Looking at the article Kwan, goes into depth about the invisible knapsack concept and connects that with the body privilege and body consciousness. Witnessing body privilege plays a strong impact on women who consider themselves overweight. This creates the body consciousness to develop. Women and men both see how their own bodies are not being considered when things are being built. “..whereas thin or ‘normal’ sized individuals take things such as chairs, desks, and public bathrooms for granted, women experience these objects as triggers to body consciousness and as a form of patrolling” (Kwan, 246). They internalize those feelings and associate happiness with being thin. Thus creates thoughts of surgery to be a person’s last option on fitting
