00:07So Hansel and Gretel, you know they're like these adorable children who like go
00:12to this hideous woman's house made of candy so it's already like she's such a
00:18glutton and this ode to gluttony right and then she eats them because she's so
00:25like that's what fat people do. They eat babies obviously, right?
00:36Bring them closer.
00:44It's something less than human. It's something that will hurt you and that will threaten you and
00:50you just gotta run, you know, it's the beast, you know, it's horrible.
00:59Jabba the Hutt. I think he's the ultimate villain. He is everything that gluttony, you know, is in visual form
01:07and
01:08he's the worst of the worst and I think that's like the perfect example of how we really view fat
01:13people.
01:16There's a new Scooby-Doo movie and one of the main plot points is that Daphne, who's thin and hot,
01:24is like her
01:25main personality trait as far as I can tell. Because women always just get shafted no matter what, by the
01:30way.
01:31That's Daphne's personality. She's hot. So Daphne gets mixed up with some sort of warlock and she's cursed.
01:40But instead of a normal curse, like, you know, she's turned into a werewolf or
01:46she gets trapped in a magic mirror or something, her curse is that she has to be a fat lady.
01:51Is that why I've lost my looks? Is this because I'm cursed?
01:56How can people not think what would that feel like if my body was literally presented as a curse?
02:04Her curse is that she looks like me. And I'm supposed to show that to my kids?
02:08I'm supposed to show that to my kids and have them internalize that narrative?
02:13No. Scooby-Doo, you're dead to me.
02:16Get away from me. Get away from my kids.
02:24I mean, I grew up in the late 60s or 70s, 80s. I remember watching those Disney Sunday night movies
02:31with the kids doing their little adventures and I was so thoroughly alienated.
02:36I didn't have the word for it then, but they were all thin. They were all so not me.
02:43I'm trying to think of who my role models were. I mean, I always looked up to the girls that
02:48weren't fat, to be honest, like Annie.
02:50I remember, like, I was obsessed with Andrew McArdle and all the characters in Annie.
02:54And in fact, you know, I was a singer as a child and I wanted to audition for Annie.
02:58I was desperate to be up on stage. And my mother, I remember her telling me that I wasn't the
03:02starving orphan type.
03:05Yeah, I would never have thought that I could be an actor just by looking at other actors.
03:10Because there were no fat actors.
03:23I definitely had, I had no gay, male, fat person to look up to.
03:29There's nothing, and we're not reflected in any ads.
03:40If I was to see someone of my size or anywhere near my size in an ad for clothes or
03:47for anything fun, exciting in a pool in Vegas or something, I mean, you know, with a cocktail, that would
03:54be amazing.
03:55But it's never done. It's always the guys with the, you know, six-pack abs.
03:59And I'm sure they have great times and great sex and all that stuff. But I said why.
04:11I didn't see myself represented and I'm much closer to the, you know, cultural ideal in terms of body size.
04:18But, you know, there's a total lack of body diversity.
04:25It's not that, you know, thin models are bad and evil and it's just that we only see thin white
04:32models.
04:33We don't see that diversity.
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