Hello and welcome to the 6 o'clock news I'm your host, Divya G, an online
petition has garnered over a hundred and sixty-nine thousand
signatures over the past few days, calling for the boycott of Netflix's new
series: Insatiable, starring the lead role Debby Ryan. Amidst a flurry of online
backlash, reports say that this resulted in a Public statement by the actress
taking on the lead role of Patty defending her choices.... and it's not even
out yet. Back to you in the studio. So what is going on? So Netflix dropped the
trailer for the new show insatiable and the main gripes that people have with it
actually there's a lot of gripes that people have with it - I think that the
main issues all mostly surround this notion of fat shaming and how fatness is
portrayed in our society so let's watch the trailer together! Oh I see a hashtag
hashtag millennial hashtag relatable you know hashtag subscribe. "My name is Patty"
First of all, no one born after 1950 is called Patty - that's just historically
inaccurate. Subscribe for more FACCCCCCCCCCCCts. Judging by you know the Mark's & Spencer's
floral patterns at least her name is keeping up with with the aesthetic. And
we all know that they just used the word Patty so that in this next clip
they can rhyme it with with Fatty. I never went to an American high school
but do people actually form crowds like this? Like does this actually happen? Do
they not have lessons to go? Horizons to expand? Notice how everyone in this trailer
pretty much everyone is kind of thin and Patty seems to be like the only like
thicker girl which, first of all, we have a historical inaccuracies
secondly we have geographical and statistical inaccuracy because if I am
NOT wrong isn't the majority of Americans overweight or obese? It's kind
of like you know when Harry Potter was the only one who wore glasses in the
entirety of Hogwarts like you're telling me no one else is blind? "While my classmates
were out losing their virginity I was at home stuffing another hole"
because PaTtY Is NoT lIkE OthEr GirLs!!!!11!!
"something something" yeah I have no idea what she said
"Then it hit me"
hah!
insert dramatic magical transformation right about here
"Where's Patty?" "Right here"
oh look at that Wow she even- she's got HOOPS the bigger the
hoop
"Patty's HOT!" firstly, no one does this
secondly,
no one does this.
Secondly, the fact that she's
now described as hot having undergone you know this dramatic weight loss
transformation just goes to show me that in the society to be considered you know
physically attractive you can't be large.
*Yeah editing errors here but we shall pretend it makes sense*
this is like every great high school movie ever made
okay first of all they're trying to be self-aware all right I guess every great
high school movie ever made except for the fact that you know at the end of
every great high school movie ever made the character often goes through a
reform where they find out that beauty is not the only defining characteristic
or the fact that every great high school movie ever made isn't actually that
great after all and all of them do have questionable morals but Go Off Sis but
I could be the former fatty who turned into a brain, or an athlete, or a princess. You know you cAn'T bE mOrE
than oNe thiING!!! and you know somehow the term "fatty" occupies its own social group
They're not split up members of one direction okay you don't have to stick
to the status quo if you want to make the perfect creme brulee - make the perfect creme brulee
you know?No one's stopping you.
is this supposed to be funny because that's just scary
Patty popped off.
The movie makeover transformation trope or as we like to
call it the "glo up" when you're typically characterized as geeky nerdy
social outcasts probably has frizzy hair probably has glasses probably has acne
girl with different interests and no love life you know..... it's a caterpillar
transformation from a thicccccccccccc caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly the idea
seems to be based around this idea of revenge okay
only once weight loss has happened does she feel confident enough to confront
her bullies give him a knuckle sandwich!!!! only once weight loss has happened does
appear that she's kissing some dude therefore she is deemed you know
desirable. To me that just replicates the discourse that fat people are like
physically and sexually undesirable. I mean for one hand you could say yeah but
it's just highlighting the fact that this is the issue in the first place to
me because it's such a dramatic visual transformation the visual element of it
all just highlights that one form deems to be superior. If their intention was to
highlight the issue in the first place, wouldn't it be such a more impactful
message if weight-loss didn't even occur in the first place? If like the transformation
was mental instead of physical. Then because of all of this backlash Debby Ryan ended
up writing a dissertation explaining her feelings. There's a bit where she says "the
redemption is in identifying the bullies and saying this is not okay" redemption?
and this is not okay? Is she talking about the bit where she pours
alcohol over a sleeping guys body threatening to light it on fire
reckless driving and physical assault?.......... She says in the statement "Patty had the
same brain" so therefore implying that she didn't change but for me she
came off a cross really catty and bitter like bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
you're still ugly. No matter how much you glitter you put on a turd at the end of the
day if you wipe the glitter off - it's still a turd. It's a pretty turd!
