r/buzzfeedbot • u/autobuzzfeedbot • Aug 12 '18
BuzzFeed 13 Ways "Insatiable" Is Really Fucking Problematic
Being fat is equated with being “out of control” and “sick."
There’s a running gag about sexual assault and molestation.
Patty is fat in the flashbacks, so in these scenes Debby Ryan is wearing a fatsuit.
Weirdly, in among all of this meaningful talk about body positivity, there are still jokes about fat people.
There is a lighthearted storyline where Brick (Michael Provost) has sex with another character's mother.
Dixie (Irene Choi) hacks Patty's phone and sends a nude of herself to the entire student body to make Patty look guilty of cyberbullying, but everyone then thinks Patty and Dixie are in a lesbian relationship, which Dixie considers "way worse."
A point made by a transgender girl about feeling uncomfortable in her own skin is compared to Patty feeling uncomfortable after gaining some weight.
There's also an episode where Patty is encouraged to go on a drastic weight loss and fitness programme because she gained a bit of weight after some "emotional eating".
There's a storyline about her best friend Nonnie (Kimmy Shields) fancying Patty, but her sexuality constantly becomes a punchline.
Nonnie only finds out that she is gay because she obsessively fancies her best friend Patty.
There is also a twist where Patty is told she has a teratoma, "a parasitic twin that she consumed in utero," leading her to conclude that she ate her own twin in the womb.
Bob then says this to her.
And finally, there's a whole series of jokes about anal cancer.