But I really HATE this Drop Dead Diva programme. Not only is it shallow, poorly written and cast, and typical Hollywood shite, it digs a knife into and then makes fun of every overweight person on the planet.
Skinny "gorgeous" blonde twinkie dies accidentally, and what's the worst possible thing that could happen to her? She could come back as a fat chick! OMG! She'd probably rather spend an eternity in the worst hell than have to live in this society as a fattie. God forbid.
Of course, the premise is probably something faux-noble like "Even fat chicks need love too." But the stereotypes are just too smothering, suggesting that your typical skinny American (and the rest) woman would much rather be as thick as two planks, personality minus and the cruellest bitch in the coven than be a fattie.
And that men in Hollywood - for surely this programme was created by men - find more attractive skinny women with no personality than chubby girls with a bit of soul.
How did society come to this? And even the DDD people don't believe their own tripe.
Now, you tell me the two women in these photos are the same woman. The woman in the advertising poster has been edited down 5 dress sizes from the woman in the screenshot from the show. I guess the producers thought nobody would tune in to the pilot if they put a hideously fat woman in the poster. And what might be even scarier is that the shrunken woman in the poster is still considered curvy, plus size, fluffy, fat.
The show does have one positive benefit. It highlights the discrimination fat people, men and women, face every day, even if it does so by, in a veiled way, making fun at them and their hideousness by reinforcing every negative stereotype about women in general, and specifically overweight women.
It's fascinating that this sort of thinking prevails - that many women are obsessed about their weight and every extra ounce over a stick thin twinky frame - in light of the fact that a vast majority of men prefer, and find attractive, a woman with a few curves and, god forbid, a body shape that is, according to the movie, TV, and beauty industries, completely undesirable.*
*I hate to qualify anything, but I thought I'd better add that I realise many/most women do not obsess about their weight solely because they want to be attractive to men. But I do believe it's a factor.
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Now I know why I couldnt keep up with the programme last night. I never saw the first episode!
I didnt watch it all, but I didnt like the way they portrayed the skinny girls.. dumb bimbos!
You might be right about them editing the photo down a few sizes, but also look at the clothes. The Poster has her in beautifully tailored clothes that suited her, on TV they have her in hideous unflattering, ill fitting clothes. They say TV and movies add 10 pounds - so do the clothes you wear.
I must admit, I could not work out which demographic this show was aimed at.
It did highlight the discrimination faced by fat people almost daily and it does regularly occur in the work force as well as in normal everyday life.. airplane seats which now suggest fat people buy two. Getting into some Supermarkets, where they have a turnstile type of thing..to give a couple of examples.
I know a big woman (sorry, find it hard saying fat) who doesnt give a toss about being big. She always looks good and has an incredible personality and is attractive. Then I know a big woman who can not handle being big. Feels unattractive in all respects and this possibly comes out in her personality and lack of self esteem. What is worse, is this big woman has lost weight and having hoped it would make her feel attractive is absolutely gutted to find it isnt so.
I would agree with your qualification at the end, that not all obsess about their weight solely to be attractive to men, but would like to add to be attractive to anyone especially themselves. And you would be right about being attractive for a man being a big factor for an overweight woman, possibly more the single woman.
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