On Fat-Shaming

By Jason B. Jones. I guess people noticed this weekend when an evolutionary psychology professor decided that fat-shaming grad students was an excellent use of his Twitter account. (And by noticed, I mean went deservedly ballistic online. Jezebel helped.) But yesterday Collin Gifford Brooke wrote a really terrific piece on, in effect, internalized fat-shaming and all the different humiliations and stressors that the obese face on an hourly basis. Read more...