The words “Thin privilege is never having bodies like yours described by your favorite authors like this.” on a blue background. There’s also an ebook screenshot that reads, “Abd el Atti himself. He was almost as short as I and almost as wide as he was tall. Before affluence got the better of his figure he must have been a handsome fellow, with soft brown eyes and regular features. He was still something of a dandy. His outer robe was of salmon-pink cashmere and he wore a huge green turban, perhaps in order to increase his stature. From behind, which was how I saw him, the effect was that of a large orange balloon surmounted by a cabbage.”
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Thin privilege is never having bodies like yours described by your favorite authors like this.

ByLindley Ashline

Through a 20-book mystery series, this author — one of my favorites, whose books I re-read regularly — never describes a thin character as a series of inanimate objects. There’s also never a fat character who’s just a normal person: each one is venal, foolish, unintelligent, sluttish, tacky and/or evil in some way.

Poor Abd el Atti appears for exactly one scene before he’s murdered.

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