they apologize with hyper feminine outfits or the implication that the fat character is athletic or something. I look at a “fat” character and what i see is just a skinny character with weight added on, even though that’s not how that worksĪnd it’s just very clear to me that some artists want credit for “diversity” but don’t want to actually look at fat bodies.

Or how you can be fat and have small boobs/ass/thighs/hipsĪll fat people are also drawn to have looooong legs as if to apologize for the rest of the proportions A lot of people draw fat characters as like Vaguely Round stomach, throw on stretch marks (drawn in a way that stretch marks DO NOT work) and often body hair (for some reason? like i’m fat and have body hair but it seems like fat artwork is OBSESSED with adding it on as some sort of statement), pert boobs, maybe the glimmer of a double chin, big ol’ thighs cause they’re in vogue rn, and maybe round upper armsĪnd it’s like… zero acknowledgement of sag

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