Thin privilege is not seeing a guy at church catch your eye, start up a conversation, and start hanging out a lot. Thin privilege is not having him encourage you to believe that he’s pursuing you, and then finding out that not only has he been hitting on your thin housemates behind your back, but has actually sent them emails stating that he could never find you attractive because you had “left yourself go” and is simply using you as a placeholder until he finds someone hot enough to date. (Fortunately for me, my housemates were wonderful women who not only told me what was going on, but made sure he was never able to contact me again.)



I had pretty abysmal self-image issues before that. After? I didn’t even attempt to let a guy know I liked him for the next 7 years, and the only reason that changed was because my boyfriend told me that he liked me first.