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meanspo

meanspo noun: thinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting to the supposedly overweight viewer.

Noun

meanspo (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Thinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting to the supposedly overweight viewer.
    • The practice of meanspo is also a response to this desperate need to find motivation by putting oneself down.2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, page 24
    • 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, Tara L. Deliberto, Dina Hirsch, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating, unnumbered page

Origin of meanspo

From mean + -spo.

Questions about meanspo

What does meanspo mean?
Meanspo means thinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting to the supposedly overweight viewer.
What part of speech is meanspo?
Meanspo is a noun.

Words near meanspo in the dictionary

  1. Meanses
  2. meanship
  3. meanspirited
  4. meanspiritedly
  5. meanspiritedness
  6. meanspo
  7. meant
  8. meant business
  9. meant everything to
  10. meant the whole world to
  11. meant the world to

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