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Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

k0llectable5 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:56:59 GMT

A couple of terms that seem to be bandied around lately. Whats your opinion, do you think such a thing a thin privilege exists? Is fat acceptance healthy?

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

moonflyte — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:08:28 GMT

Fat acceptance is never healthy. Obesity is a killer and is just as bad healthwise as smoking.

I feel sorry for obese people, it's not easy to stop the bad habits but it can be done. Thin privilege? what is that exactly?. Now the mindset of entitlement that's another thing.

Obesity is a drain on the health system just like smoking. It's a lifestyle that is never acceptable.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

opmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:11:17 GMT

There are lucky people who can eat and eat and eat

Anything they like and never put on an ounce of fat

That's a privilege

And there are other unfortunates who put on weight

Just by walking paSt a cake shop

That's a privilege to the owner of the cake shop

What ever way you look at things

There are always two sides to a coin

Some people hate being fat and spend their whole life trying

To lose weight

Some people hate being thin and spend their whole life trying

To put it on

Some people are happy being fat

And others are so unhappy they just get fatter

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

moonflyte — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:13:02 GMT

Too true.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

k0llectable5 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:41:33 GMT

@djlukjilly wrote:
Fat acceptance is never healthy. Obesity is a killer and is just as bad healthwise as smoking.

I feel sorry for obese people, it's not easy to stop the bad habits but it can be done. Thin privilege? what is that exactly?. Now the mindset of entitlement that's another thing.

Obesity is a drain on the health system just like smoking. It's a lifestyle that is never acceptable.

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Some examples of thin privilege would be:

You’re not assumed to be unhealthy just because of your size, or When you’re at the grocery store, people don’t comment on the food selection in your cart in the name of “trying to be helpful.” Airlines won’t charge you extra to fly.

Stuff like that.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

lal-au0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:45:06 GMT

commenting on what food you buy is just plain rude and only shows that the commentor is a bogun.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

opmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:46:58 GMT

The delusional one opened a thread similar some time ago

And it turned out to be a full on scathing attack on fat people

As this one will also

Give it time

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

punch*drunk — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:54:46 GMT

Airlines won’t charge you extra to fly.

Do they actually charge extra because a person is overweight? I thought they only charged more if the person needed 2 seats, that doesnt really equate to an thin people getting a privelege. In fact if they didnt charge for the extra seat if would equate to the overweight person getting a privelege.

I think you're stretching a bit with that one.

And honestly, how many overweight people are harrassed in the supermarket for their trolley contents? I've never seen that happen. I admit I'm a bit judgmental of people with trolleys full of soft drinks and junk food and they have little kids in tow, I'd never say anything though and its nothing to do with the size of the person, its what they are inflicting on their kids. Plenty of thin/average sized people have really poor diets.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

lal-au0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:54:50 GMT

The delusional one

PMSL

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

opmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:56:14 GMT

Bob

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

k0llectable5 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:02:55 GMT

@opmania wrote:
The delusional one opened a thread similar some time ago
And it turned out to be a full on scathing attack on fat people
As this one will also
Give it time

I hope not Oppy. And I didn't start this thread for that purpose. It's just something I think needs addressing. Because it's one thing to be comfortable in the "skin you are in" But I dont think it's right to promote obesity as something to be embraced and proud of. I understand there are levels of "fatness" so to speak, and lets face it, not all overweight people are unhealthy or unfit, in fact some I'm sure would be more healthy and fit than some thin people. But I'm actually just trying to figure out if there is merit to the term "thin privilege" For example there was a case recently in America where a 302 pound woman was refused a helicopter ride because she was too heavy (The max a person can weigh to ride in a Chopper is 300 pounds) she claimed it was thin privilege that was stopping her from riding in the helicopter...

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

opmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:11:05 GMT

My eldest daughter has always had a weight problem

My youngest daughter had always been thin

The form er met her to be husband and because he loved her so

Much and didn't care how fat she was

Early in the relationship she put on So much weight and got

To about a Suze 24

She said she would go into a dress shop and the assistants

Would snigger at her and most of the time wouldn't even

Come over to serve her

She lost all that weight before having children and kept it

Off and has been a Suze 12 for about 8 years

Even got to a 10 for her wedding

Oh another thing she said was people would say

You have such a pretty face

Which eluded to her weight without even mentioning it

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

jessicadazzler97 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:13:15 GMT

I've been everywhere from a size 14 to a size 8
Everywhere from 70kg to 54kg
I thought I was too fat, then too thin
But the whole time, I ate healthily, and walked nearly an hour every day
And still do now
I realize now I was unhappy with my weight & size
(Whatever weight & size I was)
Because at those times, my life wasn't so great
And it gave me something to concentrate on

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

lal-au0 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:13:42 GMT

if you want service in a shop wear a flanny (druggie shirt). shop owners/assistants come out of their hiding with lightning speed to "help you"

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

opmania — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:18:00 GMT

If there is a weight limit of 300 and she is over then that's just

Too bad

She is probably thinking that is a personal crack against

Her and if they were to show an official document stating

Such then she should be convinced that it is not

Or there should be a Plaque on the wall of the chopper

Somewhere

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

k0llectable5 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:22:48 GMT

@jessicadazzler wrote:
I've been everywhere from a size 14 to a size 8
Everywhere from 70kg to 54kg
I thought I was too fat, then too thin
But the whole time, I ate healthily, and walked nearly an hour every day
And still do now
I realize now I was unhappy with my weight & size
(Whatever weight & size I was)
Because at those times, my life wasn't so great
And it gave me something to concentrate on

70kgs though is hardly obese Jess. And depending how tall you are 70kgs could very well be your ideal weight.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

jessicadazzler97 — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:50:16 GMT

I know that, but some people feel "fat" at 70kgs, others at 170kgs. If you wanted to go into the ins & outs of who is obese at which exact weight, you should have stated that at the beginning.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

lyau086 — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:27:00 GMT

@jessicadazzler wrote:
I know that, but some people feel "fat" at 70kgs, others at 170kgs. If you wanted to go into the ins & outs of who is obese at which exact weight, you should have stated that at the beginning.

How bloody rude and condescending.....Consider yourself told secondhand-wonderland.

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

jessicadazzler97 — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:36:54 GMT

Simply repeating what others have said to me many times over 😛

Re: Thin Privilege vs Fat acceptance

***super_nova*** — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:39:54 GMT

I would not say that thin people are privileged, it is more that overweight people are handicapped. I was a skinny kid wanting voluptuous figur, then I got some curves and struggled all my adult life to keep my weight at level i am comfortable (around 60kg for my 173cm). If i am more i am more tired, and uncomfortable. If i eat well, good healthy food in reasonable amount I keep my weight the way I want it. Some people choose not to be disciplined enough, and that is their right, up to a point. But with the extra weight there are consequences. They will find that it is harder to get a job etc.

When i buy a seat on a plane I expect that seat to be wholly mine, and not to have some obese person spilling over the arm rest.

Also hospitals have real problem with obese people who are admitted and cannot be properly treated because the nurses cannot find their veins to get tests needed for their treatment. When i had my cancer surgery, on my ward out of 20 patients 3 were there purely waiting in hope the nurses will be able to get some blood out of them; they were there for weeks before I came, and looked like staying indefinitely when I escaped (i discharged myself with all the tubes, under condition that i pop in every day to outpatients for service). No wonder that our hospital system is not coping.