Abstract
The entry focuses on the cultural relationship between online environment and the social reproduction of bodily standards. Online harassment, and especially online fat‐shaming, can be framed as the social reproduction of hegemonic gender, normative sexualities, and ideal bodies. In particular, such processes are deeply connected to “normalization” theories which refers, in everyday interactions, to all those practices which individuals use to control their own interactions in order to “appear” normal. Online fat‐shaming reveals how individuals use stigmatization as instruments to highlight the “abnormality” of those who possess “alarming” traits, conditions, and characteristics in order to bring them back to the norm. These processes also reveal how normative and ideal bodies are relational concepts which gain strength from the taken‐for‐granted “ideal.”
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