In the service of the crusade to snuff out fatphobic discrimination in all its insidious forms, #bodypositivity activists have diligently compiled a list of verboten “fat microaggressions” committed on a routine basis against the marginalized human-whale hybrid community.
“Weight stigma research consistently finds that healthcare professionals (including physicians, nurses, and dietitians) hold biased attitudes and beliefs about obese patients,” begins the diatribe.
Whereas the normie might consider it a blessing that healthcare professionals not lie to their patients for the sake of enabling their poor behavior but rather tell them hard truths for their own good, Psychology Today is of the view that healthcare professionals’ microaggressions, which include not supplying gigantic seats in waiting rooms, do more harm than good.
Via Psychology Today (emphasis added):
Although few mental health providers are likely to endorse holding anti-fat attitudes and discriminatory weight-based behavior, they may communicate negative messages to patients indirectly through microaggressive behavior. Microaggressions are subtle, often unintentional expressions of negativity toward individuals due to their membership in a marginalized group*…
Common microaggressions included therapists who overly focused on their clients' weight, therapists who appeared to be less interested in clients because of their weight, and dissatisfaction with waiting room seating options.
*Obeses, by definition, are anything but “marginal”; unless you’re blind, they’re impossible to put to the side.
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Anyway, there you have it: not fitting in human-sized seats in the waiting room is officially a “microaggression.”
But there’s way more where that came from.
As I have diligently chronicled in previous articles here at PJ Media, fat propagandists frequently target airlines and clothing retailers as some of the most ruthless purveyors of microaggression against the fats.
Via National Council on Aging (emphasis added):
In many doctor’s offices, examination tables and gowns do not accommodate people of larger size. This is also true on many commercial airplanes, where seats will not fit an individual who carries significant excess weight. In this case, the passenger is often required to purchase two seats to sit comfortably during their flight.
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Rounding out our rundown of fat microaggressions, we have any helpful suggestions regarding dietary habits.
As a fat ally, under no circumstances are you to offer evidenced-based nutritional insight to the these people, as explained via “Stop asking me if I’ve tried keto: Why weight stigma is more than just being mean to fat people,” published in The Conversation (emphasis added):
Recurrent and commonplace discriminatory acts that demean members of stigmatized groups are called microaggressions…
With combined input from reports of lived experiences, expert testimony and large studies with diverse samples, we identified four main types of fat microaggressions…
The built environment can also be a source of direct microaggressions, such as at sporting events, theatres or restaurants where the seats are not wide or sturdy enough…
One type of direct microaggression that emerged as its own category in our analysis was clothing exclusion. Stores typically have far fewer options in larger sizes…
The other specific type of direct microaggression that was prominent in the lived experience of fat people is something we call “benevolent weightism.” These are the often (although not always) well-meaning suggestions of diets.
