As a middle range plus-sized female, I have learned to embrace my body and all that comes with it. I can wear plus-sized clothing, or I can wear clothing from the non-plus area. It just depends on the make/form of the clothing. This has never been an issue to me, and to be honest, is still not an issue. This article I read though, boy let me tell ya, was a doozy. It was an article about so called "Plus-size privilege", basically an article about how women who are on the line of being plus-size but can also wear clothing in the non-plus size areas are more privileged than those who can wear one or the other. First of all, my initial reaction was to want to slam my head into the wall because this is such a ludicrous thing to even read. Like, what? Who even comes up with this junk? Women don't deserve to be judged on their body types like that, and who cares who can wear what? Women are women, and what section they shop in is no concern to anyone else. No Bustle, you shouldn't have published this article and I'm salty about this whole situation. While yes, I realize this article is from two years ago, so I'm not entirely sure why Bustle felt the need to resurface it on my Facebook page, I still feel that letting others see it is important.

Then, I decided to do a little interweb research to find out more about this subject and wouldn’t ya know it, this term for women was coined by two teenage girls who have no idea how the real world works. They apparently were two girls who fit the description of a "plus sized privileged female" and they wanted the world to know that you should embrace it. Yeah, we should embrace women of all shapes and sizes but the term "privilege" is being thrown around way too much these days. Just because a woman is a certain size doesn’t not make her "privileged". It makes her a person. We're all people, and we all deserve respect. Friends, stay body positive, and eff those beauty standards, because no one has the right to tell you that they are better than you. Celebrate your body, and other women’s bodies, and don't put them down. While the article was written in 2015, it does seem that we still have not stopped using the word "privilege" like it is nothing. Bust down those walls, and the patriarchy. People are people, no matter how big, small, or in-between.