fat shaming

Fat-shaming encourages unhealthy stigmatization

I’d like to respond to last week’s article titled “Obese modelling encourages unhealthy lifestyles,” which claimed that overweight bodies are more susceptible to disease and other health risks, and therefore shouldn’t be put in the media spotlight. This article is fat-shaming at its most dangerous and disturbing, and it’s crucial to speak out about these types of discrimination. The crux of writer Anthony Bianco’s argument relies upon the stereotype that all fat bodies are inherently unhealthy. Not only is this not true, but it leads to the oppression of fat people and the impossible notion that there is one uniform…

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