deathfat

alternative death fat

1. not comparablesarcasticslangMorbidly obese.

   it's made of people you probably see everyday^([sic]) and don't even think are fat, let alone deathfat.

   2009 October 8, firefey [username], “Re: Obama with Goths”, in alt.gothic (Usenet)

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   To put it more succinctly, I am death fat. I am superduper really-for-real mad fat. I am the kind of fat where doctors are friendly until they get me on a scale, and then after that they get very quiet.

   2012, Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body, unnumbered page

   Death fat individuals may find that smaller fat people are taking up more space in fa(t)shion and are more commonly seen in these blogs.

   2014, Kala Heekin, "Fat Babes In Crop Tops: Representations Of Gender In Fa(t)shion", Society & Culture Undergraduate Research Forum, Volume 6, Spring 2014, page 148

plural deathfats · alternative death fat

1. sarcasticslangA morbidly obese person.

   The protagonist is aligned to the abject in this room as she wears her dress of rot but she is also aligned to the "death fats" and she exists at a great distance from the slender angels above.

   2016, Laura Ellen Joyce, “Flesh Home: The Uncanny Female Architecture of Blake Butler's EVER”, in Helen Hester, Caroline Walters, editors, Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism, unnumbered page

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   Some US fat activists distinguish between ‘inbetweenies,’ who are relatively ‘small’ fat people who enjoy privileges such as ‘passing’ as thin or ‘on their way to being’ thin, and ‘death fats,’ who suffer the worst of the sanctions society places on fat people (McMichael, 2010).

   2013, Maya Maor, "More: Fat Women in Israel-Genres and Issues in Identity Construction and Resistance to Social Oppression", thesis submitted to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, page 104

   "Even within the international fatosphere and rad places of the internet, a lot of the fat femme people have perfectly chiseled faces. Even the deathfats," Rodríguez later tells me in an interview.

   2017 June 12, Marie Southard Ospina, “A Body Project: Cynthia Rodriguez On Their Chin(s)”, in Bustle