The two examples I’m going to give are probably just a couple out of many.

So, The Sims 4 is coming out in 2014, right? Right now news is slow, almost nothing new. However, they did have a few live feeds, and I watched one where they were showing the pre-alpha (I think) Create-A-Sim. I don’t know how many people have noticed this, or if they did notice and just didn’t care, but the slider they showed for the Sim’s body type had a donut on top and an apple on the bottom.

(image from this site)

Of course, if you go towards the donut, the Sim becomes fatter, and if you go towards the apple, the Sim becomes thinner. The woman showing us this even described the Sim getting fatter with “If you eat donuts all day…”. I mean, really? Did they really have to put a donut and apple on the weight slider instead of something, I don’t know, more neutral and non-stereotypical?

The second example is something a close friend of mine told me. She was playing The Sims 2, and she wanted her Sim to be fat, so she made her gain weight. She then noticed that her Sim, once fat, constantly had thought bubbles of food. At first my friend thought that it was because her Sim was at the maximum level of her culinary skill, but then she recalled that when her Sim was thin with it maxed out, she didn’t keep having food thoughts. Not nearly as much as when she was fat, apparently.

So, I guess thin privilege is people assuming you’re healthy just because you’re thin, and thin privilege is not being stereotyped as thinking of nothing but food constantly just because you’re fat.