Prejudice or discrimination based on a person's weight and appearance.
there have also been complaints about gender discrimination and body fascism in elite sport
Example sentencesExamples
- The founders of the blog have said that "women's magazines nowadays constitute a minefield of body fascism".
- Did you worry that losing weight was caving into body fascism or some other idea about beauty and what's attractive?
- Her success was seen as a heart-warming populist victory against the body fascism visible in hip hop videos.
- He is not out to truly challenge the body fascism of ballet institutions.
- She punctuated her career with asides about the 'body fascism' of television bosses.
- The canonization of the hero-athlete by sculptors also amounts to a sort of 'body fascism'.
- The media are rightly criticised for 'body fascism', and placing too much attention on size 10 supermodels.
- My piece was an attack on body fascism and a plea for tolerance of an infinite variety of body types.
- She will not escape the body fascism that pervades the modern media.