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- Anti-fat bias higher in women, young people
- 26% of overweight people report discrimination at work
- 84% of very obese people report discrimination at work
- 17% of very obese people report being fired or forced to resign strictly due to their weight
- Overweight people: 1%-6% lower salaries than thin people
- Very obese women: 24% lower salaries than thin people
- 24% of nurses say they are repulsed by obese people
- Over 31% of nurses don't want to take care of obese people
- Anti-sizeism movements: Fat Acceptance Movement, Fat Liberation Movement
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Sizeism is discrimination against obese people. Several organizations have sprung up to fight sizeism.
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Anti-Sizeism Movements
- Late 1960s: Movement begins
- 1967: "Fat-in" staged in New York's Central Park
- National organization: National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
- Activists prefer "fat" to "overweight" or "obese"
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Central Figures
- NAAFA
- Official Site: National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
- John Stone Fitness: NAAFA Public Forum
- NAAFA
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hoping m. obama's anti-obesity campaign doesn't = sizeism gaining acceptance & increased neg. body image issues. but it probably will. #HAES
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People need to leave Gabby Sidibe alone. It is not a crime to be fat, black AND happy in your own skin. http://bit.ly/3ww8vi #sizeism
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@BBC_HaveYourSay I think we need to re-define the parameters of beauty and move away from sizeism, ageism, wrinkleism (that's a Jan-ism)
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Uh, bashing thin girls for their weight sizeism too.
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More on Whole Foods sizeism: Employees w/ a BMI btw 28-29.9=22% discount; 26-28.9=25% discount; 24-25.9=27% discount; below 24=30% discount
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