Thin Privilege / “Health at every size”
…No.
OBESITY IS A DISEASE, a potentially life-threatening one.
There is no such thing as a “healthy disease” and therefore “health at every size” is not true. There IS a difference between being overweight and being obese. A person can be healthy and overweight in some circumstances. SOME. But the facts say that too much extra weight is bad for a human body, and if you are obese then you are not healthy. It’s okay to be overweight or otherwise not of average size, but being morbidly obese is not okay.
- http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262226.php
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/business/ama-recognizes-obesity-as-a-disease.html
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry/obesity-as-a-disease_b_3606534.html
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/no-healthy-pattern-of-obesity-review-finds-1.2448856
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/16/222064771/calling-obesity-a-disease-may-make-it-easier-to-get-help
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/06/28/declaring-obesity-a-disease-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/
- http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/12/03/study-theres-no-such-thing-as-healthy-obesity/
It is impossible to simultaneously be healthy and obese. It has been proven. If you disagree, stop, because you can't possibly argue against the majority of medical professionals with your single unscientific opinion. Obesity even kills more people than alcohol. They're more likely to die in car crashes, etc.
70% of US adults are overweight and 36% are obese. If your body type is the most-represented in real life, that would give you privilege. Fewer than 2% of adults are underweight and 28% of people are of a normal weight.
And that’s about all there is to say on this particular subject. As for thin privilege, I don’t really understand why people think it’s a thing - especially in the context most SJWs use it. There is no "thin privilege."
The majority of “thin people have it better” arguments are fallacious because thin people can have weight-related problems too. (Bulimia, Anorexia, etc.) Both men and women are prone to eating disorders as well.
Some posts talking about the subject of thin privilege:
- http://thatsnotthinprivilege.tumblr.com/
- http://hagakura.tumblr.com/post/83635893567
- http://hagakura.tumblr.com/post/89033463813
- http://hagakura.tumblr.com/post/58923970141
- http://cosmicallycosmopolitan.tumblr.com/post/68965910710/
- http://veup.tumblr.com/post/52234856319/ (regarding the blog "This is Thin Privilege")