by flagamuffin

Sorry for linking to a terrible publication (except when Cadell is the author!), but this caught me by surprise. They're absolutely right, esp:

Imagine if Melissa McCarthy had made so many public comments about food and McDonald's. It wouldn't be cute or funny, it would be schtick. Look at the fat woman, being human and hungry for something bad for her! How grotesquely humorous it is when fat people eat! When Jennifer Lawrence makes these comments, it's acceptable, because her body is still pleasing to our cultural expectation of voluptuous, slim-waisted, long-necked female beauty.

We're caught in this creepy trend towhere women need to weigh less than the celery they're eating to the extent that the girls who are poster-children for weight independence and food-love and so on aren't even remotely fat anymore. Maybe that's an even bigger problem than the one we had before. Jennifer Lawrence's weight, which would be considered perfectly normal or on the skinny side at any other time in history, is now a major talking point everywhere she goes. We've shifted the cultural norm so damn far that no one even knows what fat is anymore, or cares. Isn't this frightening?

Read the part where the author talks about Melissa McCarthy. Dead on.