I don’t really know how to make this into “thin privilege is…” so I’ll just write the thing that happened to me today. I’m a high school student and at my biology class today we discussed somthing like society’s problems and how to help them. There came a few suggestions about more education and providing jobs, and then came the “fat problem”, and my classmates had the following suggestions:

the government should ban fast food restaurants so fat people go somewhere else to eat and also then thin people wouldn’t get fat from eating fast food;

there should be “obesity tax” so people who weigh over 260lbs would be encouraged to lose weight

My teacher AGREED with those ideas and went on talking about BMI. I personally am not very big, I’m 167lbs but I’m the heaviest of my class, and I know a lot about BMI as doctors calculate mine all the time, so I told the teacher that BMI is not accurate at all. He looked at me like I was being completely absurd.

tw: [mentioning of eating disorders]

And I also find it kind of sad that there were many ideas to “fix” fatness, while there were no suggestions to fix eating disorders or other serious problems.