Thin privilege is this paper, investigating risk factors of developing osteoarthritis in people with mild hip dysplasia (check pages 4 and 5).



They were looking at three factors: sex, mechanical load (workload), BMI. Now let’s do some quoting.



SEX: “In the present study the prevalence of acetabular dysplasia was similar in men and women[…]”



WORKLOAD: “[…] we stratified for heavy workload and found an indication for a stronger association for persons who had performed heavy physically demanding work compared with those who had performed less physically demanding work.”



BMI: “We also investigated whether BMI is a modifier of the association between mild acetabular dysplasia and hip OA and, surprisingly, we found no stronger associations […]”



I mean. I mean. Surprisingly?! I MEAN FUCK YOU GUYS CAN’T YOU EVEN FUCKING PRETEND THAT YOU’RE BEING OBJECTIVE? Of course, they followed that sentence with a nice string of fat stereotypes.



“A lower activity level in those with a high BMI might explain the lack of association between acetabular dysplasia and incident radiographic OA of the hip in persons with a high BMI.”



Because everybody knows fat people just sit at home and do nothing. Right?

But! But you guys this is science and science is objective and this shit could never ever be published in a serious peer reviewed journal, right? Like, you know, the official journal of the American College of Rheumatology.