But it's a turd no matter how much fabreeze you spray on that to get rid
of the stench... it's still gonna stink okay
the metaphor I'm making is the fact that insides matter a lot more than your
physical exterior okay don't be a turd. There's a piece of criticism
that says "putting thin performance in fat suits is no different than putting
white performers in blackface" and what they're talking about basically is the
politics behind fat suit. So while some people might argue that you know putting
on a fat suit is no different to putting on prosthetics such as you know changing
your nose shape or like pretending that you have wounds or you know having no
nose like Voldemort
fat people aren't Voldemort. I think the problem lies in donning the vast
majority of people's everyday realities as a costume for ridicule. If we're going
to be following plato's theory of you know the superiority of laughter we are
supposed to laugh when we recognize social inequalities and you know
mistreatment is when the audience feel superior to the person that they're
laughing at but it's just me or did anyone watch that trailer and not find
it funny like AT ALL? It's supposed to be satire it's a way to poke fun at the hardest things
okay satire let's look up the definition. I feel like, if you have to write the
Oxford Dictionary a whole dissertation to explain that it was supposed to be
satire the fault lies not in the audience who "didn't get the fact that it was satire" it
lies in the way that the trailer perhaps was executed. At the end of the day this is all
just based on one trailer. We you don't know Patty's formula yet, okay, it could
go in so many different moral directions. Maybe she doesn't set a dude on fir- Oh sorry I can't! It's just so ridiculous.
The way
that it came across was superficial, full of cliches, relies on stereotypical
narratives and iterates the fact that your physical exterior is the primary
defining feature in your worth and treatment as a person when in reality
our bodies are just a shell and inside? Nut. I doubt they're gonna cancel the
show but do you think you're gonna watch it? What does the G stand for? The G stands for
got new glasses. So last time I complained about not being sponsored
and I don't know how but you know Firmoo contacted me and they said "Oh would you
like to review" so this isn't sponsored it's literally just I got glasses in
return for an honest review and I was like "Yes, sure girl, I will. So here comes
the ~review~ It's 40 degrees today and my
enzymes are denaturing so what better time than now then to test whether my
sweaty nose is gonna affect whether my glasses stay up on my face or not?
So far so good! I'm not gonna lie to you in the past few years the
case quality has downgraded because first of all this is my other case I
don't know if you can see this just a lot thicker. It's good for really cute trendy glasses
that you don't have to pay your entire soul, kidney and left toe for. Cute? Cheap?
maybe minus the cute but- cheap? That's just like me! I'm not gonna lie to you - they do
feel plasticy and my old one feels a lot sturdier than this one this one um she's
a skinny legend I feel like she's just gonna SNAP
if I press too hard but I'm not gonna be like squishing my glasses anyway. But
honestly I have like a really expensive pair of glasses that I thought I was
gonna wear for the rest of my life and I haven't won that once in like the past
three years ever since getting these and I just preferred these anyway. I try to
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with Drake they just love Drake. With one of my most basic tweets I've ever
tweeted so yeah I'll see you next week!!!! next week will probably be another book
cover tutorial or something? I don't know I don't- I'm not gonna make false
promises into empty air, but yes, Henrietta Potter signing out. I can't no
*gibberish*
*my leg smashes into the guitar* AAAAAAAAA
honest review
time you know made the real G I'm honest... babes if anyone knows where that
reference is from.... huh. It is so hot my pits are just like "Alexa, play Drip
by Cardi B ft. Migos"