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femmesandfamily:

[tw body image issues]

Use what you feel is necessary, edit out the rest, there’s some personal accountage in there…~MsQ

1. Thin folks don’t have to go into a clothing store and experience the awkwardness and embarrassment about the limited or non-existent plus-size section; sometimes the plus-size section is really small and placed in a special area of the store, which can be convenient and/or humiliating.
2. No one assumes you’re single because of your weight.
3. No one makes ableist assumptions about you because you are fat (i.e. you must be in a power chair because you can’t control your eating).
4. Thin folks don’t have to worry about clothes and shoes, especially the stylish ones, being priced beyond what they can afford.
5. Thin folks don’t experience comparing themselves or being compared to their thinner relatives in their immediate family or friends because they actually are fat.
6. Seats everywhere being just right or too big for you, from planes to school auditoriums while fat folks have to squeeze in or get out. 
7. Thin people aren’t looked at funny, talked about, or pointed at when they eat a lot in public.
8. Yeah, there’s the airplane thing with seats and seat belts. And just space in general. I have so much anxiety and embarrassment over the moments when I get on a plane and I might have to ask for one of those extenders. It happened once. Then I developed a nasty habit of guesstimating how much weight I’d lost by how well I fit into the sit and if the seat belt was tight, snug, or kind of loose.
9. Using the word “fat” gratuitously as a joke or to describe things, entities, or people that aren’t actually fat even though it is potentially triggering for people who actually identify as fat or who aren’t within the range of the prescribed weight/height for their age (usually people who prefer not to be called fat because of psychological/physical abuse or bullying, like I used to be)
10. There are images of thin people everyone and less fat-positive images and role models.
11. You are typically not charged for your weight, like when stores up the price on one of two identical outfits because the other “took more fabric to make”.
12. No one will most likely ever suggest that you get potentially life-threatening surgery to lose weight or invasively quiz you about your weight during a doctor’s visit.
13. If you say you’re being bullied, people will most likely not tell you to lose weight to make it better.
14. Comedians and actors don’t put on body suits and prosthetic makeup to humiliate and dehumanize you.
15. If you’re not working class or living in poverty, no one will question your diet/eating habits or judge you as a glutton or slob from a glance by questioning your grocery shopping habits.
16. If you’re not a person of color, your thin privilege is even more invisible.
17. Your sexuality is not silenced, ignored, made fun of, fetishized, or erased because thinness is socially acceptable even if your health is in danger.
18. You are not silenced, ridiculed, ignored, or erased because of your weight.