Hollywood Hate of a Different Kind

There are very few female body types featured in movies or on TV. Honestly, this isn't just a Hollywood thing, it's a worldwide media thing. Skinny beyond belief with small tits or thin and curvacious seem to be what is acceptable. Yes, there are exceptions and there has been progress, albeit at the speed of a crippled snail on life support.

But you're thin and curvacious, Lacey, why do you care? Because there are too many girls out there with body image issues and eating disorders trying to be like these images of "perfection" even though it's all a bunch of digitally edited lies. Do you know how many teenage girls I've seen just recently that do nothing but talk about how fat they are? Girls that literally fucking starve themselves because they're scheduled for a fitting or coming to try on a dress that they just have to fit into?

No, the media isn't to blame for all of it, but they certainly play a big part in it. Celebrity endorsed weightloss products and machines, countless news stories on how this or that is bad for you and the newest diet trends all accompany the (airbrushed) magazines and (digitally edited) TV shows and movies. It's a juggernaut that assaults you from all angles telling you that you're wrong and disgusting and that you can't be happy if you've got fat on you. And it's not helped by the people in Hollywood who ARE heavy.

Take the woman who was supposed to be the champion of heavy women, she was gonna change everything! Melissa McCarthy. Yes, Mike and Molly was a sitcom, its purpose was to be funny. But every movie role she's taken on does nothing to further how heavy women are viewed. She plays a fat, stupid, food obsessed slob in just about everything she's been in. Why can't she have a serious part? If she cares at all about being a voice for heavy girls, why can't she turn down these ridiculous roles? None of them have turned a profit for the studios, so it's not like she's banking big money off of them.

There have been so few serious roles featuring heavy women, I honestly can't even think of any. There are people of all shapes, colors, sizes and ethnicities that have stories to tell, fictional and true. But the media machine seems content on repackaging the same crap year after year, making sequels, prequels and remakes that they obviously don't care. And the reason they don't care is because people keep buying it. Why reshape the mold when the old one still works so well?

So, there you go. That's why I hate Hollywood and the media. I have my shows that I watch, yeah. However, I find myself watching more true story type stuff (not Reality TV, crime documentaries, biographies, etc.) animal shows and sports than anything.

   ♥Lacey♡

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