Thin privilege is an article about empowering people (especially women) to “fuck diets” containing this paragraph (bolded).

“Look, I’m not giving you the permission to sit in front of the television watching socially progressive documentaries and spoon mayonnaise into your mouth, no, don’t do that. If you really are fat, the legit kind of fat where you can’t put on your shoes or fit in a seat on an airplane, that sucks. Lose weight. Stop eating shit and get the fuck off your ass. That last sentence was 10 words long. The weight loss industry made 20 billion dollars last year selling Americans countless, useless permutations of that 10-word sentence. Stop eating shit and get the fuck off your ass.”

So, fuck diets unless you are fat enough that the writer of this article finds you repulsive, and then hey presto, you need to DIET. Let’s move past the part where she stereotypes all fat people as lazy couch potatoes that eat mayo by the spoonful. The part I really love is that she even points out that the weight loss industry makes a shit ton of money you selling you “countless, useless” diet plans that are all essentially “eat less and exercise more” but doesn’t figure out that the reason they can keep doing that over and over is that that shit DOES NOT WORK.

Thin privilege is being encouraged to escape the tyranny of dieting, not being told even in spaces that are supposedly empowering, that your fat ass just needs to fucking diet after all.

Here is the article if you want to wade into that cesspool (http://www.ladybud.com/2013/04/01/fuck-diets/).

Mod note: Not only that, she’s wrong. U.S. Weight Loss Market Forecast To Hit $66 Billion in 2013 (PRWeb.com, December 31, 2012). Compare that to the entire US laboratory supply at $57 billion, the funeral homes industry at $11.7 billion, and child care services totaling $61 billion. -ATL