[ SECRET POST #4385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4385 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Detroit: Become Human]


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03.
(Timeless)


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04.
[Ben from Simply Nailogical and Rich Evans from Red Letter Media]


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05.
(Netflix's Dumplin')


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06.
[Criminal Minds, season 3 episode 7 "Identity"]


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07.
[The Lion King (2019)]


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08.
[Thomas Middleditch]







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Comments

[fscom]

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(Netflix's Dumplin')

[(Anonymous)]

I see your point, but one of the things I liked was that she wasn't forced to be a perfect character with only her weight as a narrative flaw in order to be sympathetic. She has her own prejudices, she's not impervious to jealousy at the idea of her best friend actually being into the competition and making other friends (and IIRC she's called out for that) and she expresses a lot of insecurity and yes, meanness to others. She's not a paragon of tolerance and understanding just because she's fat.

[shortcrust]

She was a very real feeling character for those reasons, for me. I wasn't 'rooting' for her, as OP says, but I followed her actions with zero questioning. They made sense, because she made sense, and felt like a person.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's a good way to put it. I didn't... NOT root for her, but she was a sympathetic enough character where I wanted to see what happened to her. Her flaws felt very human, and very appropriate for a teenage girl.

[(Anonymous)]

Secret maker: I didn’t need her to be a perfect character or even to never treat others badly. I just wantef to see her get called on it and apologize. The movie was too Halmark-y and corny for me to want that kind of realism in it where she stayed flawed and only got her comeuppance for hurting the feelings of her conventionally attractive friend instead of her treatment towards the others. The whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth, like the narrative was more about “ it’s okay to be *this* far from society’s beauty standards but if you’re *that* far it’s just a joke”.

[(Anonymous)]

I felt like there was a consistent thread of her hating the beauty standards around her and butting against them but having a lot of internalized issues that made it hard for her to unironically be proud of herself, which fed into that harsh secondhand embarrassment towards those who found it easier. It was like how she found out her aunt who didn't seem intimidated at all by the shittiness of the world still couldn't always put herself out there. So when she decides to actually treat the pageant seriously and helps others take it seriously, I thought that was enough of an implication of her growth.