I have a lot of feelings about this and it’s kind of a unique perspective but point blank: As an overweight individual who has struggled with an eating disorder most of my life and continues to, and a fan of dark comedies, and comedy as a method of coping, I’m really excited to see this show.
The outrage comes from a 90 second clip of a 12 episode show. Basically, people saw Debby in a fat suit and lost their damn minds. Body positive “role models” are calling the show dangerous, fat phobic, and are upset that a fat actress wasn’t cast instead.
1. The story is not about a fat girl or making fun of fat girls. It’s a story about a girl who was fat with an eating disorder. She gets punched in the face and can’t eat for awhile, so she loses weight. When she gets back to school in the fall, people think she’s hot and begin to treat her better simply because in their eyes she looks better. The girl thinks it’s total bullshit that these people are treating her well now that she isn’t plus sized because she had value before she lost the weight, and vows to get revenge. I assume it becomes like a Mean Girls scenario where she embraces the popular girl trope in order to infiltrate the culture that tortured her so she can get payback.
2. Aside from the Idiot Internet of only “body positive” assholes, this hate movement is mostly made up of misogynistic twenty one pilots fans who have hated Debby Ryan for many years for dating the drummer, Josh Dun. Spoiler: They’re basically married. These vicious kids have been after her for years and once they saw the fat suit they finally had a true reason to try and take her down. I swear I’m not in this deep by choice lol, if you’re a fan of the band and Debby and follow the right accounts you just see it. Over and over and over.
3. The show’s creator wrote her own story as a dark satire. She was a suicidal teen with an eating disorder and she was full of anger and wanted revenge. Not unlike Mean Girls, it’s a cautionary tale about things like using revenge as a way to feel powerful, eating disorder awareness, body image, etc. This story is a valid one that has a right to be told and it can’t be told by a plus-sized actress because that erases the entire core point of Patty’s anger.
Example of a problematic fat suit: Shallow Hal, because instead of giving an opportunity to a plus-sized actress, they put Gwenyth in a fat suit. Debby is in a fat suit because you can’t make a person gain enough weight and lose enough weight safely in the amount of allotted shooting time to make either “fat” or “skinny” versions look believable in the satirical world you’re building. I mean give me a damn break.
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