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Wow, the show that so many fat women and body positivity activists said looked like a dumpster fire from the trailer actually turned out to be a real turd? I am so shocked that a show with a fat-suit could be so reductive.
The show’s creator, Lauren Gussis had attempted to explain why the initial criticisms were wrong and that the people who were protesting were protesting the trailer which is “a different piece of art than the show.” She asked them to give the show a chance and see everything within context. Well, people have and are reporting that the show does not live up the satirical promises that Gussis claimed were in the text.
Before getting into the feedback from reviewers lemme just say this: Gussis and others may have had the best of intentions in writing this series. They may have had their own body issues that came into play when creating this series. That is valid. However, just because you call something satire doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some responsibility about how it presents its message to the public.
Carrie Wittmer from Business Insider said this about the series:
It thinks it is making a point about society and beauty by having its characters aggressively make the opposite point. But it doesn’t work.
To get this confusing message across, “Insatiable” uses dated clichés. It pits all its female characters against each other, makes jokes about statutory rape and molestation, and has a cast full of thin women. Characters, both male and female, constantly call women things like “crazy,” “insane,” and “b—-,” and its main character at one point calls another woman “a resting anus face of a wife.”
But none of this leads to anything, or makes any poignant point.
Fun. When it comes to main character Patty’s relationship with her weight Wittmer says, “Patty’s history with her weight is pretty much erased. It seems to be used solely as a reminder that this show is inclusive because its main character used to be fat. […] This is not a show about someone who gets back at bullies; it is about a hot teenager who lusts after an adult man, and about a bunch of people who are horrible to each other.”
So it’s not even the Carrie 2: The Rage teen drama that it could have been. Although apparently there is quite a bit of murder?
Jenna Guillaume from Buzzfeed opens up her piece with a scene from the final episode that basically shows that even if you finish the whole show in the hopes that it will improve it does not. I won’t spoil the scene, in case, for some reason, someone wants to watch it, but I will put in Guillaume’s conclusion about the series:
“[…] I just felt sad. Sad that I’d sat through 12 episodes of the new Netflix drama, waiting for some moment of triumph that would supposedly redeem all the problematic and fatphobic messages that had come before. Sad that what I was being given instead was a weak throwaway line and a lazy visual metaphor that undid none of that damage, and rather reinforced the same tired old jokes about fat people’s toxic relationship to food. Sad that it’s 2018 and fat people are still treated as less than human, as something monstrous, as the villains in our own stories.”
Which is exactly what people have been fearful of from the beginning. Gussis may have wanted to start a conversation and that conversation has put her show as an example of things that we need to move away from.
Joe Berkowitz from Fast Company admitted that he sided with Gussis’ ‘don’t knock it till you watched it’ philosophy and felt empathic due to hearing about Gussis’ own weight struggle. However, “after bingeing four episodes that made me wish I could purge them from memory, it seems like the show’s conception of “revenge” is restricted mostly to “becoming a beauty queen.” Even if Patty wanted something other than to prove the extent of her hotness in a competitive setting, the show offers an irresponsible, dangerous depiction of her too-easy physical transformation, the seamless results of it, and their miraculous sustainability.”
According to Berkowitz the show mocks Patty for her weight constantly and everyone is hyper aggressive to fat people and “sometimes the school marching band follows Patty around with a tuba.”
But again: satire.
Berkowitz also brings up another really fucked-up aspect of the show with one of the show’s secondary characters Bob, who is Patty’s Lawyer and also has a side hustle of being a beauty pageant instructor. Bob is also “recently disgraced because the mother of one of his beauty pageant protégées has falsely accused him of touching her daughter’s ‘hoohoo,’ which is something she decided to do just on a whim.” Oh and the character’s wife is played by Alyssa Milano, who has been at the forefront of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
Insatiable.
Finally, Variety‘s Caroline Framke broke down that at its core the series is just a dated, shallow, and just not that good.
“Insatiable” tries extremely hard to throw edgy jokes at the wall, hoping that they will turn the show into a sharp satire of how our society shuns the weak — or something. But despite some late-breaking attempts to right the ship, neither the show’s punchlines nor its characters are sharp enough to transcend their clichéd foundations.
Sometimes things can look bad and surprise you like Blockers, but there are also times where things are exactly what they seem. Insatiable is one of those times.
(image: Netflix/Edited by Author)
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Wow, the show that so many fat women and body positivity activists said looked like a dumpster fire from the trailer actually turned out to be a real turd? I am so shocked that a show with a fat-suit could be so reductive.
