anti-fat

American  

[an-tahy-fat, an-tee-] / ˌæn taɪˈfæt, ˌæn ti- /

Or antifat

adjective

1. Also fatphobic opposed, hostile, or averse to fatness and fat people.

2. preventing or reducing the formation or effects of fat.

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Etymology

Origin of anti-fat

First recorded in 1900–05, and in 1995–2000 anti-fat for def. 1; anti- ( def. ) + fat ( def. )

Example Sentences

Academics say that anti-fat bias can have significant implications, from how people are perceived in job interviews to how doctors interact with them.

From BBC

Amid the 1980s and early 1990s, consumers refrained from eating bacon or other processed pork products due to anti-fat and anti-nitrate scares.

From Salon

How did you approach illustrating the ways in which anti-fat bias and other intersecting systems of oppression especially harm Black people, Indigenous people, people of color and disabled people?

From Seattle Times

Listeners of “Maintenance Phase” will know that Gordon, who has also been a community organizer and activist around LGBTQ+ rights and anti-fat bias, brings skillful analysis, acute understanding and a sense of humor to her work.

From Seattle Times

Everybody who either is a woman or even is raised with the expectation that they will be a woman, gets these very intense anti-fat messages and is instilled with a fear of being fat, which has lots of cultural tendrils.

From Slate