Fat-calling: ascriptions of fatness that subordinate.
Calling someone fat is not only cruel and unkind—it also subordinates them. While the sharpest and most immediate harms of fatphobic bullying are emotional and psychological, these vary according to the resilience of the target. What one person can laugh off, another feels deeply, perhaps for years....
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 2; pp. 655 - 678 |
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Feb2025
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