Quote: (02-09-2013 11:47 AM)Timoteo Wrote:
Hey...Melissa McCarthy knows she's fat, and her identity is largely wrapped up in being fat. She's an Academy Award nominee, and got nominated for a role in the kind of movie that simply doesn't get honored. I'm sure Rex Reed isn't the first person to comment on her weight in print (though he was particularly mean-spirited). Basically, she's bullet-proof. In fact, she'll always get work because Hollywood NEEDS people that look like her, largely to serve as comic relief. Remember, along with all the film work she gets, she's already the star of a sitcom, "Mike & Molly,"(has won and Emmy for her role, and was nominated twice) as half of a fat couple. That series is BASED on them being fat, in that I believe the backstory of the couple is they met at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting. She has no incentive to change. And of course, the whiteknighting enablers reinforce that.
I think we should refer to it as weightknighting.