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Not sure why this article is nominated for deletion. If anything should be removed from the lexicon, it's "fatphobia," an embarrassing neologism created by those too lazy to look up words, and decided to invent one. And lexicons more reputable than this one certainly include it. For instance: https://www.fearof.net/fear-of-fat-people-phobia-cacomorphobia/

Or this one: https://psychotreat.com/cacomorphobia-or-fear-of-fat-people/

More to the point, the word can still be found, particularly in sources that predate the embarrassing non-word fatphobia. For instance, in this article in 2020, which addresses the ham sandwich rumor surrounding the death of Cass Elliot: https://www.culledculture.com/cass-elliot-death/

The article includes the sentence: "The fact that Elliot was made to be the punchline of yet another cruel weight joke even in death spoke to just how rampant the cacomorphobia of the era was."

I will certainly continue to use the word myself, and will actively avoid the use of this contrived and unnecessary "fatphobia," mainly because I do not wish to look like an idiot. PJC1965 (talk) 13:58, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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