This is very interesting, because the less flattering ones got me thinking how, whenever large people are depicted in the media, nine times out of ten they are presented in direct relation to food. It's as if the fat body cannot be conceived of as doing anything other than eating (probably excessively). Or, in rare instances, crushing with its large weight. It's very unusual to see a woman of size (even moderate size) shown doing "stuff", and if she is shown alongside food, some kind of moral weight is attached to it. The large-woman-with-food is either a monstrous/gleeful excessive consumer, an excessive consumer desperately struggling with her monstrous urges, or a person who nurtures others, possibly a bit too much, as evidenced by her size. When I was growing up, magazines would have fat characters (eg Bessie Bunter), and you didn't just see that they were fat, you had to see them scoffing cream buns too.
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Date: 2006-09-25 12:35 am (UTC)It's quite odd when you think about it.