So, he comes into the screen lip syncing I guess to an older song and acting a fool. Then he starts in ridiculing his hair dresser. They always comment if your hair is longer than it normally is when you come in. C'mon now. Then he leads in to the London version of Comicon.
First he talks about a great and ingenious costume. A girl made herself into a firefox like the browser. Ok. That was cool. He gave her props. And because he was working a table he didn't feel the need to dress up. (At our comicon all of the people working were somehow representing their 'niche' as he calls it. So what I am already hearing is he didn't bother to try to come up with a costume at all.
He starts talking about he can't fault the effort the cosplayers put in but without a breath then says but if I had to.....yeah you know the controversy is coming. Now I will preface with apparently he came out and said this was all supposed to be satire an people should have seen that. No where in this video is there any note that this is not serious.
Then he says that he feels that cosplayers should dress their size. He says there are a lot of chubby characters in fandoms. He then goes into how you can be the Hulk, Jaba the Hut, Merida from Brave. He goes over a girl who is dressed up as Misty from Pokemon. He says she shouldn't have dressed like Misty he should have dressed like Togapi. Then he says a blind guy was walking around with a dog and should have dressed up as dare devil. Um he's blind. He can't dress up as anything unless someone helps him. He doesn't even know what dare devil looks like. HELLO!
As a group. Geeks, for the most part of history, have been teased and tormented because they like things others don't. He is claiming to be a part of this Geeky fandom based grouping and yet will ridicule any of them. Here is the deal. Just because someone is not a size 2 it in no way means they are not amazing people. It also in no way removes their beauty. Nor should it remove their confidence when representing everything that they love! I found a site while looking for cosplay for plus sized people...it is in spanish but.....http://overlicious.com.br/cosplay-plus-size-nos-eventos-geek/ has some great photos. Here are a few!
These women are gorgeous and sexy and cosplaying their heart out. Now my second issue with his 'stance'. If you can be this.....why would you ever want to be this..
Ya know what. I am a fat girl. I will dress however I am comfortable. I don't dress for you I dress for me. I prefer more modest clothing. That is just me but if that girl is confident and she wants to wear it out there that is her perogative. It doesn't mean she is looking for sex even if she says no and it doesn't make her disgusting. Maybe some people think that girl who has her bones showing and looks like she needs a burger is disgusting. You don't have to like every body type but you definitely do not have the right to demean anyone because you don't pefer it. Maybe they don't prefer you. I will tell you this A lot of people think my husband is pretty hot. I am not the only one who thinks so. And he loves me. And he married me. Because he loves me....and whatever package I come in is good for him.
People who are going to fat shame should be ashamed. Whether someone is thin, athletic, chubby or obese. It is not your right to judge them. Turn the tables. How would you feel if someone felt you didn't meet their norm and they criticized you. Just everyone get over it. There is enough hate in this world to go around. Why must we perpetuate this further. As they say in Frozen - Let it go.....Let it go.....
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