Discrimination against overweight persons
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Variants
Anti-fat bias
Fat bias
Fat discrimination
Fat oppression
Fat shaming
Obesity bias
Obesity discrimination
Oppression, Fat
Overweight bias
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Sources
found: Work cat.: Fat oppression and psychotherapy : a feminist perspective, c1989.
found: Shadow on a tightrope : writings by women on fat oppression, 1983.
found: Fat oppression and psychotherapy, c1989.
found: Wikipedia, May 6, 2011:Anti-fat bias (Anti-fat bias refers to the prejudicial assumption of personality characteristics based on a visual assessment of a person as suffering from obesity based on physical characteristics)
found: Google search, May 6, 2011(fat oppression; obesity bias; overweight bias; anti-fat bias; fat bias)
found: OED online, viewed Dec. 7, 2023Fat shaming ("The action or practice of mocking, humiliating, or stigmatizing a person deemed to be fat or overweight")
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Change Notes
1989-07-24: new
2024-05-31: revised
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