Thin privilege is being able to feel loved by the kinds of people you’re attracted to, because your body is thin. Thin privilege is being part of the “desired” demographic, and not one of the “disgusting”, “lazy” fatasses.

To be fat means to constantly feel as if I must be skinny in order to be beautiful. I’m not sure if that will ever change in my lifetime. It doesn’t matter how funny, smart, or sweet I am; I’m not thin enough for them. And that is why I fight against thin privilege and all those who deny its existence.

(mod note: the beauty privilege noted here is also experienced by other groups that don’t fit in the racist, ageist, ableist, sizist, transphobic mold that is western beauty standards. Also the cis white male privilege in the definition of and importance placed on fitting into beauty standards, which tend to primarily apply to women, warrants mention. -ATL)