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A fat film critic is not happy at how fat thor is treated and mocked in Avengers Endgame...
This is basically a fat women who feels insecure about her fatness trying to force everyone to see a negative trait as a positive. Being fat and out of shape is not a positive and it never should be.
A fat film critic is not happy at how fat thor is treated and mocked in Avengers Endgame...
This is basically a fat women who feels insecure about her fatness trying to force everyone to see a negative trait as a positive. Being fat and out of shape is not a positive and it never should be.
I sat in a theater and felt my excitement turn to heartache as Thor swung his fat-suited body clumsily across the screen, and everyone around me laughed. I had to endure that laughter every single time — every single time — the padded-up Thor appeared over the course of the next three hours. The laughter was never with Thor, but always at his expense. Even when he wasn’t doing anything particularly funny, the audience giggled, because isn’t it hilarious that Thor has a gut?! I was shocked to see Thor treated this way, even more so because I thought we were finally moving forward as a culture.
Marvel has traded on the sex appeal of its stars — and of Thor in particular — for over a decade. They’ve reinforced time and time again what a hero looks like — tall, muscular, waxed, oiled, white, male. They’ve expanded that somewhat in recent years through the likes of Black Panther and Captain Marvel, although the physical appearance of superheroes even in those movies largely conforms to the same old narrow constraints of what beauty is. With Fat Thor, Marvel had the chance to push those boundaries further. Instead, they diminished his hero status. It was as though the fatter he got, the less he was worth.
Which leaves fat people sitting in the audience – people like me, and no doubt countless others, including little kids – feeling pretty worthless too.
Fat men and fat women deserve the chance to be heroes. They deserve the chance to be people.
They deserve to be more than a fat joke.
Marvel has traded on the sex appeal of its stars — and of Thor in particular — for over a decade. They’ve reinforced time and time again what a hero looks like — tall, muscular, waxed, oiled, white, male. They’ve expanded that somewhat in recent years through the likes of Black Panther and Captain Marvel, although the physical appearance of superheroes even in those movies largely conforms to the same old narrow constraints of what beauty is. With Fat Thor, Marvel had the chance to push those boundaries further. Instead, they diminished his hero status. It was as though the fatter he got, the less he was worth.
Which leaves fat people sitting in the audience – people like me, and no doubt countless others, including little kids – feeling pretty worthless too.
Fat men and fat women deserve the chance to be heroes. They deserve the chance to be people.
They deserve to be more than a fat joke.
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