Thin privilege is not being deceived by doctors promising magic solutions for your problems and hiding all the bad stuff that it could carry.

One of my cousins is married to a very obese woman. I remember the rest of the family always talking bad behind her back, pointing out how extremely fat she was. Not only that, but also she was told she couldn’t have kids cause of her obesity (and it turned out later that it was my cousin who was infertile), but this is another topic.

She recently had a bariatric bypass done, you know, they try to sell this as the panacea, the final weapon agaisnt obesity. I should know, I once had my foot in the surgery room.

Anyway, she did it. And she was on the verge of dying after the staples on her stomach popped, leaving her in a hospital bed with a tube going inside her neck.

Yet doctors keep on trying to push people into this kind of procedure.