meanspo
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]meanspo (uncountable)
- (informal) Thinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting to the supposedly overweight viewer.
- 2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, page 24:
- The practice of meanspo is also a response to this desperate need to find motivation by putting oneself down.
- 2019, Tara L. Deliberto, Dina Hirsch, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating, unnumbered page:
- 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, Haley Gustafson, "The Limits of Empathy", Mercer Street (New York University), 2019/2020 Issue, pages 126:
- Some 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).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:meanspo.