Thin privilege is definitely being able to get a job. Thin privilege is not being considered lazy, especially when you’re working two jobs. Thin privilege is not being considered unintelligent, especially when you graduated college with honors.

I am so sick of getting interviews and not job offers. Yeah, I look wonderful on my resume, don’t I? A teacher who has experience with gifted students and special needs students. A teacher who still volunteers her time to work with various teen-centered programs. A teacher who, while in college, did work with an educational psychology professor on a research project while still an undergrad. A teacher who has glowing recommendations from people saying that her lesson plans are creative, inventive, and really grabbed students’ attention.

You all sound so nice when on the phone with me. And then I get to the interview, and you see my fat body, and suddenly I’m somehow not that amazing person you saw on paper. You hire people who are mediocre and thin. You hire people who didn’t even study the subject in college, but merely took a test and passed who are thin. You hire lazy people who are thin.

And then you send me your cute little e-mails, “Oh, you were great at the interview, but we decided to go with another candidate.” And when I e-mail back and ask what I could do differently, you come back with some vague, “Well, there’s not anything you could really do differently, it’s just that we looked at different factors and decided this person was better suited.”

You can’t claim it’s experience because I have experience and the people love me. You can’t claim it’s due to a poor interview because you already told me I did a great job. You can’t claim it’s a certain skill they have because I look these people up, and they don’t have anything over me.

But what they have is thinness. That’s it.

Mod note: Also true of many other types of privilege, especially male and white.