The show’s creator, Lauren Gussis had attempted to explain why the initial criticisms were wrong and that the people who were protesting were protesting the trailer which is “a different piece of art than the show.” She asked them to give the show a chance and see everything within context. Well, people have and are reporting that the show does not live up the satirical promises that Gussis claimed were in the text.
Before getting into the feedback from reviewers lemme just say this: Gussis and others may have had the best of intentions in writing this series. They may have had their own body issues that came into play when creating this series. That is valid. However, just because you call something satire doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some responsibility about how it presents its message to the public.
Carrie Wittmer from Business Insider said this about the series:
It thinks it is making a point about society and beauty by having its characters aggressively make the opposite point. But it doesn’t work.
To get this confusing message across, “Insatiable” uses dated clichés. It pits all its female characters against each other, makes jokes about statutory rape and molestation, and has a cast full of thin women. Characters, both male and female, constantly call women things like “crazy,” “insane,” and “b—-,” and its main character at one point calls another woman “a resting anus face of a wife.”
But none of this leads to anything, or makes any poignant point.
Fun. When it comes to main character Patty’s relationship with her weight Wittmer says, “Patty’s history with her weight is pretty much erased. It seems to be used solely as a reminder that this show is inclusive because its main character used to be fat. […] This is not a show about someone who gets back at bullies; it is about a hot teenager who lusts after an adult man, and about a bunch of people who are horrible to each other.”
So it’s not even the Carrie 2: The Rage teen drama that it could have been. Although apparently there is quite a bit of murder?
Jenna Guillaume from Buzzfeed opens up her piece with a scene from the final episode that basically shows that even if you finish the whole show in the hopes that it will improve it does not. I won’t spoil the scene, in case, for some reason, someone wants to watch it, but I will put in Guillaume’s conclusion about the series:
“[…] I just felt sad. Sad that I’d sat through 12 episodes of the new Netflix drama, waiting for some moment of triumph that would supposedly redeem all the problematic and fatphobic messages that had come before. Sad that what I was being given instead was a weak throwaway line and a lazy visual metaphor that undid none of that damage, and rather reinforced the same tired old jokes about fat people’s toxic relationship to food. Sad that it’s 2018 and fat people are still treated as less than human, as something monstrous, as the villains in our own stories.”
Which is exactly what people have been fearful of from the beginning. Gussis may have wanted to start a conversation and that conversation has put her show as an example of things that we need to move away from.
Joe Berkowitz from Fast Company admitted that he sided with Gussis’ ‘don’t knock it till you watched it’ philosophy and felt empathic due to hearing about Gussis’ own weight struggle. However, “after bingeing four episodes that made me wish I could purge them from memory, it seems like the show’s conception of “revenge” is restricted mostly to “becoming a beauty queen.” Even if Patty wanted something other than to prove the extent of her hotness in a competitive setting, the show offers an irresponsible, dangerous depiction of her too-easy physical transformation, the seamless results of it, and their miraculous sustainability.”
According to Berkowitz the show mocks Patty for her weight constantly and everyone is hyper aggressive to fat people and “sometimes the school marching band follows Patty around with a tuba.”
But again: satire.
Berkowitz also brings up another really fucked-up aspect of the show with one of the show’s secondary characters Bob, who is Patty’s Lawyer and also has a side hustle of being a beauty pageant instructor. Bob is also “recently disgraced because the mother of one of his beauty pageant protégées has falsely accused him of touching her daughter’s ‘hoohoo,’ which is something she decided to do just on a whim.” Oh and the character’s wife is played by Alyssa Milano, who has been at the forefront of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
Insatiable.
Finally, Variety‘s Caroline Framke broke down that at its core the series is just a dated, shallow, and just not that good.
“Insatiable” tries extremely hard to throw edgy jokes at the wall, hoping that they will turn the show into a sharp satire of how our society shuns the weak — or something. But despite some late-breaking attempts to right the ship, neither the show’s punchlines nor its characters are sharp enough to transcend their clichéd foundations.
Sometimes things can look bad and surprise you like Blockers, but there are also times where things are exactly what they seem. Insatiable is one of those times.
(image: Netflix/Edited by Author)
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Golf is more than a game, it’s a business tool played by executives, an overwhelming majority of Fortune 500 CEOs, and almost every single U.S. president since the 1900s. But while it’s known as the playground for forging business deals and professional relationships, it’s also a notorious good ol’ boys club that has historically excluded African American men and women. However, Wendell Haskins, the founder of Original Tee Inc., and PGA of America’s former senior director of Diversity & Inclusion, Sports & Entertainment, is changing the game.
