fatphobia
English
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]fatphobia (uncountable)
- Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
- Synonyms: fatmisia (rare), fattism, obesophobia
- Antonyms: fat acceptance; fat fetishism
- Coordinate term: see Category:en:Phobias
- Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism
- 2008, Lee F. Monaghan, Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study, Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 1:
- This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).
- 2009, Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall, Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.
- 2012, Abby Weintraub, “Truce”, in Virgie Tovar, editor, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion[1], Seal Press, →ISBN:
- From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.
- 2021 March 9, Maura Judkis, “People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it”, in Washington Post:
- There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.
- Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.
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[edit]fear or dislike towards fat people
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