What does fatphobia mean?
Fatphobia means Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity..
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.
Use fatphobia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fatphobia means Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity..
Common synonyms include fatmisia, fattism, obesophobia, sizeism.
Possible antonyms include fat acceptance.
Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism
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