Image Recognition
Rodgers described weight-shaming as simply as it sounds—“making a person feel ashamed of their weight.”But the causes and mechanisms of this, or any, weight-based stigma are anything but simplistic. Meanwhile, weight-based stigma has been found to have consequences for a person’s career, physical and mental health, and more. Another way to combat weight-based stigma is to change social norms. “A lot of weight stigma occurs not at the individual level but societal level,” Rodgers notes. “It has been said that weight-based stigma is the last socially acceptable form of stigmatization,” Rodgers says.