Word: fattism
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Hicks Ignorant of 'Fattism...
...calorie-conscious salad. Worse, Hicks doesn't even recognize the weightist prejudice he's expressing: "Incapacitated? Well, she can't really walk so well, but I don't really see that mild disability keeping her out of the job market. Discriminated against? No, nothing there, either." Fattism does keep people out of the job market. And it can make people miserable. Sadly enough, some people still think it's okay to ridicule fat people...
...pound figure and showed her the door. "It was complete discrimination against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress. The security guard who first spotted Kadden's garb thought that her stretched-to-the-breaking-point leggings were actually panty hose, a Harrods spokesman said. Nor does the Knightsbridge store...
Psychologist and Author Rita Freedman of Scarsdale, N.Y., sees the emergence of what she calls fattism, an inclination to associate thinness with prettiness and goodness, and obesity with lassitude and lack of discipline. The way to salvation is, in Barsky's ironic words, a "tanned, trim, taut, toned body" that will be an objet d'art, a masterpiece to be "treasured, meticulously inspected and painstakingly maintained in peak condition." Unfortunately for most Americans, who tend to be groaners and sweaters, that remains an unattainable ideal...
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