Thin privilege is not seeing anything wrong with a “special message from Santa” being played on the radio which features him begging people to realise that he isn’t actually as heavy as normally depicted.

In Ireland at the moment, there’s a regular radio announcement being played before Christmas that features ‘Santa Clause’ reading out a message consisting of his own wish list for Christmas. One of those wishes was that people would change the way he is portrayed in cards and on the top of Christmas cakes. His exact words are “I know I’m not Kate Moss, but I’m not twenty four stone!”

I was absolutely dumbstruck by this. Santa is ALWAYS portrayed as a fat, happy, jolly old man. I cannot think of any reason for that to have been included in a “message from Santa”. There was literally no reason to put it in other than to further push the idea that Fat Is Bad into the minds of children.

Twenty four stone isn’t even that heavy! That’s not even some sort of ridiculous, comically exaggerated weight, that’s a perfectly normal weight for Santa, or any person, to be!

Pretty disgusted with whoever thought it was a good idea to include that line.