Fat Shaming in Disney Movies

incisron
incisron Posts: 550 Member
edited December 1 in Chit-Chat
All the Disney princesses are fit and beautiful. It's not fair. When people complained about the stereotypes Disney princesses fit into, instead of really fixing the problem, they just replaced the traditional dainty princess with Pocahontas, a woman with an athletic figure who jumps off cliffs and swims through rivers while singing underwater. Dont they think it will make us fat people feel bad? At first I thought Pocahontas was a movie about tolerance, till it got to the part where it said: "Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest / Come taste the sun sweet berries of the earth." Basically it's saying we have to run and get exercise and eat nothing but twigs and berries. I feel like Disney is a poor company.
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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    but, but....Star Wars...Marvel...and ESPN...
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    Those Southpark kids look pretty lardy too.
  • 2011rocket3touring
    2011rocket3touring Posts: 1,346 Member
    Technically she is period correct. Native American Indians weren't portly. I don't think I've ever seen a depiction of a fat one.
    Besides that isn't an issue limited to Disney. When I started watching BBC programming I was somewhat startled that all the main characters on their shows weren't beautiful.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    This can't be a serious post. It isn't serious, is it?
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    What about the fat octopus woman in the little mermaid??? She's never been on mfp!
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    _John_ wrote: »
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    i wish they had cast Danny Devito as Wolverine instead of huge jacked man. but they didn't. us short fat ugly guys have ZERO representation in Hollywood. its a sexist double standard.

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    dude...they got you covered...

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    you know, its really problematic how hollywood is flat out REFUSING to establish how sexy the normal male human physique is. when it comes to physical attraction, there is ZERO difference between a Jack Black and an Idris Elba. Women have been brainwashed by the media to think there is a difference, but they are wrong.

    Then you have near perfect examples of the male physic (Gaston in Beauty in the Beast) vilified as an example of stereotyped masculinity.
  • jenovatrix
    jenovatrix Posts: 219 Member
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
  • aub6689
    aub6689 Posts: 351 Member
    edited May 2016
    To be fair Disney hasn't given me any Disney princesses that are buff either. (I still love Disney though)
  • Tresiel
    Tresiel Posts: 98 Member
    going to assume this is a troll?
  • nikkylyn
    nikkylyn Posts: 325 Member
    uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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