Thin privilege is finding a site like this one and not breaking down in tears because you’ve been told for so long that your body means you are shameful, lacking in self-control, gluttonous, unworthy of respect, and hopeless, and here - here - is somewhere where people are fighting back; so you read through pages and pages, and despite the stories being often horrible ones of discrimination directed at people your size, you find new heart in the fact that these are people like you, and they are not staying silent, and maybe you shouldn’t either, shouldn’t keep biting your tongue because you are shameful and not worthy of a voice according to everyone who’s ever raised you and forced you on diets and torn you down - maybe you have a voice and you should use it.

Thin privilege is finding a site like this one and not feeling like you’ve finally found somewhere that understands the daily exhausting grind of being fat in this world and the intermittent extraordinary discrimination that occurs in healthcare, employment, education, and everywhere else in society where we, the pariahs, dare to try to set our fat feet.

Thin privilege is finding a site like this one and laughing at it and forwarding it to your friends, never knowing that one of your fat friends (who you are increasingly shunning) will read it and break down in tears, even as your laughter rings in her ears.