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Step 1: Take off the shoes.

Step 2: Give them to your insecure sorcerer.

Step 3: Plot solved.

I watched Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves last night and, honestly, I don't remember quite liking a movie so much. The animation is pleasing to the eye, the characters are believable and lovely and there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. This film had the bad luck of a marketing fuck-up, where is was labelled as fat-shaming. Whoever holds that opinion today obviously has not watched the film or is missing half a brain. The main character, Snow White AKA Red Shoes, is anything but insecure about her appearance. She likes who she is. She fondly says she takes after her dad (who is as round as her, and obviously loves her dearly). She knows and uses the perks being big gives her, such as the sheer muscle that comes with lugging those pounds along. When she gets stuck in her beautiful slender form, she's uneasy about it because that isn't who she is.

Now there are many things I love about this movie, like the sheer broship among the seven dwarves, who see that Merlin probably has the biggest chance with Red Shoes and quietly, almost off-screen, start supporting them and putting them alone together as often as they can. But the sheer amount of negative reviews, where people say "I wouldn't let my kids watch this" drives me to say this. Being obese is not beautiful, if by the sheer quality of not being healthy. Fat people do get treated badly by the world and beautiful slender girls do have guys at their feet. Those are the facts, no fat-shaming rhetoric will change them (in the foreseeable future). However, this film doesn't stop at portraying this fact of society. It starts and ends by saying: "There is so much more to a woman than being fat or slender. She can be strong (like when Snow White lugs giant boulders and saves Merlin's life). She can be brave (like when Snow White trades herself for the captured Arthur and Merlin). She can be sweet and understanding (like when she gives Merlin a character arc many would envy). Fat women can be loved."

And I think that is the message the children need to hear. Not that being obese is okay and no one's allowed to tell you otherwise. it's that being obese doesn't define who you are and it doesn't make you unworthy of love. Snow White is the female protagonist I have been missing for ages. She is not sexualised (beside her silhouette in the Red Shoes form), she is proactive and moves the plot forward herself and she gives affection but doesn't let it be wrung out of her (such as when she hugs Merlin out of joy and all the other dwarves want a hug, too). She is the first woman who I would call, in recent cinematography, a real role model. The first princess I would like to meet and be like.

Watch Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarved. It's a great film.

Description

Step 1: Take off the shoes.

Step 2: Give them to your insecure sorcerer.

Step 3: Plot solved.

I watched Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves last night and, honestly, I don't remember quite liking a movie so much. The animation is pleasing to the eye, the characters are believable and lovely and there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. This film had the bad luck of a marketing fuck-up, where is was labelled as fat-shaming. Whoever holds that opinion today obviously has not watched the film or is missing half a brain. The main character, Snow White AKA Red Shoes, is anything but insecure about her appearance. She likes who she is. She fondly says she takes after her dad (who is as round as her, and obviously loves her dearly). She knows and uses the perks being big gives her, such as the sheer muscle that comes with lugging those pounds along. When she gets stuck in her beautiful slender form, she's uneasy about it because that isn't who she is.

Now there are many things I love about this movie, like the sheer broship among the seven dwarves, who see that Merlin probably has the biggest chance with Red Shoes and quietly, almost off-screen, start supporting them and putting them alone together as often as they can. But the sheer amount of negative reviews, where people say "I wouldn't let my kids watch this" drives me to say this. Being obese is not beautiful, if by the sheer quality of not being healthy. Fat people do get treated badly by the world and beautiful slender girls do have guys at their feet. Those are the facts, no fat-shaming rhetoric will change them (in the foreseeable future). However, this film doesn't stop at portraying this fact of society. It starts and ends by saying: "There is so much more to a woman than being fat or slender. She can be strong (like when Snow White lugs giant boulders and saves Merlin's life). She can be brave (like when Snow White trades herself for the captured Arthur and Merlin). She can be sweet and understanding (like when she gives Merlin a character arc many would envy). Fat women can be loved."

And I think that is the message the children need to hear. Not that being obese is okay and no one's allowed to tell you otherwise. it's that being obese doesn't define who you are and it doesn't make you unworthy of love. Snow White is the female protagonist I have been missing for ages. She is not sexualised (beside her silhouette in the Red Shoes form), she is proactive and moves the plot forward herself and she gives affection but doesn't let it be wrung out of her (such as when she hugs Merlin out of joy and all the other dwarves want a hug, too). She is the first woman who I would call, in recent cinematography, a real role model. The first princess I would like to meet and be like.

Watch Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarved. It's a great film.