Meaning of fatphobe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who worries excessively about the fat content of their food.
2. One who has a negative perception of fat people and/or obesity.

Examples

“The Thursday special of sweet/sour spareribs in a pineapple sauce is a joy, but not for the fatphobe.”

“I prefer⟳ this — the pork fat made the sauce a little too oily for absolute comfort, and I am no fatphobe, as you know⟳ — and more pointedly so do my children.”

“And clearly, so do a lot of other ladies around town—you know⟳, the no-cream-in-the-soup crowd, the no-butter-in-the-risotto customer, your garden-variety fatphobe.”

“Here's a perfect reply⟳ to a fatphobe: "It's not my fat you hate⟳, it's yourself. And you have⟳ every reason⟳ to."”

“What if my seatmate was a sadistic fatphobe who would lean⟳ on our shared armrest just to see⟳ me wince in pain as it dug into my hip?”

“Fat girls everywhere thrilled to Tracy Turnblad, Ricki Lake's unforgettable character in John Waters's 1988 movie Hairspray: a round, rebellious teen who remained outrageously self-accepting in the face⟳ of fatphobes.”

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