10:03am July 16, 2013

➸ This is Thin Privilege: Food Police

clatterbane:

thisisthinprivilege:

Thin Privilege is not going to the grocery store and having a total and complete stranger start taking food out of your basket because “Oh honey this just isn’t good for you". Apparently I’m no longer allowed to eat watermelon, nectarines,or tomatoes.  She kept going on about how sugar was bad for me and that I was going to regret my purchases. So now I can’t even eat fruits and veggies? She tried to stress upon me the virtues of water and exercise and just how good it is for me. There are days that I just cannot believe how people can possibly be OK with doing things like this.  I would NEVER in my right mind tell someone what to eat or not to eat.  I know I shouldn’t be surprised but I usually end up that way anyway.  Surprised and angry that someone just by looking at me knows whats best for me. I put my food back into my basket and calmly explained to her what was going to happen if she touched anything else I planned on buying.   She looked like I’d just kicked a kitten or something. This kind of behavior really needs to stop.

I know there are crappy intrusive controlling people like this out there, but wow. :/ The gall to think other people’s groceries/perceived health are any of your business in the first place is hard enough to wrap my head around, that I just keep coming back to the WTFery of fresh fruit only being good for certain categories of people. But, yeah, an adequate and balanced diet is somehow the luxury of people with specific natural body types… :-|

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