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About
Fat Logic (sometimes written as Fatlogic) is a term used online to describe notions often used by overweight individuals to justify certain lifestyle choices. In popular culture, the term is often used for “fat shaming” and in opposition to the Fat Acceptance Movement
Precursor: Fat Acceptance and Health At Every Size movements
Main entry: Fat Acceptance Movement
Fat Acceptance Movement (often abbreviated as FA) is a social movement to combat “fat shaming” (or “fatphobia”) from popular culture such as social media and gaming. The movement was deemed controversial, sparking the creation of groups going against the movement in social hubs like reddit.
Origin
Although the actual origin of the term “fat logic” is unclear, the earliest known instance of the term is found to be with the creation of the reddit subreddit /r/fatlogic in April 2013[1].
Spread
On the 19th of May, the Twitter handle @FatLogic submitted its first tweet, “It’s my THYROID!!!!”[3]
Urban Dictionary user Galanity submitted a definition for the term “fatlogic” on the 21st of July 2013, defining it as “The astounding mental gyrations obese people use to justify their size. Fatlogic never, ever includes eating too much and exercising too little.”[2]
On the 30th of July 2014, /r/fatlogic created an Imgur album called “fatlogic reposts” listing various images that are posted often on the subreddit[4].
The hashtag #fatlogic is often used on social media sites like Twitter and Tumblr to tag images and posts relating to fat logic[5][6].
Search Interest
References
[1]reddit – /r/fatlogic. Disabling the subreddit’s CSS reveals that the subreddit was created on the 17th of April 2013.
[2]Urban Dictionary – Fatlogic
[3]Twitter #FirstTweet – @FatLogic
[4]Imgur – fatlogic reposts
[5]Tumblr – #fat logic