[ SECRET POST #7099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7099 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen Up, but I did not like Wall-E. I, a fat person, saw it in the theater with a friend who is also fat. We exchanged a look partway through because both of us felt like it was fatphobic. You are free to disagree, and you can come up with reasons to justify why the human characters were the way that they were, but it felt fatphobic to both me and my friend, and so I did not enjoy that movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Only if you are incredibly dedicated to being intellectually lazy and incurious as well as lying in a giant onsie is Wall-E fatphobic. It is not about weight, it is about lack of personal ambition.

So with that in mind, you still feel like you catching strays?

[(Anonymous)]

It's not fatphobic. People just happened to be fat because they were just sitting around and not doing much else. It's great to relax, but too much of a good thing is bad.

Also, as a fat person myself, I can confirm a sedentary lifestyle can make you fat. Not always, but it can.

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

They also weren't naturally fat. They were sedentary due to hedonism.

[(Anonymous)]

I get what you mean, it comes across a bit over the top at times.

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

Same for me with Wall E. But I do like Up.

[philstar22]

This is me. I'm meh on Wall E, it bored me. But I love Up.

[(Anonymous)]

You took something with an obvious in-context explanation (they don't ever walk) personally and you 'feel' it's fatphobic because of that? Get a grip.

- also a fat person

[erinptah]

It's wild to see how much pushback this comment is getting. Really, people are pretending you can't see how "all the characters with no personal ambition are cartoonishly fat, and the only visual cue about their lack of ambition is their fatness, no exceptions" is fatphobic? Come on.

It's such a lazy visual shorthand on the part of the animators, too. The Earth-based part of the film had so much thoughtful and creative art design, I can understand if that was the part they really cared about, but "we didn't seriously think about the worldbuilding on the ship at all, why bother making an effort when you can just rely on thoughtless cliches like laziness = fatness" was even more of a letdown by comparison.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. Do you know what else commonly happens to extremely sedentary people? Muscle wastage and weight loss. "Fat" very clearly means "lazy" here. And other parts of the movie were smart, but this was just so stupid and boring.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

+10, Also surprised, Wall-E being criticised for this has been a thing for a while now. Just because they have in-universe reasoning it doesn't stop it from being a fatphobic trope. As someone who really likes Wall-E.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup!
Exactly this.
It is fatphobic, it was a discussion from a day 1 about Walle-e.