Luckily, there are a few YA authors fighting the good fight when it comes to fat acceptance and body positivity. That ‘hotness’ should have anything to do with the shape of your body, rather than a sparkle in your eye and a confidence in your step. That violence against women will lead to that holy grail of consequences - losing weight. This is an insidious type of fatphobia that tells teenage girls that if only they could get their mouths wired shut after being punched in the face, they’d become ‘hot’. As it rightly points out, ‘this series will cause eating disorders, and perpetuate the further objectification of women’s bodies’.Īs a fat girl who has struggled with an eating disorder in the past, I absolutely agree that this series will cause harm to teenagers, specifically girls, who are already under so much pressure to conform to a specific body type. There was a petition going around to try to stop Netflix from releasing the series. This series is a hot mess - it perpetuates the idea that to be attractive is to be thin, that fat suits are a good idea, and that this is a narrative that teenage girls really need to be consuming in 2018. Insatiable, as I’m sure you’ve heard, is a Netflix series about ‘Fatty Patty’, a fat girl who takes revenge on her bullies after she loses weight and becomes ‘hot’. From fat suits to revenge stories, we’ve really seen the fatphobic side of Netflix these past few weeks.
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