許多文獻與經驗研究證實肥胖污名的存在與肥胖污名的高度性別化，女性被預設要瘦，胖女性因此容易受到貶損。儘管諸多肥胖研究從工作、流行時尚或公衛醫療為切入點，卻鮮少有研究探討這群在異性戀親密關係中作為弱勢的胖女性如何經營她們的情感關係。本研究以此為基礎進一步探討胖女性的交友軟體使用經驗，且不只探討她們如何管理污名，更希望看見她們如何在軟體中利用機緣以抵抗肥胖污名，此抵抗並非常見的反叛式對抗，而是弱者在權力體制下利用既有資源拼裝出的戰術。
在訪談13位胖女性後，研究發現胖女性們因各種過往經歷而意識到肥胖污名，多數受訪者會將其內化並透過化妝、陰性打扮或各種顯瘦的角度嘗試貼近主流，在線上空間中的特定時機更會觸發她們的明確感知。然而另一方面，交友軟體內的機緣給予她們更多發展親密關係的機會，受訪者們除了會被動感知何種場合與時機適合揭露身體，更會主動展露自己作為此在的其他面向。當這些機緣、肥胖污名以及她們的能動性結合下就會創造出各種別具意義的揭露方式，而使用軟體本身以及軟體層層遞進的階段性更賦予她們不同於實體接觸的親密關係可能。
本研究也進一步探討何以皆為胖女性，不同受訪者卻對類似行為有不同詮釋。部分受訪者因過去經驗而對身體產生反思，最終發展出特殊的心態與論述抵抗肥胖污名──她們意識到它的存在卻不將其內化。因此透過將受訪者的行動置於過去經驗、當下使用乃至於未來想像的時間縱深中，本研究重新論證肥胖作為一個被污名化的特質乃是被建構的：它是如此，但它也可以不必是如此。

Numerous studies and empirical research confirm the existence of fat stigma and its highly gendered nature: women are expected to be thin, and fat women are therefore more likely to be devalued. Although many studies on the fatness examines labor, fashion, or public health, few studies investigate how this disadvantaged group—fat women in heterosexual intimacy—manages their romantic lives. Building on that gap, this study examines fat women’s experiences with dating apps, asking not only how they manage stigma but also how they use platform-based affordances to resist it. This resistance is not the familiar form of open rebellion but rather a series of tactics of “bricolage”—the weak using available resources within power structures.
After interviewing 13 fat women, the study finds that they are aware of fat stigma through a variety of past experiences. Most internalize this stigma and attempt to conform to mainstream norms through makeup, feminine clothing, or other slimming strategies. Specific moments in online space particularly trigger awareness for stigma. On the other hand, dating apps provide more opportunities to develop intimacy. Respondents not only passively perceive when and where to reveal their bodies, but also actively present other aspects of themselves as Dasein. When these affordances intersect with fat stigma and their agency, they create varied and meaningful ways of revealing. The use of apps themselves—and their staged, progressive interactional phases—also enable possibilities for intimacy that differ from face-to-face encounters.
The study further examines why women who are all categorized as fat nevertheless interpret similar behaviors differently. Some respondents, due to past experiences, reflect on their bodies and develop distinct mindsets and discourses to resist fat stigma—they recognize its existence but do not internalize it. Therefore, by situating respondents’actions within the temporal context of past experiences, present use, and future imaginations, this study re-argues that fatness as a stigmatized trait is socially constructed: it is so, but it does not have to be.

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