Queen Sized (stereotypes about fatties)

[ladydreamer]

Lifetime had a movie on billed as sort of liberatory for fat girls. Instead, it's kind of like fat torture porn. It's called Queen Sized (much lolz based on the pantyhose us fat chicks wear, assuming we wear hose). It stars the girl who played Tracy Turnblad in the remake of Hair Spray 2007. The girl is cute enough, but the material is so overblown

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[hezul]

Drop Dead Diva is still the only thing I can tolerate from Lifetime. The rest of the time it's all RAPE! SPOUSAL ABUSE! WE ARE SO ~EMPOWERING TO WOMEN~ REALLY I SWEAR!

[ladydreamer]

I think that's exactly why that movie was on. Because it's screaming "LOOK HOW EMPOWERING TO WOMEN WE ARE OMG GOOOOOD DAMN".

While showing pictures of her cramming cakes and ice cream down her pie hole, compulsively.

NOM NOM NOM CAN'T STOP NOM NOM NOM

[ladydreamer]

I really would have liked it if they had angled this movie at her becoming so-what about her weight, instead of keeping with the idea that she's probably going to continue to try to lose it and obsess with it. That's not a happy ending to me. They could have cut out that drama in the middle with her gloryhounding (and then having to bow and scrape to apologize), and had her character grow further in her self-confidence and being okay with herself.

Sigh. A movie focusing on the other heavy girl who was okay with it would have been much better.

[ladydreamer]

I'm not sure that girl was really the lead character's friend. She's just another girl in school who wasn't a rail. I would have liked to see more development of friendships between her and that girl and her and the Gosh It's Hard to Be Thin and Pritty girl who seemed nice.

But no, not all fat people obsess about their size. I wish I were more over it, but I'm getting there. I certainly don't think about it all the time and run away in tears with a dolled-up hallucination of my mom stalking me.

It IS really hard to find nice clothes, though. I know my bitching about that is lessened because I'm at a size where I can find pretty decent stuff at Kohl's, Ross, or TJ Max, but bras? Dammit, you know, I would LOVE if I were proportioned the way the bra-makers think that I should be, but I'm a fat girl with small tits. I need a B cup, and I need it with a band around it that doesn't squish me and give me side-boob. Seriously, people. I need some support here!

[ladydreamer]

Ohhh, yeah. I was thinking, why did they wait until the very end for the friend to call the mom out on all that stuff? But it was a good scene.

Designers are damn lazy. Women have different bodies, but you could just design for a few different body TYPE and then there would be less tent dresses. Beads… you know, I like shiny things sometimes, but even if I found something that actually looked good, which mostly don't, as it is no longer the 80s, beads and shit come off so easily. Why would I want to buy anything that was going to lose its decoration after a few wearings? (Especially if it's ugly to begin with.)

Yeah, the bras either fit in the boobage area or around the back, but not both. The one I have now is mildly okay, but it was an expensive bra.