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Fat Discrimination

14 Women Who Have Faced Fat Prejudice

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 05.21.2013 | Women
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"Beauty isn't between a size zero and a size eight. It is not a number at all. It is not physical," Ellen DeGeneres said recently in response to Aberc...

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Skinny-People Only Speed Dating Is Back

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2013 | Women
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Speed-dating events for skinny people exist -- and journalist Rachel Rabbit White attended one undercover. In April, White went to one of On Speed ...

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In Case You Needed Proof That Weight Stigma Existed

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.16.2013 | Women
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When you're a woman -- regardless of how your body looks -- you grow up expecting to be judged (some of the time) based on appearance. However, there ...

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Fat Makes Men Look Powerful, Claims A Man

Nina Bahadur | Posted 05.04.2013 | Women
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The message: having a body is never easy, never okay. Being attractive is, at least until childbirth, the female body's main job. As RuPaul put it, 'Girl, you better work.'

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Christina Wilkie

Too Fat To Work? Advocates Debate Whether Obesity Is Disability

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.04.2012 | Business
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"I've been a fat person all my life," said Peggy Howell, 65, of Las Vegas, Nevada. "I went from being a chubby kid to a fat teenager to a fat adult." ...

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Student Says Bar Said She Was Too Fat

Posted 04.30.2012 | College
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A University of Iowa student says that a local bar wouldn't let her dance on a platform because she was "not pretty enough" and "obviously pregnant," ...

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Study Concludes 'Fat-ism' Is More Widespread Than Racism

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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It's illegal to discriminate against someone because of race or gender, but our culture condones a bias against people who are overweight. There are ...

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