Haskins, like many African American boys, did not grow up playing golf. In fact, he wasn’t exposed to the sport until he was in his 20s when a friend invited him to a golfing event in New Mexico back in the ’90s. To prepare for the trip, he took lessons, practiced his stroke, and read about the rich history of the game. That’s when he discovered that a black dentist was responsible for creating the modernized wooden golf tee.
“The golf tee was invented and patented in 1899 by a Harvard dental school graduate and black man named George F. Grant,” Haskins told Black Enterprise. But Dr. Grant, who is also known for being the first African American professor at Harvard University, did not receive the recognition he deserved. Instead, “a white man was largely credited for the invention of the golf tee—a guy named William Lowell—but he didn’t have the original patent,” Haskins explained.
The eye-opening discovery inspired Haskins to carry Grant’s legacy into the 21st century. “After discovering that the original tee was patented by a black man…I wanted to create something that brings the black community together [and] celebrates our history in the game.” Thus, in 1999, he founded the Original Tee, a golf lifestyle brand that promotes inclusion by preserving the history of the game’s diverse pioneers and celebrates iconic golf enthusiasts. The ultimate goal of the company is to increase the presence of African Americans in golf and combat the game’s racist history. “We were purposefully excluded from the game of golf for a long period of time,” said Haskins. “It was very deliberate to keep black folks out of the game.” People of color were also excluded from country clubs, he added.
Original Tee, however, has been a vehicle to introduce and popularize the game with communities of color for the past two decades. “Since I’ve started the Original Tee, the game has become tremendously more popular, particularly with the sports and entertainment community and the business community,” he said. “People within the African American community playing golf have become more robust.”
Melvin Roane, Louis Kelly, Kevin Hall, Anthony Anderson, Wendell Haskins, Wyatt Worthington II, Christian Heavens (Photo Credit: Margot Jordan courtesy of OTGC)
To pay homage to past and present African Americans in golf, each year Haskins hosts the Original Tee Golf Classic (OTGC) presented by BMW. During the annual ceremony, which was held July 22 at The Wild Turkey Golf Club in Hamburg, New Jersey, dozens of black golfers spent a day on the greens in a charity tournament competing for a 20K purse supported by the likes of Anthony Spikes of Sapphire Hill Global, David Jones of CastleOak Securities, and Jeff Champ, the father of Cameron Champ, who recently made it to the PGA Tour. Some of the celebrity competitors included actors Malik Yoba and Hisham Tawfiq, veteran music label executive Kevin Liles, NBA President Danny Meiseles, and NY Knicks Herb Williams and John Starks. They competed with several black golf pros like Troy Mullins, Wyatt Worthington II, Kevin Hall, Christian Heavens, Louis Kelly, Miko Page, Earl Cooper (PGA), Anthony Stepney (PGA), and Randy Taylor (PGA).
The day ended with an awards dinner where Black-ish star Anthony Anderson was presented with the Original Tee Golf Classic’s “True Original Award.” Anderson, who’s been a member of OTGC since 2008, was honored for his career accomplishments, commitment to his community, and for being an ambassador for the game of golf.
“I didn’t grow up with a golf club nearby. Matter of fact, if you saw a dude with a golf club in my neighborhood, you went the other way,” said the Emmy-nominated actor and comedian while accepting his award. “I’m honored to be the honoree this year, but more importantly, I love what Wendell is doing in the community [by] merging the culture with the game of golf and helping minority players bring diversity to this game,” he told Black Enterprise after the ceremony. “The African American pros that we had today rarely get a chance, it any [at all], to play in front of a gallery that looks like them.”
Anthony Anderson, Earl Cooper, and children (Photo Credit: Margot Jordan courtesy of OTGC)
In addition to celebrating the history and contributions of African Americans in golf, OTGC raised funds for The Bridge Golf Foundation in Harlem, a nonprofit committed to using golf to improve the lives of young men of color in Harlem, New York.
“There are not enough children of color playing in the sport of golf; there is so much opportunity to shine a light on this amazing game,” said Randy Taylor, Teaching Professional at The Bridge Golf Foundation & Learning Center, in a statement. “This is my second year attending this tournament. This year, we brought 30 young men from the Bridge Golf Foundation in Harlem. We bring our students to the tournament to teach them the game of golf, meet relatable role models and expose them to a variety of opportunities that are available through the golf industry.”
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