Body Shaming Women
6 Tropes
3 Movies
1 TV Show
Table Of ContentsExplanation of Conservative Trope
Men are much less likely to be body shamed on screen than women which mirrors real life. Hollywood contributes to this culture with an in balance.
Conservative Trope Examples
- Tank (Dane Cook) fat shames a woman at the bar by cruelly comparing her to NFL linebackers and wondering if her new infant was "delicious" because it looks like she "downed the whole thing."
- Hugh Grant, playing the Prime Minister of the UK, shows interest in his secretary Natalie, and there are many interactions with his staff about whether she is overweight that were played for laughs such as her being "the chubby girl". In a later scene, a frustrated Hugh Grant asks aloud to himself, “Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?” His secretary Natalie happens to walk in at just that moment with tea and biscuits, and it's funny because they have been hinting at a romance between the two. He eventually decides to fire her because she was too much of a distraction to him, and -- later realizing that was a mistake -- seeks her out at her home. In their final scene together he quips, "God you weigh a lot!", and she responds coyly "Oh, shut your face" and kisses him.
- Lara (Lisa Barbuscia) tells Daniel (Hugh Grant) "I thought you said she was thin" right in front of Bridget's (Renée Zellweger) face.
- Bridget's (Renée Zellweger) female friend expressed shock that Mark (Colin Firth) doesn't want her to be "thinner," "cleverer," or have "slightly bigger breasts and a slightly smaller nose" after Bridget tells her friends that Mark privately confided to her that she was perfect just the way she was.
- Lisa (Lark Voorhies) asks a teenage girl who called a teen crisis hotline how much she weighs and proceeds to gratuitously shame her for being fat, going so far as telling the teen that "maybe it's not in your mind." She continues to pile it on, telling her to "never wear white. You'd look like Shamu at a wedding" before encouraging her to join "overeaters anonymous."
- Lisa (Lark Voorhies) asks a teenage girl who called a teen crisis hotline how much she weighs and proceeds to gratuitously shame her for being fat, going so far as telling the teen that "maybe it's not in your mind." She continues to pile it on, telling her to "never wear white. You'd look like Shamu at a wedding" before encouraging her to join "overeaters anonymous."