Using fat suits to enable fat jokes unwittingly give viewers permission to reenact these behaviours in real life.
, which have played a key role in the normalisation of fatphobia as we're encouraged to laugh at the ‘fat’ character's expense.
TV shows and films that use fat suits to enable and encourage fat jokes unwittingly give the audience permission to reenact these behaviours in real life. Bullied throughout my school life for my size, I believe that the portrayal of fat people and the use of fat suits in the media encouraged people to pick on me and so many other people like me – making society an unequal place for those who happen to be bigger in stature.
As well as ignoring the fact that fat people can’t just take off their body at the end of the day, Gwyneth also spoke of the experience with little empathy for the group of people she was portraying. To my knowledge, she never did anything to make larger people feel less humiliated and even the clothes stocked on her website Goop only go up to a size large – a UK 12-14.
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