uglyyville replied to your post “Thin privilege is not having weight loss brochures left anonymously at…”

“… discussing with a lot of fats lately….” Wow. Dehumanizing much? JFC, I thought the whole fucking point of this blog was we want to be treated like humans no matter how we look, but no, we’re just piles of adipose tissue.



This is one of those in-group things, where members of a persecuted group often reclaim a term that is insulting when it comes from someone who is not a member of the group. Fag, dyke, queer are all well-known examples. If you don’t want to be called a fat or fatty, we won’t call you one, but it’s not dehumanizing for us to reclaim the word among ourselves. It’s a way of protecting and reclaiming ourselves.