I am not sure how to word this in the form of “thin privilege is…”

I was trying to do research about the way human bodies store fat, and the reasons why certain bodies naturally store fat in the extremities vs other bodies that naturally store fat in the abdomen, etc. Instead of my search results turning up scientific studies on these things, or even regular websites about different body types… I got a bunch of diet websites, “how to lose belly fat/tone upper arms/etc” and stuff about “target weight loss.”

It is really depressing that it should be this difficult to find objective information about body fat storage without being told how to change the body fat. I was feeling fine earlier, but now I feel like an ugly, unwanted freak because clearly the goal of all these websites is to assume that I want to lose weight and tell me how to do it, instead of objectively discussing and explaining the way my body works.

Thin privilege is… finding factual information about your body that does not include value judgements on how your body should be changed.

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Mod note: If you can read/access scholarly articles, you might have more luck on Google Scholar by, say, searching for something like “adipose tissue distribution.” Sorry you’re getting bombarded with fat-biased search results…unfortunately people search a lot more for weight loss in specific areas than they do to actually understand how bodies distribute weight. It’s sad. -ATL