P.S. Sad thing

[fflo]

"Huge" was cancelled today. Those kids'll always be in midsummer, their conflicts and the adults', too, ever unresolved.

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[paperkingdoms]

I think the updates, and general Huge fannishness on Fatshionista.com really hit that part hard -- how incredibly rare fat bodies on TV are. And how normalizing it is -- people talked about how skinny people on other shows seem after watching Huge. That suddenly seeing TV reflecting reality -- a wide diversity of bodies -- is radical.

And the real super honesty, and the diversity not just of bodies, but of the places everyone was with coping with their bodies, and the parts that aren't about bodies at all but just about being teenagers... it's a fabulous show. [And they're all so damn lovable.]

I'm reading Linda Bacon's book now. Trying to decide if it is a good choice of books to give to my mom, if I actually go through with giving such a book to my mom. It might be. I haven't come to a really firm decision. [Not that I expect it to change her, but she communicates a good bit by "book that I think you should read", and so it seems like a reasonable way to try to reach back to her.]

It's really sort of interesting to me that Savannah Dooley sort of found the whole fat movement as she was getting into this project, and that ABC brought it to her in the first place (although from what I hear about the book that's the source material, the book is pretty hideous stuff). Umm... interview here. It's kind of neat that thoughtful person + even barely useful source material is what got us to Huge. Like -- it didn't take some fundamentally radical person breaking her way into television to get this made. Not that it isn't revolutionary. I don't know that I'm articulating it well. Just... interesting.

I haven't really thought about the two side by side like that before. I think they were very different sort of challenges for me... probably, in part, because my version of queer is that optional-to-disclose sort. That might merit more pondering at some point.

[I don't know if you've seen Lesley & Marianne's podcast, but I love them together, and their Huge episodes are lots of fun.]