microaggressions:

I decide I want to be a vegetarian, and my mother agrees to support me if I talk to a nutritionist about how to get enough protein, B12, etc. The nutritionist spends our entire appointment measuring my body fat, talking about portion control, and, as a side note, mentioning how good vegetarianism can be for weight control.

nerdyargyle999:

I don’t really understand, it feels like you left a detail vague intentionally so you could make yourself look like a victim (not the first time I’ve seen that on M.A.), which is why I hate some of these things.

Seriously? Seriously, you think somebody made up a story about experiencing fat stigma and then posted it anonymously, just so strangers on the internet would think they were a “victim”?

Generally, if you go to the doctor/nutritionist/whatever about a specific health issue, you expect the doctor to focus on that issue. When they ignore the issue and focus on shaming you because of your weight (and your gender, since doctors fat shame women more often than men), it makes sense to get mad.

fyeahpdp:

Privilege Denying Gal - Brunette
[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White woman wearing a plain white t-shirt with long brown hair. Her arms are folded over her chest and she has an incredulous expression. 
Top text: “ [There is no such a thing as sleeping disorder.] ” Bottom text: “ [You just don’t put in enough efforts on fixing your sleep cycle] ”]

I get this all the time from my mom… my sleep disorder involves sleep talking and walking and other things that I do while I’m completely asleep. Yeah, if I put in enough effort, I could definitely make myself stop doing things I’m not even conscious of in the first place. :\

fyeahpdp:

[Picture: Background: 8 piece pie style color split with red and teal alternating. Foreground: White guy with glasses and light shadow wearing a sweat shirt over a button down and short black hair. Has a smug, arrogant facial expression and crossed arms.
Top text: “It’s wrong to kill another living thing just so you can live.” Bottom text: “Why are you bringing up plants? They aren’t really alive.”]

I try to take everything on PDP seriously because I hate oppression olympics. But this doesn’t even have enough information to tell if it’s privilege denying or not. Unless it’s seriously saying that there’s non-plant privilege. Wut?

fyeahpdp:

Privilege Denying Gal- Blonde
[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White woman wearing a long sleeved blouse and silver bracelet with long blonde hair. Her arms are crossed over her chest and she has a smug expression.
Top text: “Vanilla privilege” Bottom text: “was made up by people who want to be oppressed”]

From a comment on a feminist site. Obviously everyone who lost their jobs because of their bdsm sexuality just wanted to feel unprivileged. Same goes for everyone who’s been told by counselors that all their problems are because of their kink and they need to be “fixed”. And all the people who are ignored when they report abuse from their bdsm partners? You guessed it, they just want to be oppressed too.

Another PDP that made me think. Honestly, I think vanilla privilege has a lot more validity than things like nocturnal privilege (which ties more into able-bodied privilege than being its own form of privilege).

I’m pretty kinky and it’s never been an issue for me, besides being misunderstood by my friends. But it sounds like other people have faced very real discrimination because of it.

fyeahpdp:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with pink and blue alternating. Foreground: White woman wearing a long sleeved blouse and silver bracelet with long blonde hair. Her arms are crossed over her chest and she has a smug expression.
Top text: “I’ve been up for five hours!” Bottom text: “You should be out of bed by now.”]

Thanks, Mom.  And by the way, when I tell you I am tired and I don’t feel good every time you try to force me out of bed and yell at me because I don’t just wake up and bounce out of my room faster? It’s not an excuse, it’s true.  (Is there such a thing as diurnal privilege? Because I feel like there should be.  I’m not sure if I have insomnia or if I just legitimately function better at night.  Possibly both.)

PDP never fails to make me think… I’ve never thought about diurnal people being more privileged than nocturnal people.

I’m not nocturnal, but my disability causes extreme fatigue. Sometimes I sleep for 12+ hours and still wake up too tired to accomplish anything. So I definitely get shamed for oversleeping, and sleeping late, and being “lazy,” even by people who know I’m dealing with fatigue. Drives me crazy.

fuckyeahchubbyguys:

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I would so wear this if it was in girls’ sizes.

pocketfulofstarlight:

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