Fatphobia

What the fuck is fatphobia? What are you saying to me? I'm not afraid of blobs like you.

Fatphobia is harmful to the health of fat people.

Fatphobia does not help fat people lose weight.

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.