fattism

MUMS, we need to talk about fattism - if we can't own up to the fact we are feeding our kids into an early grave it's game over.

This latest stunt has proven fattism is alive and well and the internet is a cruel beast when it comes to body image.

Fattism is just as much an issue as ageism on Strictly.

Despite yet another crass example of fattism (Roberts in a flashback prosthetic chubby suit) that says you have to be thin and glamorous to be worth loving, this is sweet candyfloss fun with some amusing digs at demanding movie brats and Hollywood hype.

High priestess of fattism Vanessa Feltz, tells us losing weight isn't rocket science and once you've got the bit between your teeth 'it's actually unbelievably simple'.

They know that despite the politically correct movement against ''fattism'', skinny girls are the most likely to go out with boys.

Unions claimed the firm were guilty of "blatant fattism" and wanted to attract only slim, handsome people into the company.

The new set of -isms (ageism, fattism, heightism) signal the taboos of new ideologies in social thinking, just as green can operate as noun or adjective, as well as an effective pre-modifier in a range of new (and ecologically sound) constructions from green politics to green consciousness or the dark green of those strongly committed to greenism.