Citations:obesophobia
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English citations of obesophobia
- 1997, Charles E. Rosenberg, Framing disease: studies in cultural history, →ISBN, pages 137–138:
- Much has been written about the obesophobia of contemporary society, the cult of diet and exercise, and the intensity of the Western cultural imperative to be thin.
- 2000 November 28, myared, “Joan Brumberg deflects media blame for anorexia”, in alt.support.eating-disord[1] (Usenet):
- All young women have been exposed to obesophobia (a desire to be skinny), but we don't all develop anorexia. So there clearly are some intervening behaviors that have to do with the psychology of family, psychosexual issues and possibly some biology.
- 2002 October 29, JoseSoplar, “TOTALLY HUNG UP ON YEAR 2002”, in alt.politics.bush[2] (Usenet):
- The airline's gate agents were told to make on-the-spot decisions about who's too fat to fit into a single seat, and to charge them for two. ¶ Just hearing this startling news caused my obesophobia (the fear of getting fat) - in remission since puberty - to return full blast.