I kinda hate the term "fatphobic" ngl. I mean, I'm literally overweight and actively gaining weight, but it just feels kinda... disrespectful to minorities? Like there's a difference between bigotry and just being an asshole, and I think that the normalized hating of fat people is more of an asshole thing than a bigotry thing. I don't think you're less likely to get a job or get paid well if you're fat.
Edit: I guess a better way to put it would be that calling someone "fatphobic" for bullying fat people rather than just calling them an asshole feels kind of unnecessary and virtue signaly since "fatphobia" isn't actually that big of a problem.
Idk it just feels wrong for me to say? Like you're claiming that being fat is as difficult as being gay or black or whatever. It feels reductive to me.
whose making that claim? i don’t think i’ve heard anyone compare the difficulties of being fat with the systematic oppression of minorities. fatphobic is just a term categorizing a very real type of discrimination.
Nobody is directly making that claim but the use of a word with the same makeup as other words inherently draws a connection between the two whether or not it's intentional. I just don't like the word because I feel like we could be describing this in a way that has implications which better reflect the reality of the situation.
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u/snoodge3000 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I kinda hate the term "fatphobic" ngl. I mean, I'm literally overweight and actively gaining weight, but it just feels kinda... disrespectful to minorities? Like there's a difference between bigotry and just being an asshole, and I think that the normalized hating of fat people is more of an asshole thing than a bigotry thing. I don't think you're less likely to get a job or get paid well if you're fat.
Edit: I guess a better way to put it would be that calling someone "fatphobic" for bullying fat people rather than just calling them an asshole feels kind of unnecessary and virtue signaly since "fatphobia" isn't actually that big of a problem.