Fatphobia Can Be Reduced With Compassion and Education

  In recent decades, the dominant aesthetic canon has given rise to a type of discrimination against fat bodies. It’s been given the name of fatphobia. The obsession with the pursuit of beauty is nothing new. If the history of art has taught us anything about the aesthetic canon, it’s the fact that it’s both changeable and variable. From the Venuses of Willendorf and their voluptuous forms to the Graces with wide hips and pale skin that Rubens portrayed in the Renaissance, to the dangerously corseted bodies of Victorian women. Since the appearance and popularization of the cinema and the…