Phrases like thin privilege seem weird to me. and I noticed that leftist sre quicker to assume are sctionarcy skinny.
I whould have thought it have been the opposite? outside the west arent the poorest people skinny? not saying that weight determines you as privileged or not.
dont think skinny people face medical discrimination. and I can confirm that fat people in the global south are also medically discriminated against, worse then in America, that's what my cousin says. well she says the American doctors are better in everyday too so that's probably the reason. she has to come here for chemo.
Not in the same way, but there's definitely discrimination against anorexics and diabetics and folks undergoing weight loss from cancer treatment and illness.
There's a fetishization of thinness certainly. But that's often as bad as being shamed, as you're functionally lauded for your poor health.
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you have a strange perception about the global south. most of my family is fat and they live in abject poverty worse then anything you'd see in America. like the real world isn't like those save the Children ads. like you can on youtube right now and of those poverty porn vids, most people are not emaciated, you'll see far more fat people. also, this is all heavily dependent on the geography of where people live as well. go to the Caribbean, go to the ghettos, people are very fat, I don't know what to tell you. most people eat fast food everyday because they don't have time to cook and there are no walkable spaces. this is true for most of the global south. have you spent time in an actually poor country?/ sincere. edited to ad tone indicator.
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sure I agree with that but I just feel like this whole convo is veering a bit reductive. there's clearly a lot of nuance, and every single country is different. plus there are different levels of poverty of course. also last thought. if you live in the west, and your talking about your healthcare system I think its ok to just talk about your country's conditions, I think everyone understands that things are different in like mail then in America.
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yeah im very sorry but i do not understand what you are trying to say at all besides the sidenote. also I in no way was making an accusation it was a genuine question, that im still courious about, i wanted to know where you were coming from because what you are describing is so different then my experiences. If you have been in a counrty thats in civil war i think that would explain the disconnect. most working poor people are not in those conditions. i added a tone indicator. but yeah its a very valid question that was meant with no hostillity.
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People who are emaciated because they lack food have that physique as a product of their lack of wealth privilege. In the west, the opposite is true for the same reason: People who are obese have that physique because fattening foods are cheap.
This is further compounded by the fact that lower income earners not only have less free time generally speaking for physical exercise (indeed, many of the poorest people in North America have no leisure time as they've filled whatever would have been free with second and third jobs), and even in this overworked state still cannot often afford extraneous expenses such as gym membership.
So-called "fat shaming" in the west is especially hurtful for exactly the same reason that an equivalent "thin shaming" would be in Chad or Yemen, because in both cases the person in question is a victim of their circumstances.
nobody's said that starving makes you "privileged". you won't face weight-based medical discrimination if you're starving but you obviously have other problems. there's no tier list of oppression