Shallow Hal Wants a Gal
I think that because Emme is shown in a different light than everyone else she gets the brunt of many jokes. She is out there showing off her body by modeling clothes, so she knows that no matter how hard she tries, this is something that isn’t going to change. Either you are big or you are small, and the industry that she is in, there is this idea of what a model should look like, skinny and beautiful. As hard as it is to say, society and Hollywood don’t want to see a larger person walking down the runway, it is just unnatural, and how could a large person be beautiful. Also, for a singer you are not there to see how she looks you are there to see how well she sings, but there is still this idea of because you are on screen you have to look a certain way. Especially in Hollywood there is this idea of what beauty is and what it takes to look good on the camera; there are few women and men that have broken this mold but it still does not change people’s ideas (although some have taken a different perspective to the idea of large). Personally, I think that no matter who says it and how they go about saying it there is always going
to be prejudice against larger people because there is an idea that if you are a certain weight at a certain height you could not be healthy, which is not true. Therefore no matter how many people say that being large is ok, there is society or Hollywood will make it a point to say that they are not healthy. Which in some cases is true, but there has to come a point where someone cannot change their whole life to fit the idea of perfect and the point of acceptance comes in. Acceptance will come from those who care about you and want to be by you, for the ones that do not accept how much you weigh then they won’t be around you. It is just like race, no matter how many laws are passed or how many movements there have been there are always going to be the people who still have prejudice against those who are different. Also, there are people out there who are shy about their bodies and want to hide them, obviously they are not going to speak out, however, this does not cause problems because the bottom line is you can’t change everyone, just like how a large person should not have to change their bodies just because someone/Hollywood said so. Take Emme’s case for example, she broke the mode on what a model can look like and made a name for herself, but no matter how popular she gets or how good she gets at modeling, she will always fall under the category of a “plus� size model and not just a model; some things cannot be change despite how much they should be changed. I don’t think there is a way for accounting for differences and oppression just the simple fact that people will come to accept it or they won’t.
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