to ask you about different types of privilege women can have? e.g slim, educated

[pepperandapples]

Just that really - what are the different types of privilege that women can have that make them more or less privileged than other women?

e.g able bodied, wealth, education, slim. What else is there?

is height one? how about hair colour and accent etc?

I am trying to understand

I'm inclined to agree with you on this.

I'd been naturally very slim my entire life. Never went to the gym and never needed to watch what I eat.

That was until a few years back when I started taking a certain medication... and suddenly went up two dress sizes! Something I'd NEVER done before.
Neither myself or my husband really noticed as I'm also quite tall, so guess I carried it well (As they say!)
I was certainly not 'fat' by any means but I wasn't happy with my new size at all. I was in constant pain from the pressure of the weight gain on my thighs and knees but the main thing was I couldn't fit into most of my favourite clothes anymore... Ad I have a LOT of clothes.

I had to be slim again.

So... I bought a treadmill, cut out sugar, caffeine and complex carbs (white bread, cakes, biscuits etc) switching to a mostly wholefood diet... and I'm FINALLY - after about a year - back in my favourite skinny jeans!

I still enjoy putting 'bad food' in my mouth from time to time - but looking and feeling great is definitely the priority.
So, for me, being slim is 100% a choice!

Nobody can accuse me of being privileged. I was born in a log cabin that I built myself.

That’s nothing. I was born in a hole that I dug with my barely-formed hands at 9 weeks.

The people of Easter Island would like a word

I do wonder if it’s because they see people like @Anyotherdude and envy eats away at them. Someone who’s successful and popular because they’re brimming with confidence and for whom weight is insignificant. If you spend your entire life fixated on your weight and depriving yourself I guess it might be quite galling.

Bring ‘em on. What about?

They don't have trees. Allegedly.

After I’d constructed and forested an artificial island on which to build the cabin, of course.

Having access to timber is a privilege

So slim is not a privilege. Charachter is

Cannot be bothered reading whole thread, so apologies if someone else has asked, but is this for research OP?

In all honesty, we could get to the point where we say that someone having easy/easier access to pretty much anything that someone else gives them privilege of some sort or other!

Absolutely

Slim? How the fuck was slim your first example of potential privilege in women? Only if the door to your wealthy and stable family was incredibly narrow.

I don't understand the point of this thread. The OP seems to have an agenda, but what is it?

I'm thinking research for an article or essay.

You might find this article interesting:https://www.truity.com/blog/confidence-personality-trait

I think the biggest privilege is having rich parents

That is a myth. Rich parents can be horrendous.

The biggest "privilege" aka luck you can have, is having loving parents, or parent

And so can poor parents be awful. The idea that literally being privileged isn't a privilege is hard to countenance

Well of course, if I were lumbered with awful parents, I would prefer rich, awful parents.

The language of privilege really bothers me. It suggests getting special treatment. Unjust or unfair advantage.

Actually, if fat people are treated badly by society, that doesn't mean that thin people are 'privileged'. It means that fat people are being treated badly and that's wrong and should stop. It's not a privilege not to have doctors blame every health issue you have on your weight, for instance. It should be an expectation.

Similarly the expectation shouldn't be that the police should stop and search everyone without cause, and you're 'privileged' if this never happens to you because you're white. Men aren't 'privileged' because many of them aren't afraid to be out alone at night, as being afraid shouldn't be the default state.

The privilege talk can lead to focus and blame being placed on groups of people who aren't actually doing anything wrong. If a group is disadvantaged, which is what is really happening, the solution comes from looking at why that is and who is actually causing it. Very specific problems that we can try to solve or at least mitigate. Not accusations of privilege just because someone isn't experiencing a specific disadvantage.

Having been both slim and fat I dont really think thin privilege is a thing. Often thin people are more confident though and that can open alot of doors.
I think pretty privilege is fairly common though....and social media and photoshop, etc are constantly telling us that pretty people are somehow more 'worthy'. But then again Ive never been pretty so maybe its just sour grapes!!LOL

I dont think you have encountered the sheer neglect and poverty that some "rich kids" live with, and in houses that social services would never enter. Having rich parents doesn't mean a penny is spent on the child's welfare. And being raised by servants isnt exactly healthy, either

This!