Fatspo
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fatspo is a noun meaning (informal) Material created by and/or intended for fat people that promotes body positivity.
Meaning
(informal) Material created by and/or intended for fat people that promotes body positivity.
More Meanings
- (informal) Material created and/or used to inspire weight loss by presenting fat people in a disparaging manner (associated with online communities encouraging eating disorders).
Example Sentences
To this end, some fat activists began promoting the use of a fatspo tag. By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse of what bodies are aspirational. They attempt to reclaim the narrative back from those who engage in fat shame.
I searched "what I eat in a day" on Twitter to see how the conversation had translated to that platform, and the results were horrifying. The most popular results were from "pro–eating disorder" accounts who reposted the TikToks as "fatspo," sometimes even estimating the calories consumed in plus-size creators’ videos so they could revel in their disgust.
Antonyms for fatspo
Common opposites include thinspo.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.