{"id":11124,"date":"2015-07-14T06:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/07\/14\/thecrazygeek-rant-thisisthinprivilege-i-work\/"},"modified":"2015-07-14T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:10:47","slug":"thecrazygeek-rant-thisisthinprivilege-i-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2015\/07\/14\/thecrazygeek-rant-thisisthinprivilege-i-work\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

thecrazygeek-rant<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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thisisthinprivilege<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I work at a daycare with infants.<\/p>\n

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she\u2019ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.<\/p>\n

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, \u201cWhy are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?\u201d<\/p>\n

My coworker replied, \u201cThat\u2019s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

To which the substitute replied, \u201cBut she\u2019s so fat. She doesn\u2019t need it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s too fat to be allowed to eat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?<\/p>\n

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was \u2018too fat\u2019 and had an aim to remove any and all \u2018chubbyness\u2019 so her baby would be thin. She\u2019d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.<\/p>\n

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she\u2019d been feeding her daughter and she said \u201cone bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don\u2019t want her growing up fat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.<\/p>\n

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you\u2019ve got serious problems.<\/p>\n

(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. \u201cThey just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.\u201d = her actual words.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thecrazygeek-rant: thisisthinprivilege: I work at a daycare with infants. One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she\u2019ll take 4 ounces of formula at … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3837,3838,3831,3835,3834,3832,3833,3830,3836],"class_list":["post-11124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","tag-fatphobia","tag-i-am-angry-about-fatphobia-every-single-day","tag-i-dont-know","tag-i-just-want-to","tag-so-mad","tag-so-so-so-so-mad","tag-this-thing-makes-me-so-angry","tag-yell-or-something","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}