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Celeb News: HuffPost drags Jennifer Lawrence, calls her "body-shaming"
Member Since: 5/16/2012
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Originally posted by Konichiwa
I agree, and the obsessive bandwagoning of JLaw is repulsive. She's annoying and a bad actor.
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U can kill yourself for that last sentence.
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Member Since: 5/16/2012
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Originally posted by Minny
I will never understand why she is considered fat or even chubby. she looks normal. not fat, not skinny, just like a normal person. that being said I guess with this article the Jen backslash will start. I knew it would happen some day. they build them up only to tear them down.
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This. Everyone feels at some point they have to go against the grain to seem cool. Granted everyone isn't gonna like her but too call her horrible and overrated is a bit much...
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Member Since: 5/16/2012
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Originally posted by ladygagas
She's so annoying, I mean, we get it, you love food, now stfu.
Most of her fanbase are probably fat girls who spends their life on tumblr.
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Sorry not this sexy *****.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Good. I'm glad they're calling her out.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body. Every single one of those quotes might as well have just said, "Sorry I'm fat and you have to look at me, everyone." But it's all she's allowed to say, in the confines of our culture. If Melissa McCarthy had said, "If anybody even tries to whisper the word 'diet,' I'm like, 'You can go f- yourself," the response will most assuredly not be, "How brave! How strong! What a good role model!" The response will be, "What a bad example, encouraging people to be unhealthy! We have an obesity epidemic! Open your eyes, fat is not healthy, sexy, or acceptable! How very dare she!" Even the mild statements she has made about being comfortable with herself and her body are greeted with backlash from armchair internet physicians bleating about health and lifestyle choices.
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Jennifer is flawless. So what, she doesn't want to be another generic skinny Hollywood stick starlet. And the fact that people call her fat. Disgusting. She is a beautiful woman, who is so down to earth. Love ha.
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See, this is a problem. At the end of the dat you're shaming others people bodies too
And it's like making light from a serious issue like anorexia.
She can be as much 'quirky', 'down to earth' and 'relatable' as y'all claim but the fact her fans use quotes like that to shame others it's a no-no. And the article is right the response wouldn't be 'quirky', 'down to earth' and 'relatable' is she was a real plus-size actress. I'm sure Ms. Lawrence doesn't have bad intentions though and it's isn't her fault so many people chose to twist simple sentences like that to make her a totally classy and relatable tumblr idol .
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Member Since: 3/25/2011
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I'm so sick of overly sensitive people whining on the internet about nothing, leave it in 2013 this whole thing is ridiculous. I mean did she really have use the word privilege too?
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by Auraeolux
There is some truth to this article. They made Jennifer an unnecessary scapegoat though.
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Originally posted by Extra Espresso
The author gets some points right, but her intention of character assassination with Lawrence as the easy scapegoat is completely transparent.
You can almost feel the fury coming through the page as if she has some personal vendetta, contorting every which way to vilify Jen and cloud what she really means in those quotes.
I'll be the first to say her hype is unwarranted, but the intense, sudden, vitriolic cultural backlash she's getting right now is bizarre. This take-down included.
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The article does bring up some valid points, but it is very clearly meant to be malicious towards Jennifer and her comments. Furthermore, why does Jennifer have to be fat in order for her to make these comments about her own body? People in the entertainment industry have told her she needs to lose weight because she is not as skinny as the other Hollywood actresses. She said no because she's comfortable with the way she looks. It's as simple as that.
In regards to her comment about "looking like a person", it may have be in bad taste, but we all know exactly what she meant. Let's not play dumb just because some of you hate her for some god awful reason. She means that she would rather look like her natural self, than starve herself just to please the big men in Hollywood. The same can be said for anyone no matter they weight. They should be themselves as they are naturally, be it skinny, average, big or what have you. Her message is that you shouldn't change yourself just to fit into some bogus stereotype that the media and Hollywood forces on the public.
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Jennifer Lawrence is the human equivelant to Tumblr, and is frickin annoying.
she needs to STFU
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Member Since: 3/25/2011
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
Jennifer Lawrence is the human equivelant to Tumblr, and is frickin annoying.
she needs to STFU
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How is Jennifer Lawrence the human equivalent to Tumblr? The woman writing this article is.
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Member Since: 5/4/2012
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and smh @ Melissa Mc Carthy not being overweight.
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Member Since: 5/4/2012
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Originally posted by Eaten By Lions
How is Jennifer Lawrence the human equivalent to Tumblr? The woman writing this article is.
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The writer is in the exact same boat as her. Extreme left wing feminism at its finest.
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Member Since: 12/4/2008
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Originally posted by BadBitches
Check Twitter and IMBD. I couldn't believe that people had a problem with her weight after i watched the Hunger Games.
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That was more so about the character she was playing, because Katniss in the book was very thin.
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Member Since: 2/17/2010
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Originally posted by MikeFenty
The thing is she talk as if being skinny is a bad thing. When sometimes people are simply skinny because they are not because they starve or anything.
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********. She never said being skinny is wrong she said that she refused to get skinnier for roles, and in her opinion that was wrong.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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She isn't chubby
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Member Since: 2/17/2010
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Originally posted by BobBertran1992
She isn't chubby
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JLaw doesn't claim that she's chubby. She says that she was asked to go on a diet couple of times in her career (Including for the role of Katniss) in order to fit certain criteria. After that, she was kept getting asked about it and she said that she simply loves eating and doesn't want to cut off food just to lose weight and satisfy Hollywood.
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
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Originally posted by ethan
You can't please everybody.
Jennifer is not insecure about her body; she is not afraid to flaunt it in roles, she is not ashamed of it. Melissa McCarthy clearly is insecure. I think she's beautiful, but her comments about "I don't know why I'm not skinnier" make it obvious that she wishes she was. That's why there's a difference in the type of weight-related comments they make. Jennifer is happy the way she is.
I don't think she has an agenda with those comments, that's just who she is.
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What! Melissa McCarthy knows that she's a big woman and she's ok with it, but Hollywood keeps asking her the question, why you are fat? which is stupid, on the other hand there's Jennifer who is thin and tall but she keeps repeating the same thing over and over again, I love food, I don't diet or exercise and bashing skinnier people, then Hollywood makes her a role model for body image.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by Яeo.
********. She never said being skinny is wrong she said that she refused to get skinnier for roles, and in her opinion that was wrong.
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I'm sorry but can you explain "I'd rather look chubby on screen and like a person in real life."
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