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Topical Term
Discrimination against overweight persons
Use for
Anti-fat bias
Fat bias
Fat discrimination
Fat oppression
Fat shaming
Obesity bias
Obesity discrimination
Oppression, Fat
Overweight bias
Fat bias
Fat discrimination
Fat oppression
Fat shaming
Obesity bias
Obesity discrimination
Oppression, Fat
Overweight bias
See also
Overweight persons
Physical-appearance-based bias
Physical-appearance-based bias
Found in
Work cat.: Fat oppression and psychotherapy : a feminist perspective, c1989.
Shadow on a tightrope : writings by women on fat oppression, 1983.
Fat oppression and psychotherapy, c1989.
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)
Google search, May 6, 2011 (fat oppression; obesity bias; overweight bias; anti-fat bias; fat bias)
OED online, viewed Dec. 7, 2023 Fat shaming ("The action or practice of mocking, humiliating, or stigmatizing a person deemed to be fat or overweight")
Shadow on a tightrope : writings by women on fat oppression, 1983.
Fat oppression and psychotherapy, c1989.
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)
Google search, May 6, 2011 (fat oppression; obesity bias; overweight bias; anti-fat bias; fat bias)
OED online, viewed Dec. 7, 2023 Fat shaming ("The action or practice of mocking, humiliating, or stigmatizing a person deemed to be fat or overweight")
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