If we have to have “former fattie” as a trope, can we at least write characters whose lives weren’t 100% shitty beforehand and whose lives are not unequivocally better after weight loss? People who had friends and lovers while they were fat and are having trouble navigating their world after they lose weight?
Can we see women talking about how they trust men even less now because men they’ve known for years, who were aware of how fun and smart and talented they are suddenly started hitting on them when they lost 100 pounds.
Can we see someone who lost weight talking about how his boyfriend became super possessive because the boyfriend is afraid he’ll leave or cheat?
Or someone talking about how even though they didn’t lose that much weight, suddenly the types of people who are hitting on them has changed and some of the people who would have approached them before are holding back because of preconceived notions about how someone who looks like them will act?
Can we have characters who didn’t lose weight purposefully but because of illness talk about how torn they are about gaining weight back, because certain people do treat them better but they also feel like shit because they’re the same person, dammit and they love to eat.
Can we have characters who lost a bunch of weight and didn’t find themselves inundated with new romantic interests, and having to process that the magic fix didn’t work?
Basically can we have formerly fat characters who weren’t miserable before and whose lives aren’t magically transformed for the better just because they lost weight? Who deal with what is a huge life change realistically?
This randomly started getting notes and I was like oh yeah. This. Still.
I had to track this down because Netflix premiered Insatiable last week and are still promoting it really heavy despite it being a tired gross premise.
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