What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

In 2019 Harvard University released a study based on the results of their immensely popular online implicit bias test. The test asks participants to move through rapidly flashing slides of words and images to measure their unconscious biases around race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, weight, and other characteristics. The study, published in Psychological Science, reviewed the results of over four million test takers over the course of nine years. On some fronts, the findings were promising. According to the study’s lead author, Tessa Charlesworth, “The most striking finding is that sexuality attitudes have changed toward neutrality, toward