So many powerful and heartbreaking scenes in this episode!
First of all, the taped confessions! Gave me chills all over the place. The store scene with the creepy guy sexually harassing the woman in line, first scary and then turned in to a girl power moment. And something else. A man being actually afraid of women, it was, I can't really put a name in it, but it feelt good.
The last scene. As someone who has been overweight most her life, I so feel Alicia here. I think about a sentence, don't remember where I heard it but it was in a conversation about fatphobia, about how "normal" people always feel the need to tell overweight people they're overweight. Like, they think overweight people are blind, like overweight people haven't been bullied since childhood about their weight. They don't say it because they're worried about your health, they do it because you don't fit into society's norm and that makes them hate you. "Normal" people think being fat is a choice, that if you just control yourself you too can be normal, but it's more complicated than that. And like the unknown person's quote said: "No one wants to be fat, in a world that hates fat people." That phrase, was like a dagger in my heart, because that's when I realized that I was losing weight because I was scared of the people who hated me. Not because I wanted to be healthy, like I told myself and everyone else. No. It was because I wanted to be accepted for once in my life. And guess what, I lost the weight and I still hate myself! Because that's what society has taught us women, there's always something wrong with us.
First of all, the taped confessions! Gave me chills all over the place. The store scene with the creepy guy sexually harassing the woman in line, first scary and then turned in to a girl power moment. And something else. A man being actually afraid of women, it was, I can't really put a name in it, but it feelt good.
The last scene. As someone who has been overweight most her life, I so feel Alicia here. I think about a sentence, don't remember where I heard it but it was in a conversation about fatphobia, about how "normal" people always feel the need to tell overweight people they're overweight. Like, they think overweight people are blind, like overweight people haven't been bullied since childhood about their weight. They don't say it because they're worried about your health, they do it because you don't fit into society's norm and that makes them hate you. "Normal" people think being fat is a choice, that if you just control yourself you too can be normal, but it's more complicated than that. And like the unknown person's quote said: "No one wants to be fat, in a world that hates fat people." That phrase, was like a dagger in my heart, because that's when I realized that I was losing weight because I was scared of the people who hated me. Not because I wanted to be healthy, like I told myself and everyone else. No. It was because I wanted to be accepted for once in my life. And guess what, I lost the weight and I still hate myself! Because that's what society has taught us women, there's always something wrong with us.
