Sizeism

Sizeism or size discrimination is prejudice directed at people based on their size.

Characteristics

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 their life, people may earn a tendency to be especially tall, slender, short, or plump, and numerous societies have internalized attitudes approximately size. Another manifestation of body variance is muscle mass and skeletal size, often with associations of measure 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 their size is superior to that of other people and treat people of other sizes negatively. Examples of sizeist discrimination might add a adult 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 particular phobias such(a) as cacomorphobia the fear of fat people, or a fear of tall or short people.

Sizeism is aligned with the social construction of the ideal or "normal" body category 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, and doorways. positioning assumptions are drawn about the size and breed of the users height, weight, proportionate length of arms and legs, width of hips and shoulders.

Body-shaming, more specifically weight-shaming of men and women, is a widely required characteristic of sizeism, submitted in the form of prejudice and discrimination can include both skinny shaming and fat shaming.