Thin privilege is being entitled to food just because of your weight. I have two sisters about two years apart from each other. Both active and eat about the same amount; one glorifies herself and pretends to like salad more than candy but she only says that because that’s what the stereotypes lead her to believe. While the thinner of my sisters says she does not like milk chocolate, she does eat a lot of white chocolate and vanilla visibly, and eats chocolate ‘if she has to’ or thinks no ones paying attention. She eats and exercises about the same amount my other sister (the younger one) does, but both are treated very differently based on their looks.

Ultimately, they are about the same weight, 100lbs each. My oldest sister, the thinner one is about a half a foot taller than the other, and because of how her metabolism works combined with her height, she’s rather thin. My younger sister has a bit of weight to her and that’s most apparent in her stomach, but I honestly couldn’t call her pudgy, it’s just how her weight decided to store itself coupled with the fact that she’s short of her age.

Now, if my parents paid attention, they would notice my sisters eat, weigh, and exercise the same– but they don’t. The listen to my thinner sisters lies about adoring salad and hating candy, and somehow ignore that she plays minecraft for hours a day. All they see is that she’s thin, and that’s where she needs to be.



Now, pertaining to her thin privilege– my thinner sister (Let’s call her R and my “"thicker”“ sister E for simplicity’s sake, here) is praised for eating. R constantly feels she can aggressively and rudely take food off of anyone in our family’s plates, and I’m constantly reprimanded for telling her she can’t. R always goes on about how thin she is and how she needs to eat, and thinks it’s hilarious that mom has to 'persuade’ her to eat candy over salad (which she does anyways.) I’ve often had to stop her from taking food off my or my E’s plate (I’ve long since stopped caring if she takes from my parents plates, which she does even when they’re passing food over the table– effectively knocking the plate to the table and still cramming food in her mouth), and we’re called selfish for 'not sharing’ with R. She’s rather rude in how she acts and hints that E doesn’t need that much food, and so E often (though annoyingly) sneaks food from the fridge and lies to hide it because she feels she doesn’t deserve this food, while R is praised for it. For example, at supper tonight, we had spahgetti. I went to get cheese to put on it because I really dislike my father’s spahgetti sauce, and though he sighed and rolled his eyes he did not stop me from doing so because I’m almost 18 and he’s mentioned often that 'he can’t stop me if I want to be fat’… but, he believes he can still help E somehow. So when I bring the cheese in E says 'I’m using it after –my name–’ and dad chimes in that if he had known E wanted cheese on her spahgetti, he would not have given her so much spahgetti. I thought it was ridiculous, but I kept quiet because he’s always been like this. But then, R takes three massive bowls of spahgetti during dinner. She goes in for thirds, and dad praises her for it and she laughs because she "needs to eat” even though she eats overwhelming amounts already.



She gets three bowls of spahgetti, while my other sister is berated for wanting shredded cheese on top of one bowl of spahgetti, just because their bodies varied in weight distribution, because E was somewhat thicker than R.



That’s goddamn thin privilege.