So many stories about fatness have been about sadness and self-loathing. But as Shrill, Dumplin’, and Isn’t It Romantic show, they don’t have to be.
has a storyline about a fat woman that is entirely about her weight, her pain, and her eventual weight loss surgery .starring Shannon Purser as Sierra , revolves around a fat high school girl catfishing Jamey and technically sexually assaulting him by kissing him when he believes he’s kissing someone else. It ends with Shannon’s character Sierra being told she’s not anyone’s type, and if resident hunky hottie Jamey had known what she’d looked like from the beginning, he never would’ve loved her.
There has been such a dearth of positive representation of fat characters in TV and film that I never had the privilege of asking “Is this good?” or “Is this art?” as an entire concept. But they still fail at issues of size and weight; Terry’s former fatness is still played for laughs as a shameful time when he was out of control. Scully’s and Hitchcock’s size is supposed to be part of what makes them funny. On, Tan and Antoni are always talking about what’s flattering and healthy, respectively, with their heavier clients. In Episode 4 ofSeason 3, a father laments that his daughter is gaining weight. “And who’s feeding her?” Antoni demands.
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