From 6f888d09651e35c7f0b7e13d8d55f20c247be94a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oscar Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:53:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat(definitions): port fatphobia update --- 11ty/definitions/fatphobia.md | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/11ty/definitions/fatphobia.md b/11ty/definitions/fatphobia.md index f3eb9b00..8c09c32e 100644 --- a/11ty/definitions/fatphobia.md +++ b/11ty/definitions/fatphobia.md @@ -7,8 +7,20 @@ skip_in_table_of_content: true reading: - text: Sizeism and Fatphobia href: https://www.srhweek.ca/providers/people-and-communities/sizeism-and-fatphobia/ - - text: 'Fatphobia: A Guide for the Disbeliever' - href: https://www.srhweek.ca/providers/people-and-communities/sizeism-and-fatphobia/ + - text: 'Anti-Oppression: Anti-Fatmisia' + href: https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-fatmisia --- the fear, hatred, and stigmitasation of fat people. + +#### Issues + +Fatphobia is the racialised, classist, and ableist tool of oppression that codifies a “ideal” body type that centres a white, Western aesthetic, demands time and resources that people may not have, and attempts to correlate thinness and heathliness—perpetuating white supremacist violence against people of colour, perpetuates classist oppression of people living with limited resources, and the ableist idea of healthiness as an indicator of human value. + +#### Impact + +A history of being ignored and shamed prevents many fat people from visiting medical professionals even if they have the financial and physical means to do so. Medical professionals hold fatphobic biases and often prescribe weight loss as a default instead of listening to their fat patients' concerns. + +Employers will pay fat employees less than their thin colleagues and offer them no protection from weight stigma in the workplace, as their fatphobic biases lead to their perception of fat employees as lazy, less intelligent, and unmotivated. + +Law enforcement officers are less likely to believe fat people reporting sexual assaults, as their fatphobic biases lead them to think of fat people as unattractive, not sexually active, or undesirable.