On being fat and likability

Still, participants didn’t merely exhibit a preference for thin figures and indifference to obese ones — they showed active dislike toward these theoretically obese. That finding, while regrettable, is enlightening.

From A Fatter Phobia at Miller-McCune.

It’s not clear from the Miller-McCune piece whether or how this varies by race and gender. For example, previous studies (I’m too lazy to find them) have shown that weight negatively affects white women’s earnings more than it affects those of black men and women. I wonder if the same holds true here. Do people revile obese black people any more than they revile obese white people? Do they revile obese black people more than they revile black people in general?