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small fat (plural small fats)
- (informal) A slightly to moderately overweight person, generally reckoned as a 16-18 in US women's sizes.
- 2017, Victoria Welsby, "Fat Is Fabulous", fabUplus Magazine, Fall 2017, page 23:
- Interestingly, in a recent study size 16 – 18 was the most common dress size for American women, proving that small fats are totally “average”.
- 2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127:
- As a super fat when I’ve pointed this out, by like, saying a size 16 model in an ad is no cause for my personal celebration, or that a new clothing line up to a 3X does nothing for me, etc, I’ve been shouted down for not being excited for the things small fats are now getting. I’m tired.
- 2019, anonymous, quoted in Judith C. Bridges, "splaininggender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 205:
- I mean tbh I find it frustrating when smallfats center themselves over fats who experience inarguably worse treatment
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:small fat.
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