Sizeism, frankly, is a bullshit notion with a serious toxic impact.
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Then, tell us about your experiences with sizeism in the comments.
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Last month, Bebe Rexha put sizeism in the fashion industry on blast.
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Earlier this year, Lovato, 26, applauded singer Bebe Rexha for opening up about sizeism and red carpet dressing.
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Demi Lovato took to the comments section to praise Rexha for calling out sizeism in the fashion industry.
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Her comments set off a debate about whether the refusal had been based on racism, or sizeism, or ageism.
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Howard is known for working without a stylist and has spoken out against sizeism in Hollywood when it comes to red carpet dressing.
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Jones, a noted activist for the fat positive movement, photographed the women, also talking to passersby about body positivity, fat visibility and sizeism.
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On this episode of Go Off, Sis, 4 Black women discuss their experiences with sizeism and how they came to embrace their bodies.
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Howard, 35, is known for working without a stylist and has spoken out against sizeism in Hollywood when it comes to red carpet dressing.
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However, a recent study proved that sizeism whether it comes from anonymous trolls, loved ones, or even medical professionals could take a toll on our health.
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During a symposium called "Weapons of Mass Distraction — Confronting Sizeism," Joan Chrisler, PhD, a professor of psychology at Connecticut College, spoke to the effects of fat-shaming from doctors.
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Still, she's not blind to the inherent sizeism that exists in the industry when it comes to who gets to wear what — and how it hasn't really changed at all.
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In Europe, sizeism is still a major issue; just last month, luxury conglomerates LVMH and Kering joined forces on a commitment to ban female models below size 34 (US size 2) on the runway.
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Instead, the "I'm A Mess" singer had a hard time finding a dress to wear, thanks to the fashion industry's well-documented issue with sizeism (despite 67% of women being a size 12 or larger).
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In a presentation entitled "Weapons of Mass Distraction — Confronting Sizeism," the pair urged psychologists and psychiatrists to check their biases against overweight people, warning that such attitudes might lead to disastrous outcomes for their clients.
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Except, the "I'm A Mess" singer is having a hard time finding a dress to wear, thanks to the fashion industry's well-documented issue with sizeism (despite 67% of women being a size 12 or larger).
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Take, for example, how the relationship between Hollywood and high fashion got scrutinized, as various celebrities, stylists, and designers spoke out about the sizeism that can decide who gets to wear what on the red carpet.
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These small comforts probably won't do a lot to mitigate the stress felt by people regularly victimized by racial profiling, sizeism, and other types of discrimination that still run rampant on planes, in airports, and during TSA screenings.
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Last month, "I'm A Mess" singer Bebe Rexha, admitted she had a hard time finding a dress to wear to the Grammys, thanks to the fashion industry's well-documented issue with sizeism (despite 67% of women being a size 12 or larger).
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I feel like not only in the prison industry but all of these other very important topics like ICE, LGBT, sizeism, to whatever it is...we've been able to hit on all of it and been able to use our voices as activists.
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It wasn't until recently, after writing an article breaking down the sneaky sizeism in a letter a thin man wrote to his "curvy" wife, that I finally understood why that night (and several other comments Beth made over our five months together) felt so wrong.
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Sizeism or size discrimination is the idea that people are prejudged by their size.
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This type of discrimination can take a number of forms, ranging from refusing to hire someone because they are considered to be too short or too tall, to treating overweight and underweight individuals with disdain. There aren't currently any specific anti-discrimination laws that have been put in place to prohibit sizeism, despite the issue being extremely prevalent. Sizeist stereotypes (such as "overweight people are lazy" or "tall people can play basketball") are often ingrained in modern society. In the US, the list of anti-discrimination acts does not specifically include sizeism as an offense.
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Examples of sizeist discrimination might include a person being fired from a job for being overweight or exceptionally short though their work was unaffected. Sizeism often takes the form of a number of stereotypes about people of particular heights and weights. Sizeist attitudes can also take the form of expressions of physical disgust when confronted with people of differing sizes and can even manifest into specific phobias such as cacomorphobia (the fear of fat people), or a fear of tall or short people. Sizeism, being a newly recognized discriminatory stance, is usually observed by those who are its targets.
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Women's Voices, Feminist Visions : Classic and Contemporary Readings. New York, NY :McGraw-Hill, 2015. Print. Body-shaming, more specifically weight-shaming of men and women, is a widely known characteristic of sizeism, shown in the form of prejudice and discrimination can include both skinny shaming and fat shaming.
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Cynthia McQuillin (July 25, 1953 - January 14, 2006) was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area. Her songs touched the usual filk topics of science fiction, fantasy, and cats, but also feminism, love, Paganism, and Sizeism. Her life partner and frequent musical collaborator was the filk singer James Robinson, who was then known as Dr. Jane Robinson.
