Big & Beautiful Thread of Sizeisms

[Ray]

oh, that fucker writes on Grantland sometimes... can't say I remember reading anything worth remembering by him. there's a lot of useless horseshit on Grantland anyway.

[Zap Rowsdower]

This one got to me hard. First v. Third world problems...warning, NSFL (dead Syrians).

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

[FVBTVS]

[riley-o]

Thin people will never understand going over budget remodeling their house to meet their favourite indulgences when their other favourite indulgence makes them a pig-monstrosity that can't even fit in a fucking bath tub.

[Gunther]

that can't be fucking real

[Zap Rowsdower]

that can't be fucking real

Even if it's not think of it this way, the people who run that blog constantly delete obvious troll posts. It's been up 12 hours, so the mods there think it's a valid example of fat oppression.

[Gunther]

i'm dying

[FVBTVS]

we all are man

[The Torsion]

http://www.xojane.com/issues/my-picture ... inist-meme

[The Torsion]

I wear a 12. It can make buying shoes at outlet stores difficult, because they tend not to stock as many shoes in 12 as they do 9 or 10.

[Gunther]

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If you want more examples of your thin privilege, just ask.

I don't think there's ever been a thread on this board that's made me as consistently annoyed as this one.

[Necrometer]

Here's a great comment thread making my head blow up. Someone had the gall to say that as a skinny woman, she gets told to "eat a sandwich" by bigger girls and says that doesn't feel good, either. And then it erupts into an amazing debate about how talking about "Thin Shaming" is just as dumb as asking "Yeah, well when is WHITE HISTORY MONTH!" along with a ton of fatties spouting their version of "science" when it comes to metabolism.

http://jezebel.com/this-reminds-me-of-w ... 1179724072

hahahaha-- and now we're just going into deep detail on whose privilege gets top billing...

Ok, I think we can probably agree that while it's easier to be a thin middle-class white lady than a fat middle-class white lady, it's probably easier to be a fat middle-class white lady than a thin black immigrant woman.

And let's not forget those horrible shaming doctors!

One thing, before we get going; it's really time to get rid of the thoughtless bodysnarking caveat "unless you're a doctor." It feeds into the pernicious, dangerous delusion that a medical degree somehow immunizes one against fat prejudice, and study after study has shown that doctors shame, misdiagnose, provide incomplete or actively harmful medical advice, and are generally just as prone to act shitty to fat people for no good reason as anyone else

Also:

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

You have the privilege of shopping at normal stores and having a huge selection of clothing at your fingertips. You don't have to go to the furthest reaches of the few stores that have plus-sized sections only to be met with a huge mess and dowdy clothes. You have the privilege of not being stared at just for being fat (now black, maybe. I don't know about that.) You don't have people giving you diet tips when you are already starving yourself. You have the privilege of people not making assumptions that you are lazy and out of control. You have the privilege of not being confronted with constant articles about being fat and the rude commenters that come along with that.

If you want more examples of your thin privilege, just ask.

what a shit show

it is really really fucked up that these assholes gum up the body acceptance shit (which I am generally in favor of, I think) with their total abandonment of the idea of responsibility. you GOT FAT, you did that, fat didn't happen to you. and if you're smarter than all the doctors in the world, then you should REALLY understand that FAT isn't something inborn.

[riley-o]

I'm supposed to feel bad for you that you have to walk around a store to find a size that fits ? Or you have to buy a bigger bathtub. Or people look at you and laugh ?? When exactly does the oppression happen ??

[Gunther]

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If you want more examples of your thin privilege, just ask.

I don't think there's ever been a thread on this board that's made me as consistently annoyed as this one.

I can't help but be constantly amazed by the constant victim-hood of those in the Fat Acceptance Movement. I also only tend to see white women in the Fat Acceptance stuff. Is it because they feel left out when their black feminist friends get to tell them that they may be a woman but they STILL have it better than a black woman and now they want to up the ante by using the fat person repression thing?

i think your answer is in this wonderful statement

You have the privilege of not being stared at just for being fat (now black, maybe. I don't know about that.)

if i owned any pencils i'd be fucking snapping them reading that.

[riley-o]

Maybe blacks were oppressed ? I don't know, I'm not a historian. All I can tell you is sometimes.. sometimes I can't find clothes that fit.. I'm sorry I can't talk about this right now...

[Necrometer]

[Gunther]

NONE OF THIS IS FUNNY I'M IN A GOD DAMN RAGE OVER HERE

[Ray]

Chimps are often full of rage and fear.

[Gunther]

i fear that one day i might not be able to find medium shirts in america, ray. i'm losing it.

[Gunther]

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. My boyfriend (whom has thin privilege) works at a casino part time while in school (The Bellagio). Today he told me that his work is hosting a weight loss competition to encourage employees to loose weight in an effort to make their staff healthier in order to lower their cost of health insurance. I tired to explain to him that weight does not directly correlate with health and is not a proven cause of disease and he actually got angry with me and called me ridiculous. He said that diet can be directly linked to being over weight/obese and thus can be directly linked to your health or lack their of. Further more he doesn’t see anything wrong with “inspiring” people to lose weight by tantalizing them with prizes and rewards in an effort to cut company heath care cost…. Thin privilege is not being made to compete with your fellow employees by your employer to lose weight simply for monetary gain by that company/corporation. Thin privilege is not having your weight be the basis of a competition in your work place or any other aspect of your life. Thin privilege is being able to go to work and not be reminded by your employer that your weight is a financial burden on them. Thin privilege is a company/corporation organizing a weight loss competition among it’s employees with the ultimate goal being loosing as much weight as possible in a short period of time knowing that your employees will most likely take to extreme diets that will do more harm than good and also blatantly ignoring the vast amount of research that shows an overwhelming majority of dieters gain all of the weight back that they have lost as well as gain weight in the years to come after dieting. Thin privilege is not being shamed by your employer for being fat.

How do I make my boyfriend understand why this is so wrong?

i just want to punch so much.

[Necrometer]

she needs to check her big privilege - thin BF probably can't win that weight-loss competition since he's in shape

[riley-o]

We just had a vendor drop off 40 sample bags of sugar-coated gummy bears; thin privilege means not being obligated to personally eat all 40 bags in one sitting. Check your thin privilege guys

[Gunther]

mail me some of those bags

[riley-o]

I can't I don't have the thin privilege required to stop eating them

[Cryptoplasty]

I don't understand this 'thin privlilege' thing. Are they saying anyone who isn't fat, for any reason, is privileged to be thin? What about people who work their asses off to stay thin. Are they privileged?

I guess I'm not fully up to date with the 'fat excuse culture.'

These are seriously some of the most illogical people I've ever seen on the internet.