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Are You Aware of Your ‘Thin Privilege?’
Mar 22nd, 2014 by Matt.
I would say that it’s a probability that if you have to advertise online that you are “fit and trim,” you probably aren’t. However, if you actually are, do you know that you’re getting hidden and unwarranted advantages due to “thin privilege?” The latest enemy, according to a new application of social justice, are people that are in shape. Those evil people; that watch what they eat, and probably even exercise, are achieving an unfair advantage over those that don’t. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at the “Thin Privilege” Tumblr page that has been put up to explain how the healthy are evil…
Thin privilege systematically reduces each of us to our dress size, hip measurement, and waist size, then grants favors, opportunities, or simple lack of punishment when the numbers are low enough.
When you have thin privilege it doesn’t mean that your individual experience of being thin is necessarily positive, or that you haven’t been called names or discriminated against. It also doesn’t mean that every single fat person feels stigma as keenly as another. Some fat people might have grown up with supportive families in supportive environments and never encountered the kinds of fat stigma other people encounter.
Thin privilege is a social phenomenon that exists as a function of fat stigma, and it exists regardless of someone’s personal experience being thin or fat. Fat stigma is real, pervasive, and forceful. It invades entertainment, science, news reporting, advertising, sports, business, family planning (like adoption and fertility treatments and being called an abusive parent by virtue of you or your child being fat), education, dating/love/sex/marriage, fiction, travel, academia…. and on and on and on.
Stigma and privilege exist regardless of whether we, personally, experience them. And though I’m sorry thin people get shit for their weight — that’s wrong, and contemptible — it doesn’t obviate thin privilege or fat stigma.
Further, thin privilege is not about eating disorders. ‘Thin’ is the social state of thinness, the state of being seen and/or physically accepted as not fat. There is no consideration here why someone is fat or not fat.
If you are thin, you are the problem, and you are receiving unfair treatment! You #$@& jerks, you!
cont...http://conservativehideout.com/2014/03/22/aware-thin-privilege/
Mar 22nd, 2014 by Matt.
I would say that it’s a probability that if you have to advertise online that you are “fit and trim,” you probably aren’t. However, if you actually are, do you know that you’re getting hidden and unwarranted advantages due to “thin privilege?” The latest enemy, according to a new application of social justice, are people that are in shape. Those evil people; that watch what they eat, and probably even exercise, are achieving an unfair advantage over those that don’t. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at the “Thin Privilege” Tumblr page that has been put up to explain how the healthy are evil…
Thin privilege systematically reduces each of us to our dress size, hip measurement, and waist size, then grants favors, opportunities, or simple lack of punishment when the numbers are low enough.
When you have thin privilege it doesn’t mean that your individual experience of being thin is necessarily positive, or that you haven’t been called names or discriminated against. It also doesn’t mean that every single fat person feels stigma as keenly as another. Some fat people might have grown up with supportive families in supportive environments and never encountered the kinds of fat stigma other people encounter.
Thin privilege is a social phenomenon that exists as a function of fat stigma, and it exists regardless of someone’s personal experience being thin or fat. Fat stigma is real, pervasive, and forceful. It invades entertainment, science, news reporting, advertising, sports, business, family planning (like adoption and fertility treatments and being called an abusive parent by virtue of you or your child being fat), education, dating/love/sex/marriage, fiction, travel, academia…. and on and on and on.
Stigma and privilege exist regardless of whether we, personally, experience them. And though I’m sorry thin people get shit for their weight — that’s wrong, and contemptible — it doesn’t obviate thin privilege or fat stigma.
Further, thin privilege is not about eating disorders. ‘Thin’ is the social state of thinness, the state of being seen and/or physically accepted as not fat. There is no consideration here why someone is fat or not fat.
If you are thin, you are the problem, and you are receiving unfair treatment! You #$@& jerks, you!
cont...http://conservativehideout.com/2014/03/22/aware-thin-privilege/
Now I have to wait for the wizards of smart in Big Science to help me find a better made-up disorder. 