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"You Can't Stop The Beat" is the finale number in the 2002 musical Hairspray. It is sung by Tracy, Link, Penny, Seaweed, Edna, Motor Mouth, Velma, and Amber with Corny and Wilbur as backing singers. Although the lyrics touch on sizeism and racism, the song also references broader themes of change and progression. The song pays tribute to the Phil Spector-produced 1966 Ike & Tina Turner hit "River Deep – Mountain High".
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Upon arrival, Joey was shown as a shy and eager newbie nurse. He was socially awkward but determined at work. However, by the time Joey is revealed as the killer, his true colours have surfaced and he is shown to be extremely judgemental, showing homophobia, sizeism, racism and elitism. When he caught on that Joey was going to turn out to be the killer, Barker purposely made his character more humorous and goofy, so as to make it as least obvious as possible.
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Sizeism is aligned with the social construction of the ideal or "normal" body shape and size and how that shapes our environment. In the U.S. we can observe many public facilities shaped by this "normative" body including; telephone booths, drinking fountains, bleachers, bathroom outlets (sinks, toilets, stalls), chairs, tables, turnstiles, elevators, staircases, vending machines, doorways...to name a few. Design assumptions are drawn about the size and shape of the users (height, weight, proportionate length of arms and legs, width of hips and shoulders).Susan M. Shaw, Janet Lee, Oregon State University.
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The Khyber’s mandate is to present contemporary visual art, which exists in a wide variety of disciplines. We challenge traditional gallery conventions, encourage public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through responsive and relevant programming. The Khyber works to prioritize, centre and promote the presentation of work by emerging local, national and/or international artists. Additionally, we aim to recognize and disrupt systemic forms of oppression, which include but are not limited to: racism, white supremacy, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism/transmisogyny, tokenism, ableism, ageism, sizeism, sexualized and all acts of violence and harassment.
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Based on data analysis done on a survey of over 3,000 Americans, weight and height discrimination, a form of sizeism, was ranked just behind gender, age, and race as a highly experienced factor of discrimination. Among female respondents, weight and height discrimination exceeds race-based discrimination as the third most prevalent form of experienced discrimination. This discrimination was experienced in multiple settings, including from employers, interactions within the health- care field, in educational atmospheres, as well as within personal and familial relationships. Greater prevalence was found to exist within those respondents who were self-reported as female, with 10% of female respondents reporting having experienced weight and height discrimination, compared to 5% of male respondents .
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Sizeism can be based on height, weight or both, and so is often related to height and weight-based discrimination but is not synonymous with either. Depending on where in the world one is and how one lives his/her life, people may have a tendency to be especially tall, slender, short, or plump, and many societies have internalized attitudes about size. Another manifestation of body variance is muscle mass and skeletal size, often with associations of degree of compliance to one's born sex, but do not necessarily affect gender to deviate from sex. As a general rule, sizeist attitudes imply that someone believes that his or her size is superior to that of other people and treat people of other sizes negatively.
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King Farouk I Tomb in Refaii mosque, Cairo, Egypt During Anwar El-Sadat's presidency, the remains of King Farouk were moved to Al-Rifa'i Mosque, where Muhammad Ali Pasha, the founder of the Egyptian dynasty, and the rest of his descendants are buried. Stadiem maintained that Farouk's bad reputation was because of sizeism, charging that Farouk was condemned for his lifestyle because he was fat and bald. Stadiem wrote that John F. Kennedy, who likewise came from a privileged, upper class background was just as sexually aggressive as Farouk, but because Kennedy was not "bald and obese", he attracted nowhere near the same level of abuse as did Farouk. Stadiem argued that Farouk was an intelligent leader whose efforts to lever the British out of Egypt might have worked with enough time, and he was unfairly mocked for his baldness, his weight, and his lifestyle.
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This movement is about fostering "global, radical, unapologetic self love which translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more just, equitable and compassionate world". It strives to reduce violence against people who have been marginalized and had violence perpetuated against them, including > "...racist violence including lynching, slavery, holocausts, and internment > camps...LGBTQIA people being assaulted, murdered and driven to suicide > regularly...rape and sexual assault...the bombing of abortion clinics and > the murder of physicians supporting women’s rights to autonomy over their > own bodies...involuntary sterilization of people with > disabilities...debilitating shame that people around the world live with as > a result of the psychological attacks our social and media machines wage > against us, ending in bulimia and anorexia, addiction, stigma, racism, > homophobia, ableism, sizeism, ageism, transphobia, mass self-hatred, and > senseless violence as a result of body hatred." The movement has also come out with the RUHCUS Project (Radically Unapologetic Healing Challenge 4 Us), an exercise that takes place over 30 days aimed at helping people in their goal of body empowerment. The medium that their movement uses to get their message out is Facebook, Tumblr, and their website .
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