Stranger Things season 5 needs to fix the show's fat-shaming problem

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Stranger Things season 5 needs to fix the show's fat-shaming problem
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Hopper's weight loss shouldn't be a punchline.

. During the course of the conversation, he explains how a regime of intermittent fasting and pilates helped him lose 80 pounds in just eight months:

"I was about 270, and when we shot [season four] I was around 190". Harbour then adds,"I don’t think I’ll ever do that again"., define a character’s development arc is such a troubling message to put out there, one that can’t be excused by the get-out-of-jail-free card that"the '80s were just like that". Authenticity doesn’t, and shouldn’t, factor into fat-shaming, no matter how hard some try.

A minor fat character isn’t diverse by any stretch of the imagination, even more so when they’re the stereotypical outcast; apparently, fat kids can’t be cool or popular.But let’s delve even deeper, focusing on the women and AFAB characters of the show – there’s somehow even less body diversity there. The one time we did see a plus-size woman, she was treated as just a friend of Nancy’s, immaterial in the grand scheme of things.

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