Views
According to Monica Persson, over 56 percent of obese or overweight women have answered that they have been treated disrespectfully by their physicians, and 46 percent view their physicians as uncomfortable with the women's unhealthy weight.
Fat feminists argue that the likelihood of women to experience discrimination and medical complications increases proportionally with body size; women who are naturally larger than the norm would be forced into a cycle of spending more money on health care just to compensate for being overweight.
Also argued is that size discrimination is associated with, and is similar to racism, sexism, and ageism. This view has been rejected by many other minority groups because popular opinion assumes that weight, though mildly affected by genetics, is mostly in the control of the individual through diet and exercise, while race, gender, etc. are uncontrollable. Biologically, females have a higher body fat percentage than men, leading to the view that size discrimination affects women more so than men. Size discrimination might be associated with racism, as some suggest that size is affected by race. The ageist argument stems from the view that women gain weight naturally with age, especially after childbirth because the mother is no longer as active during or after childbirth but continues to eat as she had before.
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