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Fatism - (n) - 1. Discrimination or prejudice based on a person’s weight.
Fatist (n & adj) - 1. A a person with a prejudiced belief that one persons weight is superior to others. 2. based on intolerance to a person’s weight.

When I hear stories of overweight people being judged on the weight they look, this really makes me mad. And it’s not just because I am overweight myself.

There has been recent studies that show that employers are less likely to hire an overweight person due to them believing that overweight people are lazy and will not do the job satisfactorily. This is a whole load of garbage! Just because a person is overweight does not mean they are lazy. We have a friend who is overweight. He works shift work, working sometimes 12 day rosters. He also runs his own security business, doing security work for parties and functions. And he is also a volunteer for the State Emergency Service.

It makes me sad that we even need a word like “fatism” in a world that is already screwed up because of discrimination against race, religion, etc. We should all be referred to as human beings and nothing else.


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  1. jen on November 21, 2007 9:20 am

    I agree
    I firmly believe people should look inside a person to judge whether they are worthy or not
    to me its much more important that a person is loyal caring honest responsible etc rather than what they look like

  2. ~Tina on November 21, 2007 1:55 pm

    I totally agree with you, Jen!

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