A HUGE part of Feminism Analysis #5

“Fat feminism is a form of feminism that argues overweight women are economically, educationally, socially and physically disadvantaged due to their weight”
It originated in the late 1960’s and has been fighting for their rights ever since this group emerged. There is a new show on television called Huge. Huge follows the lives of seven teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp, as they look beneath the surface to discover their true selves and the truth about each other. This television show advocates size acceptance and shows teenagers that it is okay to look the way you do.






Nikki Blonsky plays a character named Willamina. She is a sardonic and opinionated, she resents being sent to fat camp by her parents. She thinks that "fat camp" teaches campers to hate their bodies, and rather than hate her extra weight, she'd rather embrace it. (ABC) Viewers feel that she is a great role model for this show because she embraces what she has and doesn’t want to change because society doesn’t like the way she looks.
“The body is a powerful symbolic form, a surface on which the central rules, hierarchies and even metaphysical commitments of a culture are inscribed and thus reinforced” (Bordo 2240) People tend to judge people by the way this look and this show is trying to change that. They want people to look on the inside instead of always judging. “Female bodies become docile bodies- bodies whose forces and energies are habituated to external regulation, subjection, transformation, “improvement” (Bordo 2241) Women are always judged by both men and women so their weight is on their mind a lot. The fat feminism group and Huge are a good outlet for women to use when they are worried about what they look like. We need to remember that making ourselves happy and how we feel should be more important than what other people think.


Works Cited


"ABC Family - Huge - Official TV Show Site." ABC Family - Online TV, Videos, and Blogs. It's a New Kind of Family. Web. 09 Aug. 2010.


Bordo, Susan. “Unbearable Weight.” 2240-2253. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2010. Print.

Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.
W. Norton &, 2010. Print.