TW: “Positive” Fat Self-Shaming
A friend of mine is absolutely driving me up a wall because he’s losing weight. It’s obviously not THAT he’s losing weight, but how he talks about it. He started trying to lose weight when his doctor said that according to the BMI he was obese - as if I need to talk about how reductive and harmful the BMI is here. He was having some health problems, then he had a scare and was really scared into losing weight. Which is all well and good, if misinformed, but the reason why his health is getting so good is NOT because he’s lost weight, it’s because he eats MUCH healthier now! He cut down the amount of “junk food” he ate and started buying less processed, more fresh things, started cooking more.
THAT is thin privilege: perpetuating the myth that fat is unhealthy without even giving it a thought.