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đŸ§”I’m seeing a good number of people talk about Whale and how fatphobic people are. That it takes watching a movie with a non-fat actor to even consider fat people as humans. And it’s disgusting because there are thousands of comments to these tweets saying things like,
“Eat a salad” “Fat people are unhealthy and gross” and so many other insults and jokes about fat people. DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS SUCH A BLATANT SHOW OF DISCRIMINATION?! Fat people are people and for some reason, society says it’s okay to just absolutely attack people
that aren’t the “ideal” body type. Let’s do an experiment: Read some things (articles, blogs, tweets, whatever) where people can comment on other people’s bodies. Replace “fat” with “black”. “Black people are such gross slobs. Eat another burger, you black piece of shit.”
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Listen. It took me years to realize I stopped auditioning for musical theater not bc I was lazy, but bc I was in pain. It wasn’t the rejection—it was walking into a room & being made to feel like your body was unreasonable, that by showing up you were wasting everyone’s time.
It was standing in a row with 30 girls in leotards and LaDucas and watching the casting director’s eyes skip over you as he scanned the line, or mindlessly push your headshot to the rejection pile with without even looking at you long enough to see your face.
It was the urge to walk up to the only other big girl in the holding room & sit in silent camaraderie, while secretly hating she was there. There were only so many “old lady” (or “fat friend” or “clueless teen” or “sassy villain”) roles to go around and they’d never cast you both
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