Big & Beautiful Thread of Sizeisms

[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.

[Cryptoplasty]

The time these people spend writing and reading these terrible blogs could instead be spent giving themselves the luxury of thin privilege. The average blog takes what.....20-30 minutes to write? Add to that the READING of the blogs, and you have yourself an hour of getting up from where your sitting and getting active. The internet is an enabler.

[riley-o]

I don't disagree that thin people have it better or even that they have it a lot better. But like Crypto touched on, most of us do work to not be fat pigs. No one is required to do that work and no one is required to be thin, but for the vast, vast majority of people, a choice between hard work and healthy diet, vs not those things, is being made, and there are consequences for that choice. Physical, health, societal, and emotional consequences. Is that fair ? Well, it's hard to argue that your body's response to your diet and lifestyle are unfair. The societal consequences might seem unfair, but at the same time you can't really argue for people to be attracted to you, which seems to be a common end-point for a lot of fat-acceptance women. Or to have fat bodies celebrated, when it's inarguably less healthy for most people.

[The Bill]

Thin privilege?? They must think Africa is over running with prima donnas.

[spacehamster]

Honestly, I think the biggest problem is that these people have convinced each other that it's not their fault they're fat and there's nothing they can do about it. Once you accept that, all the other bullshit follows logically. It's another one of those internet hive mind things that we talked about in the fedora thread, where ridiculous ideas suddenly gain traction with some people because they can find enough others that agree with them.

[Raw Ting]

I would love to see a study of people with slow metabolism/thyroid etc. Issues where the subjects eat unprocessed foods at a calorie deficit and work out 30 min. 3-4 times a week for 3 months....

[Zap Rowsdower]

Is there reputable science out there that gives a ballpark percentage about how many people actually have something glandular or fucked-up metabolism-related that would make it harder than the simple "calories in, calories out" equation? I read these articles and follow up comments and it seems that many, many people insist that for the vast majority of fat people, weight loss simply can not be done.

The problem isn't an overactive/underactive thyroid. It's just cookies are delicious.

[Necrometer]

there's that research about the liver virus (?) that helps you be fat, but even that's not a full-on determinant (lots of are obese without it and non-obese with it)

[Zap Rowsdower]

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

Size'd

[Black Jacques]

Can you give me the Reader's Digest plz

[a world of no]

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

sloot

[Raw Ting]

I wonder if the guy got arrested?

[Broken Into Pieces]

lost it at "I wanted to give you time to get back from your second lunch"

[FVBTVS]

why dont you save your sisters life too?

[takeasneededforpain]

Is there reputable science out there that gives a ballpark percentage about how many people actually have something glandular or fucked-up metabolism-related that would make it harder than the simple "calories in, calories out" equation? I read these articles and follow up comments and it seems that many, many people insist that for the vast majority of fat people, weight loss simply can not be done.

As I understand it, it's something like 3% of obese individuals are obese due to thyroid issues or the like. The rest are fat by poor diet / lack of exercise.

I'll see if I can track that information down...

This is unrelated to the legitimate biological causes of obesity... but the studies linked and referenced in the 5 sections provide MORE than enough backing science to make the statement that they're fat because of their CHOICES...

http://www.gnolls.org/3484/can-you-real ... a-calorie/

[Raw Ting]

An extremely vocal 3%

[Zap Rowsdower]

Oh so I see they're claiming the lack of personal accountability isn't real and their problems are the result of the plot of "The Happening," but instead of suicide it's an invisible wave of fat.