Skinny privellege

[Annabella91]

Why is there shops full of clothes for women who are skinnt but nothing bigger i hate going clothes literally can never find anything in a size 16 it's all size 6 and 8 is the fat back in the 90s discrimination trend coming in again?? Shouldn't need to skinny to look nice??

I do think it used to be in the 1990s that there just weren’t any nice/fashionable clothes in bigger sizes and that “encouraged” people to slim down, being obese wasn’t seen as normal as it is now and being really fat was an exception. Now with body confidence movements everything is available in all sizes and it’s acceptable to show your body whatever size it is, so there’s no incentive to be thin. This is probably good for people’s state of mind, but not necessarily their health when taken to extremes.

Do you struggle with reading comprehension?

It's hard to take that article seriously when it references that obsese people don't want to visit the doctor because they're afraid they'll be told to lose weight through diet and exercise. That isn't discrimination, that's sensible medical advice. If someone chooses to ignore that advice, or refuse to visit to doctor because they're afraid that's what they'll be told, that's on them.

Obesity costs the NHS £6bn per year and is set to rise to almost £10bn by 2050. I don't doubt that there are genetic factors that predispose people to weight gain, but people need to take some accountability for their own health.

I think you are unreasonable to use the word ‘skinny’, as someone who is slim I find the word offensive. To me it’s the slim persons version of the insult ‘fatty’.

This is just a kind of confirmation bias.

If you want an item and it's sold out in your size, you're going to notice. You won't notice the rails where all that's left is your size.

Except for size five shoes. I swear that's all some shops sell.

This. I am a reasonable size 10 in my 40s exactly because I don’t eat “whatever I want whenever I want it”, and I’m moderately active. I could still eat better and do more exercise. When I was in my 20s and super thin/fit it was because I was under eating and over exercising and people constantly and often rudely commented on my weight. You can piss off with your “skinny privilege”!

I am slim and throughout my career I've experienced unwanted comments and jibes primarily from women about my weight/size/shape. Recently I was told to "go and get some cake and ice cream" by a female colleague who told me I was so thin I looked ill (I'm size 8-10 with normal percentage body fat). A previous role I had to stop eating in the communal kitchen due to all the comments including about what I was eating (usually a pasta salad/home made soup or similar) with unpleasant Jibes about me being obsessively healthy. Always a dig when I turned down a biscuit (I don't have a sweet tooth but eat way too many crisps!).

I've been bullied by female managers due to their own issue with my figure, and have felt like I've had to be extra nice and accommodating to fit in with cliques (mostly female) in the workplace. If a male colleague has complimented me (appropriately) female colleagues have literally turned on me. It's not a privilege in a pretty much all female workplace of that I can assure you.

Thin privilege is the set of inherent advantages that living in a thin body provides a person in our society because thin is considered the default setting for a human being.

Who writes this crap?

FFS.

I do not like the word 'thin'. It's judgemental. It implies being underweight.

Being slim is how we were for hundreds of thousands of years because we had to chase animals to find food and farm the land, and never sat by the TV ordering Deliveroo or popping into McDs.

Look back at photos of people in the 50s- 70s. Hardly anyone was overweight. Women had 24" waists (then classed as a size 10.)

Anything outside of M&S and Next seems to have moved size choice to their online shop. Really annoying. Also quite a few are moving their 16+ sizes into the 'plus size' ranges. According to Adidas and Nike 16 is XL and that's where their 'normal' range sizes stop. Not sure why they think bigger women don't need joggers, leggings or sports tshirts and bras.

In all likelihood, she can. The overwhelming majority of overweight people do not have anything medically excluding them from losing weight.

You just find they can’t be bothered to exercise/cut down on their intake so it’s an easy out to blame it on something else.

YABU.

I was sale shopping recently. Could only find size 8s and size 18, 20, 22.

I'm a size 10/12 and they're usually the first sizes gone ime.

What a load of bollocks 😂

@Cuppsoupmonster 'Thin people don’t just eat whatever they want. That’s why they’re thin. You’re acting like it’s an immutable body type which you have no control over, simply not true.'

Of course. Wow, you've just solved the global obesity crisis with one post.
Amazing. Perhaps you could advise the government, schools and the NHS? They all seem to think that it's far more complex than that - the dodos!

I think there will be a strong overlap for people who feel generally stigmatised (lower income) and those who feel that the doctor will tell them they need to lose weight.

I work in an area where stigma is a huge issue, and you seriously can't underestimate the role that it plays in just about everything for some people.

It doesn't matter how kind or well-meaning some people are, the stigma is like a voice in their head telling them that everyone hates them, judges them, and feels like they're wasting their time.

Skinny privilege? You are being ridiculous with that comment alone.

It's hardly a 'privilege' to be a certain size, is it? The resentful tone of your post is ridiculous!

True, that's my shoe size and they always have them in stock!

What next tall privilege, rich privilege, smart privilege, common sense privilege, your mom wasn't an alcoholic privilege, you did your homework in school privilege, your friends aren't dickheads privilege... ? Where do we stop? Why even stop. Let's give everyone an oppression card.

When I was a size 16, I used to shop in Evans in the sales as there were always plenty of clothes in sizes 14/16 left on the rails.

I worked at top shop in the 90s and anything beyond a 14 in many ranges was kept in the stock room.
I personally think there’s more choice now than ever.

I have the opposite problem. I’m a size 8-10 and can usually only find things in bigger sizes.

I also find there is a lot of ego sizing going on so things are labelled a size 8 but they are more like what would have been a size 12 ten years ago!

Meh I think it’s harder to find middle sizes tbh, went shopping last week and almost every sale item was either 6-8 or a 16!

I find it to be the complete opposite. I'm skinny, finding size 6 in any decent clothes shops is mission impossible. If I'm in a supermarket looking for basics like vests/plain T-shirt's etc I always have to come home with a 10 because I can never find any smaller sizes!

I was looking for a pair of size 12 trousers yesterday in M&S and all I could find were rails and rails of 16-24!

Call it a privilege if you like, but it is a privilege that could be available to you if you make it a priority.