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Perils and Perks of Privilege - Thin
- Dyson LG Vacuum commercial - Commercial demonstrates vacuum's top-notch sucking ability in an unusual way. - vids20122
- Dealing with Body Shaming at the Doctor's Office - A video response by Gorda Poretsky who is a certified health coach who was answering a viewer question that wanted to know how to stop criticizing fat women and to find fat more attractive. Gorda says an approach to find fat more attractive is to recognize the cultural pressure of being fat in our society. She suggests to view art exemplifying curvier women and to just begin to touch and regard yourself with love. - Gorda Poretsky, 10/13/2013
- I Believe In You and Me - A Weight Watchers commercial on body shaming. - Jennifer Hudson, 12/22/2011
- Too Overweight to Shop - What Would You Do stages scene in which overweight shopper is mistreated in upscale boutique. - ABC News, 03/16/2012
- Disney Slimmed Down An Iconic Figure, And Here’s Why That Was A Really Awful Thing To Do - Poet Melissa May celebrates Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid for her curvy figure and attacks Disney's redesign of the character. - Rebecca Eisenberg
- Fat People Reprimanded By Waiter | "What Would You Do?" - A waiter reprimands an overweight woman by herself at a restaurant. - TheWWYDShow, 07/24/2013
- Fat Bride Insulted By Skinny Mom | "What Would You Do?" - An overweight daughter is insulted by her mom for not losing weight for he wedding. What would you do? - TheWWYDShow, 07/24/2013
- Calorie Police Patrol Supermarket Aisles -What Would You Do stages scene in which woman disparages overweight woman for buying junk food in supermarket to see how customers will respond. - Eric Hanan, 11/6/2013
- CBS WKBT News Anchor's On-Air Response to Viewer Calling - News anchor Jennifer Livingston responds to email that criticizes her for being overweight. - Michelle Castillo, CBS News, 10/02/2012
- "I'm Fat, But I'm Not..." Proves Stereotypes Wrong in Under Two Minutes- Buzzfeed, 9/28/2015
- Teasing Kids About Their Weight May Make Them Gain More - School can be tough on kids who have overweight or obesity. They're often cruelly teased and bullied. And this type of bullying may lead to long-term consequences, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatric Obesity. - Susie Neilson, 05/30/2019
- New Study Finds that Fat Female Applicants are Less Likely to get into Graduate School - An article that discusses about a new study out of Bowling Green State University which has found that fat applicants to graduate psychology programs were less likely to be offered admission following an in-person interview. - Lesley, XO Jane, 07/24/2013
- Fat Shamed to Death - An article that deals with the excerpts from the letter of a a self-described “overweight, Black woman in her late 30s”. - For Harriet, 04/02/2014
- Being called 'fat' may increase obesity risk for girls - This article is about a new research from the University of California Los Angeles that suggests that if a girl is called "fat" by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher at age 10, they are more likely to be obese in their late teens.
- Reflections On Thin Privilege and Responsibility - The article goes over the authors privileges she has gained over the years because of her thin frame. She goes into how these social constraints of thinking have caused wight to justify ones value. It has become a source of discrimination as big as gender and race. Then it goes into further detail on the pressures of being and staying thin. It ends with how you can break these social boundaries by being more accepting. - Linda Bacon, 2010
- The Demise of Average: The Rise of Large - I saw the image on the right on Pinterest and pinned it to my Weight Loss board. I wanted to laugh out loud when I saw the pin, but I refrained because the truth is that it’s just not that funny.
- This is Thin Privilege - It is a blog that contains short passages on different examples of how they have been affected by thin privilege or how they've experienced the privilege themselves - A combination of multiple authors/bloggers
- Confessions of a Minority Darling - "CBS anchor Julie Chen got slammed for her decision to have plastic surgery to look less ‘Asian,’ but many minorities have felt pressure to succeed by making sure to fit in." - Helen Wan, 9/17/2013
- Check Your Privilege: The Body Image Edition - Upworthy talks about what the real issue concerning body image and the way we talk about it. - Amy Leigh Strickland, 4/6/2013
- Fat Men Are A Feminist Issue - Looking at the relate between fatphobia and misogyny. - Virgie Tovar, 10/30/2013
- Let's Talk About Thin Privilege - An article about thin privilege from a privileged perspective. - Melissa A. Fabello, 10/25/2013
- 'What's your excuse?': Fit mother's Facebook post ignites controversy - Maria Kang posts a picture of herself in a sports bra and workout shorts newt to her three children. She titles the image with "What's your excuse?" The image gets thousands of notes and responses ranging from people who took this image offensively or defending Maria Kang for posting the picture. - FoxNews, 10/16/2013
- Alyssa Milano fires back at Jay Mohr's fat jabs - Celebrity Alyssa Milano retaliates to fat shaming remarks she received at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series awards. - Ann Oldenburg, 1/3/2014
- Obesity Doomsday: Report Calls for Hard-Hitting Anti-Fat Campaigns - After a report suggesting an "obesity doomsday", health ad campaigns have begun taking on a more severe quality, as with the anti-smoking ads. - Hannah Osborn, 1/13/2014
- Fat Activists Loving the Skin They're In - A group of women encourage people to be healthy and fit no matter what their weight. - Jordan G. Teicher, 7/28/2013
- The Biggest Loser And The Eating Disorder Epidemic - Lee Wolfe Blum - “You did it! You won!” exclaims Alison Sweeney, the host of NBC’s The Biggest Loser on the season finale last night.
- Let's Talk About Thin Privilege - Melissa A. Fabello, 10/25/2013
- Fatphobia: 5 Facts and a Guide for the Disbeliever - Kitty Stryker, 10/19/2014
- Walmart apologizes for 'fat girl' costumes - Saeed Ahmed, 10/28/2014
- 9 Facts That Shatter Bullsh*t Sterotypes About Fat People - Julianne Ross, 11/11/2014
- 22 Examples of Thin Privilege - Shannon Ridgway, 11/30/2012
- Being Thin Didn't Make Me Happy, But Being 'Fat' Does - 02/17/2015
- 5 Effective Ways People with Thin Privilege Can Fight Fatphobia - Julie Feng, 04/12/2015
- Why Our Culture Is Obsessed With Thinness - Patricia Corrigan, 06/04/2015
- 5 'Fat' Women Pose In Lingerie To Reclaim The Stigmatized Word - Alanna Vagianos, 08/04/2015
- A Running Magazine Put A Plus-Size Model On Its Cover And People Are into It - Sally Tamarkin, 07/23/2015
- Making Weight: My final physical therapy session - Daniel P. Finney, 08/20/2015
- Before You Dismiss the Concept of Thin Privilege, First Ask Yourself These 4 Questions - Melissa A. Fabello, 06/01/2015
- Lane Bryant plus-size commercial banned by NBC, ABC due to 'indecency' - theGrio, 03/11/2016
- Weight Bias is a Major Reason that Students are Bullied in Schools- Yake Rudd Center
- 22 Examples of Thin Privilege- Shannon Ridgway, 11/30/2012
- Let's Talk About Thin Privilge- Melissa A. Fabello, 10/25/2013
- Too Large to Fail - A 40 year old woman puts her life on hold to care for her morbidly obese brother. - Lionel Shriver, 6/4/2013
- Fat-shaming - Big Deborah Snacks
- You are more important than this number
- 7 lbs. 6oz is just NOT realistic!
