CMI Enterprises Blog Why Insatiable Is So Problematic For Women

Even before it aired Netflix's show Insatiable had to face the wrath of the Internet. After the trailer dropped people were immediately put off by the vibe of the show, and the premise is even worse. It's stunningly tone-deaf attempt to create an edgy comedy and it fails on all fronts. The show follows a teen girl named Patty Bladell. At the beginning of the show, she is an overweight teen that is bullied constantly about her weight. She gets into a fight and her jaw is wired shut for a few months, during which time she can only have a liquid diet. Then she amazingly loses all the excess weight and shows up at school the next year looking "hot". She decides to get revenge on those who bullied her by entering beauty pageants, presumably to prove that she is now indeed beautiful so now she has worth. The show is so wrong, on so many levels, that it's kind of shocking Netflix even went ahead with their plans to release it. Before the show aired more than 100,000 fans signed a petition to Netflix asking them to scrap the show. Bafflingly Netflix went ahead with the show and [...]The post Why Insatiable Is So Problematic For Women appeared first on Hips & Curves.