Netflix's 'Insatiable' is wrong - you don't need to be thin to be your best self

Netflix's 'Insatiable' is wrong - you don't need to be thin to be your best self:

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video  Netflix‘s latest teen-targeted series, a ‘dark, twisted revenge comedy’ called Insatiable, starring Debby Ryan, has dropped its trailer and caused undoubtedly divided opinion.  From what we can tell from the trailer, Insatiable tells the story of poor Fatty Patty, who for years has been oinked at in the school corridors because she is – you’ve guessed it – fat.  But don’t worry, Fatty Patty is about to make those bullies eat their words and finally sit up and recognise her for the person that she is, rather than her dress size.  Does she embark on a journey of self-love and acceptance to finally find the strength and confidence to stand up to her tormentors?  Does she recognise that although her body is a little bit squishy, it’s still capable of marvellous things?  Nope, she gets thin. Duh.  Patty has her jaw wired shut over summer vacation, loses weight, gets herself a new wardrobe, finds herself a makeup bag – that she apparently didn’t have when she was fat – and plans her revenge upon those who bullied her.  I don’t hate the aspect of retribution, but the idea that now she’s lost weight she has her revenge body? No.  Haven’t we already gone through this, when we rolled our eyes and pointed out exactly what was wrong with Khloe Kardashian’s trainwreck TV show, Revenge Body?  When Patty returns to school, everyone’s stunned by her physical change. Cue a slow motion walk through the school corridor, wind in hair, minus a few pounds.  ‘Patty’s HOT,’ one girl exclaims.  In an interview with Teen Vogue, creator Lauren Gussis and star of the show Debbie Ryan defend the show and say the aim is to ‘push the bar forward’.  Alyssa Milano, who plays Patty’s beauty pageant trainer, claim they’re ‘not shaming Patty’ but addressing ‘the damage that occurs from fat shaming’.  I don’t think so.  Many body positive activists and influencers have taken to Twitter, saying that Insatiable reinforces stereotypes about fat people and the damaging link between the media’s portrayal of thin equating desirability.  It also relies on the trope of movie and TV characters losing weight in order to become attractive or desirable.  ‘Having my jaw wired shut lost me more than just my summer vacation,’ Patty says in the trailer. ‘Now, I could be the former fatty who turned into a brain. Or an athlete. Or a princess. No, I’d rather have revenge.’  The message that there needs to be this physical change in Fatty Patty so that she can have her revenge irks me. So does the idea that she’d need to be thin in order to be a brain, athlete or princess.  People can be all of those things regardless of their size.  Fat people are teachers, scientists, doctors, models, influencers, mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, friends and more.  Highlighting that Patty ‘couldn’t’ be those things before she had her jaw wired shut perpetuates the damaging thought process that
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