#not intending to shame anyone with that body type obv

[jelliebeanbitch]

hey why do we always draw caitlyn so that she looks skinny as fuck? like ridiculously skinny? like no internal organs skinny? yes i know she’s skinny in the show but that’s never stopped tumblr fanartists before!! i feel like it’s getting more and more exaggerated to the point of feeling weird and beauty-standard-y and unrealistic. we know that vi would kiss a caitlyn with a little bit (or a lot) of tummy !!!!

[fairlyoddfandomblog]

Hunk+Food

So everyone is calling Voltron fatphobic for the way they handled Hunk's development in s2 but I think that's a bit of a stretch. See, as someone who has struggled with weight my whole life and who is a foreigner I have a different take on the subject. Most countries outside the US and even outside the West, food is nothing to be ashamed of and that's primarily because it's a cultural thing. Food means family and good times and well we feast even in bad times. Corporate culture in America has created fast food and with it a terrible image of food shaming and food-lover shaming...but in most parts of the world outside of the West, a McDonald's restaurant is a fancy, sit-in restaurant that may be 3 stories tall with actual wait staff. So now we've established the importance of food to culture outside the US, sometimes so much so it's literally part of people's cultural identity. It's a part of growing up is passing down family recipies for generations and cooking gigantic meals and blending all the right stuff together, because food brings substance but also family, the things we need the most. So I always took Hunk's love for food as a cultural thing, as a Hunk loves food thing, not as a "Hunk loves food because he's fat" thing. Because Hunk was never shown as just the useless fat guy, and I don't think his love for food was shown in poor taste (no pun intended). I think he just appreciates food and it's one of the gateways to other cultures and other people and honestly I think that will be very useful in the future especially in voltron where there are so many different alien species. And one last thing. If they were trying to be fatphobic then Hunk wouldn't have any use outside of eating food all the time, he would be annoying and kind of useless and basically like every Zach Galafinakas character ever. But he's NOT like that at all. He's a wonderful engineer-an incredible asset to the team, very compassionate and probably the least annoying paladin...(Shiro constantly disappearing is very annoying tbh lol). And honestly, I think calling voltron fatphobic for showing a fat guy liking food is inherently fatphobic itself because again it's not like that's all he is, it's just a part of him. Fat people can like food, it's okay, erase the stigma, sure if it's all they are it's done in poor taste, but there's nothing wrong with a fat person liking food?? If you think of Voltron as a magical girl show and each paladin having their own thing, Hunk-he's the nice girl who likes to cook for her friends but also is a badass engineer who believes in justice, Pidge-the smart sassy one who's obvs rebellious, Lance-okay totally the fashion designer who's like a total pageant queen and has a flair for the dramatic, Keith-the main girl who has so many issues making her hella relatable oh and did we mention she's a long lost princess from another world? (I mean this is a magical girl show after all), Shiro-the main girls nice dorito man steed...or more like second in command but brings all the girls together (Shiro is sailor V). Basically, I think we have to stop looking at things in U.S. Centric ways and appreciate the diversity of the show, and that includes diversity of body types. It's okay to be fat and it's okay to like food and it's okay to be both of those. But is anyone making fun of Hunk for either of those things? No one other than the fandom as far as I can see. It's okay to critique the show, as all great works should be! But if someone has a differing opinion from you, you don't get to say they're wrong and send an angry mob at them. And that's what I keep seeing with this whole Hunk thing and the amount of people that say showing Hunk eat food is just a poke at him being fat is actually a fatphobic thing to say, so please stop saying that but acting like you're doing the fandom a service...because... Tdlr; it is okay to be fat and like food and be proud. It's okay.