Thin privilege is being able to wear pants with a word across the butt without having to bend over so the rest of the letters pop out. "What's 'Rs' stand for?" **Bends over** "Ohhhh...'Roots'."
The motto "real women have curves" I think is just as hurtful to skinny women. You are telling them that they are not a member of their gender because they do not fit into the physical characteristics of the gender that describe you: "curvy" Oh, and by the way: Curvy: Chunky: Learn the difference
Alright, I've only made it through about half that article, but... This is a surprise to her? Like what is she saying, that neither should be valued over the other? I should be just as attracted ("value") an obese woman as a healthy woman? Our attraction is based largely on our evolutionary-bred desires and instincts, no? Part of the reason someone values/desires someone else is because somewhere in their brain they're envisioning potential children. Most people, on paper, don't want their kids to be fat. Doesn't that count for something? Why did she put dangers in quotes? Is she implying there is absolutely no danger in making your heart work way harder than it evolved to? That there is some conspiracy among doctors to make fat people think they are going to die young because Step 2.(blank), Step 3. Profit? Is she referring to the government trying to put healthy foods in school and encouraging citizens to eat better/exercise more so that other people/the health care system doesn't have to cover the costs of one of the most preventable causes of death? This is a bad thing, according to her? She writes like being 300 pounds, regardless of height (and I'd wager there is a tiny fraction of the female population whose healthy weight is 300 pounds), is just a thing that happens to people, all the time, and if we find anything weird about it, that's our problem. Ugh. I'm gonna stop there. I'm not saying that people should go out and bully fat people, but it seems like the only real effort these people make in their lives, is in trying to make 'society' conform to what they look like, just because they're too lazy to change it. Outside of fat fetishes, people are naturally disgusted by morbidly obese people because it's not natural. All it shows (in most cases, anyways) is that they are simultaneously more privileged and more lazy than almost all humans to ever exist in history.
No. The government is literally waging a war on fat people. They've tanks, bazookas, blubber-buster bombs and everything. Literally, a war . . . on fat people.
They'll just hold up bowls of German Potato Soup and the Fat Army will quiver and wretch on the ground. It's their kryptonite.
Just because of this? This is actually the fourth or fifth google suggestion when you start to type german potato soup.
It's tough for the morbidly obese to gain the necessary momentum to skewer themselves on those spears. We'd have to get them all on rascal scooters going downhill, and you bet your ass I don't want to be on the other side of that amount of inertia. In seriousness, I think we need a massive nanny-state overhaul of both our agriculture and healthcare system to have any chance of cutting down on the fatty population.
Some people fear a post nuclear war Armageddon, I fear a fat-pocalypse, where the fat people take over the world and persecute the skinny people. To me, the later is much more likely.
There will be Rascals with cop lights. Every restaurant will now be trough buffets. The "Big Brother" announcements over the country-wide P.A. System will include wheezing. The new favourite topping on pizza: pizza bagels. And we won't get any. The Thin Privileged are given all the rice cakes and food that grows in filthy, filthy dirt from the filthy, filthy ground. The world's most popular sport is Magic: The Gathering. Now there are 472 different selections of Frozen Breakfast Pastry because all Meijer is now is frozen processed food. KFC employees wear riot hats. Every airline is bankrupt because the planes can't have fire exits at every aisle. Wal-Mart is doing fine. EDIT: I guess for a Fatpocalypse you could use the same defense as a zombie one:
I honestly can't tell if people are mocking the article posted or not (the thin privilege one), but it's actually pretty good and a really smart and nuanced critique. If you really can't tell the difference between that and Tumblr whining, than you're probably dumb.
Christ on a bike... After reading some of that site, I want to develop a site called This Is Sane Privilege. I'll fill it with shit like: Wait a minute... I didn't catch that end part until I tried to modify it; are they trying to be the subject of a lizard meme?
Yeah you're late to that party. Whatever you can think of, that tumblr exists. For example, Intelligence privilege. Tumblr activism has basically crossed the Poe's Law rubicon, where parody and real content are indistinguishable. I honestly can't tell if this one is legit. It seems like it should be parody, but I can't really be sure.
I was just reading through some of the posts. It has to be fake, right? I mean, they are just creating words at this point. Plus, I think by calling it "intelligent privilege" is poking fun at all the other groups who claim to be at a disadvantage by claiming they are without a certain privilege. Because every other blog of this type basically calls everyone else who doesn't fully agree with them stupid and an oppressor. And they generally think they are more open-minded and intelligent. So this blog is making fun of all them by claiming that we can't help it if we are so stupid. STOP USING YOUR INTELLIGENT PRIVILEGE ON ME! I could be wrong, but I doubt anyone would own personal stupidity like this.