What is fat-shaming? Humiliating, discriminating, and judging a person based on her/his body weight. Weightism is a prejudice in our culture. “The shaming may be performed under the guise of helping the person who is overweight/obese to realize they need to lose weight or they will die, become ill, and/or never succeed in life or relationships,” according to a 2015 article in Psychology Today. www.psychologytoday.com/. “Medical fat shaming” can come in the form of disrespectful lecturing, embarrassing […]
