it can be enough pressure to make the doctor reconsider their refusal. They may, then, offer to test you just to not have the risk of a paper trail should you have grounds to sue them for malpractice in the future.

Source: my wife is a medical doctor and was the first person to tell me about this "one neat trick" to get doctors to stop refusing tests and treatment. However, it's a well-known method that you can research for yourself.

Remember, your doctor is just a person, and they don't want to do more work for the same amount of time spent per patient if they can avoid it. We think of doctors having a "calling" but to the vast majority of doctors, as in any profession, it is just a job. You have to be pushy and confrontational in order to get a reasonable level of treatment, particularly if you are in a group that is institutionally undertreated and mistreated by the medical establishment.

This sucks and isn't fair and should be changed, but until it is changed, we need to go on the offense. Bringing a friend who can advocate for you is also a great option for people who are less confrontational. I don't know if a study has been done on it, but by virtue of sheer human nature, it's less likely you will be medically bullied in front of a witness. And your advocate can speak up for you, if you are feeling shy.

-ATL

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.