Using a fat person as a punchline is cheap and lazy.
So why was everyone in the cinema audience laughing except me?Warning: contains spoilers!At 30 years of age I really should be used seeing how fat bodies are depicted in the media.
I should be used to fat bodies being the easy go-to for depicting sad, angry characters.
I should be used to the introduction of a fat body to provide some comedic relief.
But here I am, the morning after seeing Avengers: Endgame, and I am still shocked, angry and hurt.
I am an avid Marvel nerd and while the movie itself was brilliant in many ways, I had seriously conflicted emotions about the physical appearance of Thor.When we see Thor at the beginning of the film he is his svelte Asgardian god self on the outside but is clearly battling some pretty heavy stuff on the inside.
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