But he doesn't get to have his own personal Africa when a billion people actually live there. It doesn't work that way. And the fact that his Africa, of nature and roaming animals, is much more widely known and accepted as universal than are the actual circumstances under which most modern Africans live is because…

And all of those countries have people in them. If the theme is "African Wildlife," call it that. If I said my baby's nursery was "America" themed, and I decorated it with Black bears, alligators, and deer, people would find that a little strange, even though America is a single country, and all of those animals are…

Right? How does that awful post have 40+ recommends? Oh, right. Jezebel.

I specifically emerged from lurkerdom to ask: are you serious?
1. "Africa" is not a theme. It's a continent with lots of different countries. Nobody would have a "North America" themed baby room.
2. " Africa" is not a "place he proposed"—he proposed in a particular country and city.
3. He is not directly responsible for…

But if your wedding, or living room, were to be Europe themed, it would include things that reminded you of multiple specific countries that you visited, yes? If you were just going to have baguettes and pictures of the Eiffel Tower, you wouldn't call it Europe, you'd call it Paris. Calling something Africa themed…

Oh wonderful, Africa themed! So it will also boast sprawling urban cities, a massive desert, frozen mountains, and sweltering rain forests? No?

Well then, my dear prince, you are thinking of "Savannah" theme. Not Africa. Geebus.

Unless he proposed to her in 55 different countries, he proposed someplace vastly more specific than "Africa." Conflating the African bush with all of the continent is deeply problematic and ahistorical. I don't care if he wants to decorate his baby's room with hippos and bushes, but I do care that when he says…

I don't think it's always a problem, but in this case he's pretty specifically referring to East or Southern Africa, whereas countries north of the Sahara, or along the Horn of Africa have quite different climates, wildlife etc. It's kind of comparable to saying "We're going to have a Europe theme with the Eiffel…

Yes, but rarely would people say "I'm going to a European restaurant", "I love European music", or "European people are so tall". Instead they'd say "I'm going to an Italian restaurant", "I love Irish music", or "Swedish people are so tall". We acknowledge Europe as a continent yet we understand and separate its many…

Yep. Those are some completely nonsexual vulvas. Seriously, the pics look really simple and informative! A lot of diversity in shape, too. Although... it'd be nice to see some diverse skin tones/ethnicity. And for god's sake, you're a university, guys. YOUR STUDENTS ARE AWARE THAT VULVAS EXIST. For god's sake, my…

Quit being purposefully obtuse. The problem here isn't Lindy, who in fact claimed to have thin women's backs. The problem here are people commenting here who claimed the following:

Ok, so here's my thought on this. I am a queer black female. I have a really hard time not rolling my eyes at the idea of thin privilege, especially when compared to things like sexism or racism. A really hard time, just on principle. Because it sounds like white women doing that thing where they make everything…

Eggs, sure. It's the hash browns I can never get right.

And some people's heads will explode if you even suggest that thin privilege is not on the same level as race and sex privilege in America.

I don't understand why suggesting that thin privilege varies and depends upon/interacts with other forms of privilege is oppression olympics. But if we understand the concept differently, so be it.

Yes. Because you know me and know my life and know all about my privilege.

I feel like there should be a word for that. Something to do with how all these things... intersect.

I'm with you completely. More and more this is all coming across as a way for over-privileged white people to claim an axis of discrimination and solidify victim-hood.

America loves white thinness. America loves young, white thinness. America loves perfect, white, young thinness that isn't too lanky or small chested (remember Olive Oyl?)

Can we stop treating this as a zero-sum game? (Addressing some of the responses I'm seeing, not Lindy.) I say this about patriarchy all the time, and I'll say it about weight policing and beauty standards: