{"id":4273,"date":"2008-04-03T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T08:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/03\/women-face-anti-fat-bias-at-lighter-weights-than-men\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T00:47:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T08:07:22","slug":"women-face-anti-fat-bias-at-lighter-weights-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Women Face Anti-Fat Bias At Lighter Weights Than Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports<\/a> that social scientists have once more demonstrated the obvious: ((Which is a very useful think for social scientists to do, in my opinion.))<\/p>\n

Fat Bias Worse For Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on body mass index, which is a measure of body fat based on height and weight, a normal weight is in the range of 18.5 to 24.9. The study found that women begin to experience noticeable weight bias \u2014 such as problems at work or difficulty in personal relationships \u2014 when they reach a body mass index, or B.M.I., of 27. For a 5-foot-5-inch woman, that means discrimination starts once she reaches a weight of 162 pounds \u2014 or about 13 pounds more than her highest healthy weight, based on B.M.I. charts.<\/p>\n

But the researchers found that men can bulk up far more without experiencing discrimination. Weight bias against men becomes noticeable when a man reaches a B.M.I. of 35 or higher. A 5-foot-9-inch man has a B.M.I. of 35 if he weighs 237 pounds \u2014 or 68 pounds above his highest healthy weight.<\/p>\n

The study also revealed that women are twice as likely as men to report weight discrimination and that weight-related workplace bias and interpersonal mistreatment due to obesity are common. The researchers found that weight discrimination is more prevalent than discrimination based on sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity, physical disability and religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, despite its high prevalence, it continues to remain socially acceptable,\u201d said co-author Tatiana Andreyava.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Despite its high prevalence, it continues to remain socially acceptable”? Uh-huh. Doesn’t it seem more likely that because<\/em> of its social acceptability, it remains highly prevalent?<\/p>\n

Especially since what they’re really measuring is perceived <\/em>discrimination and bias. All those other forms of discrimination are less socially acceptable to state openly<\/em> than weight bias; they are therefore more likely to be kept secret, and less likely to be noticed as discrimination. So this study doesn’t necessarily show that discrimination based on “sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity, physical disability and religious beliefs” necessarily happens any less often than weight-related discrimination; it may be that these other discriminations happen just as frequently, but are more frequently kept secret, and so less likely to be perceived as discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports that social scientists have once more demonstrated the obvious: ((Which is a very useful think for social scientists to do, in my opinion.)) Fat Bias Worse For Women Based on body mass index, which is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}