fatosphere

English

Etymology

fat + -o- + -sphere; compare biosphere, blogosphere, etc.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fatosphere (plural not attested)

1. The world or sphere of fat people.
   • 2012, Lonie McMichael, Ph.D., Talking Fat: Health vs. Persuasion in the War on Our Bodies, unnumbered page:

     For larger individuals—what the Fatosphere jokingly refers to as “deathfat” as a play on the term “morbidly obese”— leaving their homes opens them to criticism and ridicule.

   • 2010, Robert James Smith, Carrol Sue Perrino, Staying Beautiful is a BITCH!:

     While the above obese woman is caught up in her own fatosphere there's her counterpart, the impossibly tall, thin woman with legs and thighs from here to heaven who is caught up in her own thinosphere […]

   • 2012, Deborah Lupton, Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body, page 75:

     The 'fatosphere' of fat activists now comprises many groups, several books and an untold number of internet blogs […]