hey there friends, i have come to bring you another really important message! :) there are going to be a fair amount of images below, so beware!

[image description: text – “thin privilege is feeling pretty. i’ve felt pretty once in my entire life.”]

[image description: text – “thin privilege is getting braces and not being told that you were "ugly enough as it was” before the wires were put in your mouth.“]

[image description: text – "thin privilege is not having to nerve yourself up to go clothes shopping, because for you, shopping isn’t a day long, grueling ordeal that is not ever guaranteed to be fruitful.”]

[image description: text – “that’s thin privilege, being thought to be more qualified to say anything.”]

[image description: text – “thin privilege is being a pretty, skinny, smart, "popular” kid.“]

[image description: text – "thin privilege is planning your wedding and not being worries that everyone will be looking at you as an oversized marshmallow next to your skinny groom and thin bridesmaids. thin privilege is not eloping for this reason.”]

[image description: text – “thin privilege is being "allowed” to wear sleeveless shirts out in public without something else over it to cover your “disgusting” arms.“]

[image description: text – "thin privilege is when your family can find nice things to say about your appearance other than your hair and nails. thin privilege is when you are not compelled to keep your hair and nails looking good just so that you can feel like you’re "winning” at something at family gatherings.“]

ooooookay. this is objectively bad for a number of reasons.

all of these posts perpetuate a massive, and completely wrong assumption about those with ‘thin privilege,’ that paints a picture of every thin person as a secure, confident, conventionally beautiful, person who is loved by all and is never insulted by others – which is an extremely large generalization, and also happens to be problematic.

just because they have thin privilege does not mean:

they are not insecure

they are not perceived as ugly (by small OR large amounts of people)

they are never insulted

they never have issues finding clothes that fit properly

they are always held accountable over those without thin privilege, despite any other variables in the situation

they are never seen as undesirable

do you get the idea?

you are simultaneously putting them on a pedestal and then blaming, shaming, and generally being bigoted towards them, for reasons completely exaggerated and untrue.

i’m not saying every supporter of thisisthinprivilege or thin privilege as a whole acts like this, but some certainly and shamelessly do.

tl;dr - if you think this way, you need to check yourself, because you are not omniscient, and you do not know what occurs in the lives of complete strangers based on something such as weight.

if you really think you can make purely accurate generalizations such as these, then you are being assumptive, and you are not necessarily correct.

-mod k