Meanings
- informaluncountableThinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting to the supposedly overweight viewer.
The practice of meanspo is also a response to this desperate need to find motivation by putting oneself down.
2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, page 242 more examples
Therefore, if these behaviors are occurring, we strongly encourage carers to set parental controls on all electronic devices to block the eating disorder from receiving reinforcement in the form of meanspo on social media, pro-ana websites, pro-bulimia (pro-mia) websites, and the like.
2019, Tara L. Deliberto, Dina Hirsch, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating, unnumbered pageSome of the meanspo I’ve read use language as vicious and demeaning as incel “sui-fuel,” posts that encourage incels to kill themselves (“Incels” 00:14:11).
2019, Haley Gustafson, "The Limits of Empathy", Mercer Street (New York University), 2019/2020 Issue, pages 126
Origin
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