Here’s another thing…
This post brought up what the whole “fat people on airplanes” *thing* hinges on for me:
This privilege is being a victim of a problem instead of the scapegoated “cause.”
Fat airline passengers do not design the planes. They do not build the planes. They do not purposely make plane seats smaller so they can cram more people onto a plane to make more money. The airlines do that. But if someone is feeling squished on a plane and is sitting next to a big person, they choose to blame the big person and not the airlines. They choose to think (and often say out loud) “why doesn’t this random stranger I know nothing about and have no right to judge fatty just lose some weight so we I can sit comfortably?” instead of thinking “why doesn’t the airline make the seats wider so we can all be comfortable?”
Anger at a fat person for being on an airplane is misdirected, not to mention selfish - if you feel horribly squished how do you think a fat person feels? Passengers on a plane are all in it together - everyone is entitled to as much comfort and safety as possible, and it is the airlines responsibility to provide that.
Thin privilege is being able to criticize someone else for merely existing as they are, and blaming them as the cause of your problems, while ignoring the corporate entity who is actually failing at their responsibility to accommodate their customers.