Word: lookism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1991-1991
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THIS MOVEMENT has promoted a litany of fragmenting "isms"-from bilingualism to lookism. In most cases these campaigns for particular rights are expressions of genuine suffering. These are not bogus concerns. But the cumulative effect has been to divide Americans into smaller and smaller interest groups...
...very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
| 1 |