size discrimination
Weight-based unfair treatment
Size discrimination is unfair treatment of people based on their body size, particularly targeting those who are overweight or obese.
It manifests in employment, healthcare, education, and social settings: She filed a complaint alleging size discrimination after being passed over for promotion.
The term sometimes extends to discrimination against very thin or short people, though weight-based bias dominates the discourse.
- sizeismDiscrimination by physique
- fatphobiaBias against larger bodies
- weightismDiscrimination by body size
- body shamingCriticizing physical appearance cruelly
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
prejudice · diet culture · body · thin · fat · overweight · height · short · tall · lookism · hiring · job interview · workplace · dress code · appearance · stigma · bullying · clothing
size discriminationnon-discrimination
Equal treatment regardless of difference
fat acceptance · equal treatment · body liberation · impartiality · equal opportunity
size discriminationbody positivity
Acceptance of all figures
body neutrality · body acceptance · fat acceptance · body liberation · self-acceptance
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