thisisthinprivilege:

Didn’t pay attention to the FAQ, did you?

Fat oppression, like many kinds of oppression, exists along a spectrum. Small fats have more privilege than superfats. Someone who wears size 18 clothes has more privilege than someone who wears size 26.

You know how much shit you have to put up with at a size 18. Imagine how much more shit you’d have to deal with if you absolutely could not shop in any brick and mortar store you could get to by car? If you had to order everything you wear online? If none of it was “suitable work attire”? I have friends — ones who live in large West Coast cities — for whom all of that is true.

When the average women’s size in the country is a 14, and a “plus size” line marketed under the name of one of the more famous “fat” (used advisedly; fat for an actress is not the same as fat for anybody else) actress starts at a size smaller than the average, and only goes up to two size larger than average, can you not see how bigger fats might be upset?

You’re not too thin to be oppressed. But you have a lot more privilege than people much fatter than you.

-MG