Thin privilege is being taken seriously by your family, or anyone else, when you point out obvious thin privilege/ fat hate in any kind of situation. Discrimination is discrimination, either I’m part of the discriminated group or not.

Mom, and the others, inequality is inequality. The end. And when I show you examples of this inequality, and explain how this is clearly discrimination, I’d like you not to overlook all my arguments because I’m *overweight and feel the need to protect people like me*.

This makes me angry. Because if I dare remind you that I could be anyone and this inequality would still be here, and it would still be unfair without me pointing it out, you’ll just tell me that I’m *in denial of my weight and that my point of view is biased*. Like it’s related. Because the point of view of an overweight girl like me on fat-hate can only be rooted in self-pity. Obviously.

Mom, you listen to me when I point out cissexism, racism, working-class oppression. Is that because I am a cisgendered white middle-class girl ? Or because these are real existing issues of our society and it concerns us all ? You listen to me when I point out machism and yet I’m a girl. Does it make my debunking of patriarchy less accurate, am I not to be trusted because of my genitalia? No, for machism is real, alive and kicking. Now, how is fat oppression dissimilar ?

Even my own mother does not take me seriously. And this hurts much more than the hate I can get from ignorant people because of my extra pounds. Society won this round by shaping my mother’s mind in such a manner that she will hardly ever take her own daughter seriously on fate hate. She will need others (and it might still not be enough) to start questioning thin privilege. Not that I myself have given up on her or the others but, likely.

I remain confident in the fight against thin privilege because of blogs like this one. Thanks to people like you, I am not a bit tamed. And I’m ready to sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world if that is what is needed to make it a better one.