Meaning of lookism | Babel Free

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Prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's physical appearance.

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Examples

“"We face⟳ a world," says Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, "where lookism is one of the most pervasive but denied prejudices."”

“This is what I love⟳ about R4 - lookism goes out the window. But in comes voicism. Don't even consider⟳ a career in radio if you're from Toxteth or the Gorbals.”

“Joseph Connor's job as a cook⟳ at a McDonald's in Hamden, Conn., never materialized, and he thinks he knows why — lookism.”

“And those valiant people who fight⟳ lookism (many of them unattractive themselves) tell⟳ us that one problem is that in our society, those who get⟳ to be called beautiful and those who are called ugly are determined by standards arbitrarily set⟳ by us.”

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