Current Events > Netflix's Matilda accused of fatphobia!!

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scar the 1 posted...

Yeah, that's the way I read your post. Sorry if I misunderstood. It's a fairly common sentiment on here.

It's mostly that one guy with 5 alts. Sometimes woodlice from 261 come over.

Do they make that kid eat that big ass choc cake in this show?

Guide posted...

It's mostly that one guy with 5 alts. Sometimes woodlice from 261 come over.

Only real life competitive eaters can portray that role. It's only fair.

But trunchbull is supposed to be fit and muscular. Some people have gotten ridiculous about looking for things to be offended by. They have no idea how stupid and belligerent they make themselves look.

InTheEyesOfFire posted...

Right. Have they even seen how far she can throw that shot put? Im pretty sure no obese person could do that.

That poor kindergartner was just a warm up.

Nerevar791 posted...

Reminder that being fat is a choice and efforts to portray it as something intrinsic like sexual orientation or gender identity are in completely bad faith.

Fucking this, and I say that as a fatass myself.

I wasn't born this way, I opted to be lazy with a poor diet.

Did anyone actually ask for this?

It's like someone trying to remake a musical based off of Mrs Doubtfire.

https://youtu.be/t2mU6USTBRE

Nerevar791 posted...

Reminder that being fat is a choice and efforts to portray it as something intrinsic like sexual orientation or gender identity are in completely bad faith.

that oversimplifies things
everyones metabolism is different and there are people who can gain weight incredibly quickly but take forever to burn it off
eventually if they keep a steady diet and work out routine they will lose the weight but it must be incredibly frustrating to put the work in and barely see an effort just because you are one of the ones who takes longer to lose the weight while others drop pounds swiftly.

shaming and mocking them doesnt help. its just going to make them depressed and more likely to give up
what they need is kindness and encouragement to keep up the work to get down to a healthy weight
but people just want to be hateful and mean and so they dont care if they are doing more harm than good they just want an easy target to ridicule

yes we shouldnt portray being obese as a good thing just as we wouldnt with anorexia
but we shouldnt go out of our way to make overweight people feel bad about themselves either

and people also push things to far. like how people complained that tara in buffy the vampire slayer was too fat to be on tv. even though amber benson was a completely normal healthy weight
but people acted like she was a beached whale

here is a clip of tara if you have never seen buffy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gDLA3fWAI