Ooh, this is a good post. I've been thinking about the issue of what kinds of people are considered "regular looking" a lot for the last while, literally just from my own perspective living in my city (the tl;dr is that I'm fat, visibly trans and visibly disabled, and it's interesting to note how different parts of me become hypervisible in different contexts) and your point about Hollywood's supposed gritty realism is such a good one.
My brain is also trying to offer up some thought about how Hollywood including any body type that doesn't fit into that (very narrow, statistically rare, barely attainable) standard is treated as a political statement in and of itself, but I can't quite make a coherent point out of it. Instead I'll just say: making the very presence of some bodies inherently political also sucks!
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Date: 2023-01-14 03:20 am (UTC)My brain is also trying to offer up some thought about how Hollywood including any body type that doesn't fit into that (very narrow, statistically rare, barely attainable) standard is treated as a political statement in and of itself, but I can't quite make a coherent point out of it. Instead I'll just say: making the very presence of some bodies inherently political also sucks!