ICYMI: An image of Emma Thompson in the upcoming adaptation of Matilda has touched of fresh controversy about how fat people are shown on screen. | OPINION by Brocklesnitch
Matilda.
Seeing us being mocked on screen reinforces our daily experiences and how we’re treated in the world. Just last week, I was accosted by a man who had come up behind me as I was about to enter my apartment building. He was well dressed and friendly looking, and I assumed I’d dropped something. He got me to lean in and look at his phone, and on it was written in big bold letters:A flash of heat, my stomach dropped. I didn’t read the rest, I just panicked.
The world’s reaction to my fatness has overwhelmingly been anger, hatred, disgust and dismissal. The incident the other morning may have been different in tone, but the thing that it has in common with the rest is that to all of these people, I am not a real person. I am just a body. Dehumanised on the streets, dehumanised in the sheets.I think seeing Emma Thompson in that fat suit is a reminder for a lot of people that for all the talk and our efforts, we haven’t really come that far.
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