Does Thin Privilege exist?

Thin privilege is the biggest load of bullshit ever

and this is coming from a fat person!

 

Being fat is not an uncontrollable trait. Is it hard to lose weight? Yes. At the same time, the process is simple. Calories in < calories out. The important thing is to stop being sedentary, right?
This is coming from a fat person.

 

um wtf thats the biggest load of shit ever

 

I'm super thin. Am I privileged to have it? Of course not, I hate it. I've been striving for more weight (around 4-5 years) and still nothing.

 

Not really. Yes, fat people are given crap about their weight, but I don't think skinny people are much more "privileged" than they are.

I hate how the fat acceptance movement goes about it. They think someone who weighs 700lb can be healthy, and that's not a good message to send. While people certainly shouldn't be discriminated against for their weight, it's completely absurd to think someone who is obese (meaning someone who is well over their heathy body weight) is going to be 100% healthy.

 

No. People don't have to be fat. Exercise and eat less.

 

For the most part yes, but some people have genetics that makes it a lot harder/can't lose weight.

I'm really skinny, but I hate when people say when someone is chubby they are not attracted. Sure would they be more attractive if they were thinner, but it doesn't make them "unattractive"

 

I'm horribly thin.. An it's no more attractive then being fat. I would prefer a healthy weight.. There is no privilege in being frail and thin.

 

In my school all of the "popular" girls are underweight (although not all of the underweight girls are popular). They get more comments/likes on social media, more guys hit on them, more girls are jealous of them, etc. They aren't well liked and usually don't have successful friendships/relationships. Most of the girls in my group are on the thinner side of healthy weight, except me and one girl who I tend to describe as "curvy". Girls in my group are probably unpopular not because of our weight, but because we THINK we can't be popular because of our weight. Skinny privilege, in my experience, exists because us not-skinny girls think we are less, and not because skinny girls actually have an advantage over anything. We don't put in the effort to be popular because we think we can't be, and the pretty skinny girls think they can.

 

I used to be fat, now I'm not. It takes a permanent lifestyle change and commitment to reducing your calorie intake. Sure it might be hard, and some might never lose all the weight they would like to (I still have some fat I don't think will ever burn), but anyone with a healthy diet and moderate exercise can — and eventually will — look good.
I am lean now, and I have worked for it, and I keep on at it.
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Now as for the matter of thin privilege: I don't think it exists really. People make fun of both ends of the spectrum. And skinny men in particular get a lot of flack for their lack of mass.

 

I think by "thin privilege" it is supposed to encompass people with a healthy weight as well.

But there is a bit of a point there, in my mind. Just in the sense that we build things for the "average" person. Too short, too tall? Too wide? Certain things become harder to do or don't fit properly. And there is a level of judgement assigned to your weight in either direction, even if it isn't something you control. My metabolism in high school got me the nickname "twig", despite the fact that I'd eat more than most people.

There's something to be said about being supportive in order to help motivate someone to maintain a weight in a healthy range (for them), rather than cracking the whip. And the world certainly isn't made for people who aren't within a certain size range. But is it even in the same order of magnitude as something like white, male, or cis privilege in western culture? That one I'm a bit more skeptical about. It seems more like there are many traits, where if you diverge too far from the "default", you get put at a disadvantage or are ignored by society. How much of one depends on which trait(s) you are talking about.

 

Yeah there is. They can go to the grocery store/restaurant/gym and not be judged. You really can be overweight/obese and be healthy. I've got a clean bill of health from my doctor from my last physical. Am I unhealthy?

 

I'm debating whether this example falls under "thin priviledge" or "have lost weight priviledge" - anyhoo here goes...

Some guy at work had lost probably close to 100 lbs over a few years. It was amazing to see how, for some colleagues including management, this magically made him the employee of the year, capable to cure cancer and bring world peace etc... You probably get the idea. Most of his skillset was rather average at best but you'd never guess hearing all the people fawning over him and his new-slimness. Sort of like the incompetent buffoons with a picture on their desk of them climbing a mountain or running a marathon.

Hope he's just as lucky in his new job because based on some facebook photos most of it is back...

 

I don't think Thin Privilege exist but one thing as a thin person no one has ever made fun of me when I walked , but I have been told I'm greedy for getting a second helping . :dry:
I love food damnit :tantrum:

 

I thought the OP requested for us to not discuss it...

 

I don't think thin privilege exists but It is awful how some people treat fat people. onthe other hand, I also don't understand how people try to deny that obesity isn't bad for health. Yes, about a third of obese people can be metabolically healthy and had so signs of heart disease, diabetes, etc. but when compared to metabolically heathy average weight people, they still had a 24 higher percent chance of dying. Also a large portion of the obese but "healthy" were younger and it was shown that overtime they are more likely to become metabolically unhealthy than those of average weight. In these studies there was a big difference between people who fall into the obese range than people who fell into the overweight range. The people who fell in the overweight range only had slightly worse health problems overall than the average weight ones

 

I may be big but I am healthy. Ive proven my former doctor wrong not once but twice. He flat out told me "I was 99.9 percent sure I was going to diagnose you with diabetes." However I have a friend who can eat 20 chicken nuggets and loose 5 pounds yet I eat 1 french fry and gain 25 pounds.

 

I'm not sure I'd put being thin in the same category as being straight, wealthy, male, or white. For guys, it's considered unattractive and laughable, and most models, actors, athletes are more on the muscular side. For girls in my culture (working class Hispanic), they're constantly told that real women have curves, and that bones are for dogs, not men.

When people discuss losing weight, rarely do they have turning into a twig in mind, which is what a lot of us with fast metabolisms are, essentially. I've been bullied, ignored, and questioned, simply for not living up to their standards.

If being called "malnourished" and compared to Jewish holocaust survivors is "privilege", then yeah, you can say I am...