Word: weightism
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...Michael Flatley-esque ’do. Guess that demographic in the College is even slimmer than the closeted opportunist i-banking hopeful… Not slim enough: a slew of Harvard mamas turned away from Project East, after being explicitly told they were 2 fat 2 B hott. Weightism: the new racism for minorities… Unnaturally hairy ears didn’t stop one Harvard admin from buying a 2-for-1 ticket to bonetown for him and his proctor lady-friend. Not invited? His wife. She tried to go, but they’re all booked up?...
Steiner-Adair identified "weightism" as a form of prejudice "which gives a girl the message that being thinner is more important than anything else about...
...more to avoid giving offense, except to good usage, the < dictionary offers comfort to very short people (though not 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...
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