True. I'd just like something to make the point that being hot /=/ being kickass and vice versa.
This was one reason why it was so nice to see Miracle Laurie on Dollhouse. She wasn't stick-thin AND she got to be a kickass sleeper agent! She's beautiful, of course, but the nice thing about that is that you can show someone who's still considered to be beautiful despite not being stick-thin.
Too bad Laurie is the exception on TV these days. Melissa McCarthy has her own show now, after being the sidekick on Gilmore Girls and Samantha Who?, which is progress, but the show is kind of all about how heavy she and her guy are. The only other non-skinny women on TV tend to--again--play sidekicks/bestbuds, moms, or people who've had their sexuality completely stripped from them, so it doesn't matter that they're heavy, no one wants to have sex with them anyway. (Which shouldn't be the only reason a character exists, obviously, but I've simply noticed how sexually neutered characters are who have a certain "look" about them--or who lack a certain look.)
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This was one reason why it was so nice to see Miracle Laurie on Dollhouse. She wasn't stick-thin AND she got to be a kickass sleeper agent! She's beautiful, of course, but the nice thing about that is that you can show someone who's still considered to be beautiful despite not being stick-thin.
Too bad Laurie is the exception on TV these days. Melissa McCarthy has her own show now, after being the sidekick on Gilmore Girls and Samantha Who?, which is progress, but the show is kind of all about how heavy she and her guy are. The only other non-skinny women on TV tend to--again--play sidekicks/bestbuds, moms, or people who've had their sexuality completely stripped from them, so it doesn't matter that they're heavy, no one wants to have sex with them anyway. (Which shouldn't be the only reason a character exists, obviously, but I've simply noticed how sexually neutered characters are who have a certain "look" about them--or who lack a certain look.)