Please excuse me if I seem ignorant, but is it realized amongst the "thin privilege is..." Tumblr "community" (I'm not sure exactly what noun to use so that's my best explanation, i apologize) that thin people, me being one, are steadily becoming more oppressed, especially amongst social media sites because of the sudden uprise of fat-positive activism? I know that thin-positive attitudes are still a societal norm overall, but do these fat-positive activists realize that thin girls will soon...

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sexgodsalvatore

face the same shaming that larger women have in the last ~¾ decades? I personally see fads turning back to the 40’s and 50’s when thin women were told that they were unattractive, while more curvaceous women were applauded for their bodies. I fear that thin girls will soon be in the position that some larger girls are in today, with bullying and oppression and what-not. Some fat-positive speakers put thin women down for being thin. I’m just curious as to what you have to say on the matter.

And your evidence for this speculation is…. ?

Sorry, not buying it. Just because there’s the occasional lashback using terms like “real women have curves” — which the fat pos community rejects publicly, by the way — doesn’t mean thin people are in danger of becoming as discriminated against/oppressed (for being thin) as fat people are for being fat any time soon, or ever.

And this: “Some fat-positive speakers put thin women down for being thin” needs to be backed up with some kind of source, because I know of no mainstream, respectable fat activist that would do this.

Also…when in the 40s and 50s were fat women appreciated? The vast majority of pin-ups were thin. They were thin with larger breasts and butt, but they were thin.

I call red herring on this ask.

-ArteToLife