It's odd to me that we have started to call things that give you benefits as "privilege" when everything has pros/cons and is also not always that straight forward.
Yes, being skinny can have advantages to it, but it also has it's disadvantages. As a skinny dude, I've been made fun for it, can get hurt easier, not as strong as your average adult male (impacts fighting, working, etc.), and it's harder to find clothes to fit. I've also known guys who straight up have body dysmorphia over being too skinny.
I am not saying it's as hard as being fat, but it seems silly to me that we throw the word "privilege" around so much. It can be genuinely toxic when people start doing that, since it devalues issues that said "privilege" comes with.
What a time to be alive in which we villainize health and normalcy while willfully neglecting or even encouraging that which we know to be bad or unhealthy.
I think there's significantly less of an argument to be made for "thin privilege" compared to "fat-phobic," or more accurately, "fat-averse."
It's less thin privilege and more fat consequences.
Like, there's definitely social stigmas, but I feel that most people are not so fat that their fatness is the real issue. If someone's beautiful and thicc, they're still privileged compared to an ugly thin person.
But health-wise, there's definitely massive (lol) pluses to being a healthy (aka thin) weight. Joint health, heart health, lower risk of diseases, etc.
The fat people have problems with those issues, but it's a natural consequence of being obese.
it exists but it also doesn't mean being thin makes you proud of your body, healthy, or that you're happy. for my whole life i've been too skinny to the point i've had health issues. like i was hospitalized at one point because of it. BUT i am doing a lot better now and pretty close to a healthy weight
sooo yeah i've had some advantages because of being skinny but i've had some serious disadvantages too. not every privilege out there is sunshine and rainbows
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as a fatty i can't comment on the privilege my friends get who are slim
This will sound harsh, but for the most part calling something "privilege" is just a way to make losers feel better about their failures in life.
As a young man being thin is generally not good and you will get bullied. As a woman, being thin is great and life will be better for you
Better looking people are treated better, this is human nature. Being fat makes you look a lot worse so you get treated worse.
Nope. I’ve always been thin and I got bullied for it and it’s worked against me
it definitely does exist, there’s a ton of fatphobia in society
Although I am hearing it very first time it can be real.
What privileges do you mean?
It's more made up nonsense.
Some bs
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