A girl I went to school with often posts statuses on Facebook about how “fat/chunky” she is, talks about how much she eats and how she “needs to do exercise to work off the fat lol”, usually met with heaps of likes and a heap of people commenting about how they eat heaps too and “ironically” calling themselves ‘fatties’. About an hour ago she wrote about how she “ate so much, I practically inhaled it!!” and hashtagged it with #fatlife and #fatty4ever. Thing is, she’s stick thin and always has been (as are the people who frequently comment on her posts), and I can’t help but think that if she actually was a fat person, her proclaimations of how much she’s eaten and how fat she is wouldn’t be met with such a positive response. She’d actually probably be faced with a shit-ton of hostility if she were fat. It really pisses me off.

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Mod note:

It’s also quite literally appropriating actual fat lives – hashtags like #fatgirlprobs and #fatlife are overwhelmingly utilized by young thin women.

I mean, damn, we don’t even get to use our own fucking hashtags. Thin privilege is feeling entitled to both thin and fat hashtags, apparently.

-ATL