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Origins of Weight Stigma #4: Toxic masculinity and sexism
Weight stigma — also known as fatphobia, fatmisia, anti-fatness and fat hatred — ties into threads of power and profit going back centuries. Let’s look at one of the factors: Toxic masculinity and sexism.
Thin privilege is not negated by body dysmorphia, poor body image, or an eating disorder.
Thin privilege is not negated by body dysmorphia, poor body image, or an eating disorder.
We fa…
It’s definitely the fat kids’ fault.
Image description: A fat white baby’s arm is partially seen between an overlapping floral blanket, blue onesie sleeve and the body and strap of a car’s seat and child safety seat. Image source: Al Soot on Unsplash It’s definitely the fat kids’ fault. That was the gist of a discussion I witnessed last week, in…
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{body liberation} Should you be the judge?
Something I often see happen when fat folks talk about something or someone fatphobic is thin folks treating this as optional knowledge. Something they can choose whether to believe. Most recently it was in yet another discussion about Brene Brown, who’s been openly fatphobic her whole career and has blithely ignored the multiple fat folks…
