Is being fatphobic real?

Yes, but not in the way it is often meant. The *real* term for "fatphobia" is cacomorphobia. The way "fatphobia" is most often being used is just overweight people being upset that not everyone is into that body type.

Yes, people casually insulting someone is wrong. Don't be a dick; even if you don't like someone's appearance. But conversely don't call someone a dick for not being attracted to you.

Edit: I also don't like that my generation seems to be using the word "phobia" for "thing a person doesn't like". It undermines genuine phobias.

Hating fat people is certainly a thing but "phobia" implies fear. So I'm gonna say maybe there is like 3 people in the entire world with "fat phobia"

No, absolutley not. I'm a fat cunt, and no one is prejudice against fat people for anything but legitimate reasons. It's unattractive and it's very unhealthy. Honestly, this whole body positivity movement has been a net negative for society as a whole.

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Of course it is. It's extremely common to hate on people for their weight.

Yes. I have heard lots of people saying things like "Ugh, I can't stand fat people'. Also, I'm heavier than a lot of people in the country I'm in, and when I lose weight I notice that I am respected more.

In the UK things are different. A lot more people are my size, and people care a lot less how you look. When I'm over there the freedom to dress as sloppily as I want is quite refreshing. Here though, it's almost like it's a person's duty to look 'put together', in a basic sense.

fatphobia does not exist its only ever used by that bullshit acceptance group to twist and suit the narrative.

No. Most people who claims to be a victim of "fatphobia" have a persecution complex. Weight is something you can change, if being fat was that bad you could just do something about it.

Yes. While I do agree that being fat is unhealthy, and that this whole fat acceptance movement nowadays can be bad for society, I don't think most of the critics really hate it for that reason. Like people are unhealthy in lots of other ways (drinking, smoking, prescription drugs, social media addicts, etc.), but they don't care about all that.

They care about this though just because they find fat people unattractive, and it's human nature unfortunately to just not like unattractive people. For most of us, that dislike of unattractive people has been mostly papered over by our civilised upbringing, and the (true) conclusions we come to that unattractive people can't help how they look and that looks shouldn't matter anyway. But sometimes that irrational hatred can come to the surface again, like when we're stressed or pissed off. Usually, it will only arise though when we have a legitimate reason to blame it on, because it would damage us psychologically to realise that we're actually just terrible people deep down. Like in this case, these people are only fatphobic because they're apparently just looking out for the health of society (which is clearly just transparent bullshit).

Yes, and it's completely rational since obesity is unhealthy.

I'd vote Yeah, unless I'm misunderstanding the term. The way I interpret it is that you immediately dislike someone just from knowing they're fat (or you're actually afraid of fatness for whatever reason, but I'm focusing on the social aspect).

This goes past merely being concerned for someone because they're overweight or not wanting to date them because you don't think they're attractive. You seriously hate them, or at least have some hostility.

And yeah, I think that's a real thing. The only way someone being overweight affects you is by sight, or indirectly through their medical bills, but some people take it a little bit too far, as if Mr. 300-Pounder is the source of all their troubles and at least half their taxes.

The phrase just gets pushback because of all the dudes on social media claiming "fatphobia" because they couldn't get a triple-wide plane seat or something. Like any other -phobia or -ism, people with jimmied britches and short fuses doesn't mean the actual thing doesn't exist.

Here's some perspective. I wouldn't fuck a midget but I'm not afraid of one either.

If you are a genuinely scared of a human being towards overweight people simply because of their size, then yes, you are fatphobic. But I assume you mean hating fat people.

Yes there's real people out there who hate fat people. Treat people the way you wanted to be treated.