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Title: Compounding Prejudice
Review: While the conversations in this movie are thought-provoking, this film ultimately reenforces stereotypes. Lydia is portrayed as a compulsive, emotional over-eater, when study after study has shown that many fat people do not eat any more than average people, and often are persistent dieters. The film also comes down on the side that Lydia needs therapy - it portrays sizism as an issue that must be dealt with internally, rather than dismantling society's prejudices. If any other group of people facing discrimination were told to seek therapy and self-help, we would recognize that attitude alone as an extreme prejudice, much less the problem of failing to recognize the very real prejudice that leads to internalized oppression. This film portrays the leaders of the fat acceptance group as being extremists instead of being needed social reformers.
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