Thin privilege is being able to fully enjoy the work of someone you admire.

I was watching The Ricky Gervais Show on youtube, because 99% 9f the time, I think he and Stephen Merchant are hilarious, and love to hear their (and of course Karl’s) commentary on things.

But every time they mention fat people, it’s in a terribly derogatory, fat phobic, hurtful way. It’s despicable and makes me feel bad for enjoying all of their other work and thoughts. It’s really, really disappointing to admire someone, and then find out they have such a negative view on people of your body type, even going so far as discussing locking fat children in a cupboard to keep them from overeating. It made me physically ill to listen to it.

(So far, Stephen Merchant’s never actually said anything of that nature, but he has chuckled along to Ricky and Karl’s comments, which is still terribly hurtful as he’s my favorite of the bunch.)