alimarko

everysmilealie:

Your privilege lies in the reality that you think you do.

And you benefit from a society that tells you:

1. thinness is right and thinness is natural
2. thin is pretty and healthy
3. if you’re not thin, then you should fight to be thin

If that were no longer supported, you would not be special and you fear that loss. The loss of your privilege.

You live in a word that is constructed so you feel comfortable and justified in your thinness.

You feel comfortable and justified because there are people who you think and feel shouldn’t be comfortable because you believe their bodies are unjustifiable just because they are fat.

Attempting to lose weight/be thin is far too often equated with (or even considered better than) personal betterment in the same vein as intellectual development or emotional discovery. And I’m so tired of the assumption that people who work hard to lose weight (or are even just naturally skinny) have better ~self discipline~ or “self respect,” and/or that it makes them better people. No, it doesn’t. It really, really doesn’t.