All articles tagged with #thin privilege
Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith discusses the negative impact of anti-fat bias on children and how efforts to fight childhood obesity have led to body-shaming messages. She explores the concept of thin privilege, the need to neutralize the word "fat," and how diet culture harms everyone. Her new book, Fat Talk, delves into these issues.
Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith argues that American diet culture has caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages, and parents can combat this by reclaiming and normalizing the word "fat." Sole-Smith suggests using the word "fat" as a neutral descriptor, saying it helps "take all the power out of the word." She also argues that efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused larger, systemic problems to be obscured, including childhood hunger and poverty. Sole-Smith also discusses the harm of anti-fat bias, thin privilege, and the flawed use of the BMI to measure health.