Meaning of fatphobia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
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2. Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.
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Examples

“Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism”

“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).”

“Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.”

“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.”

“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.”

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