![]() You’re not angry you’re just disappointed. ![]() There’s a certain kind of sadness that comes with watching a show you love – one like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which seems so progressive – and then being completely blindsided, as a body like yours is made into a punchline. This is true across the political spectrum liberals and right-wingers alike see fatties as fair game. When it comes to fatphobia, there’s still a vast majority of people that don’t even recognise it as valid. That’s not to say other forms of oppression don’t exist – of course they do, and the fight to end things like racism, sexism and homophobia is far from over – but there is at least a recognised notion in society that we should not subscribe to those views. Judging and mocking fat people is almost like the last widely acceptable form of prejudice. The lasting presence of fatphobia rears its ugly head in all kinds of ‘woke’ liberal spaces outside of just film and television. There’s one major problem with Nine-Nine’s otherwise remarkable record on inclusivity – it can’t stop being fatphobic. These include the racial profiling of Terry (Terry Crews) when he was frisked by a prejudiced police officer and didn’t have his badge, the homophobia and racism faced by Captain Holt (Andre Braugher) as a gay black man in the force, the problems with the American judicial system as experienced by Jake (Andy Samberg) when he was wrongly convicted, and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) coming out as bisexual to her traditional Latina family.Īs television shows go, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the good guys. The sitcom shatters stereotypes regularly, and has also dealt with a great number of issues extremely sensitively. Instead, the characters come together to form an odd but utterly lovable family, and being a good person always wins in the end. It might follow the goings-on of a police precinct, but doesn’t focus on the violence, crime or jaded attitudes we might come to expect from a cop show. Welcome to Fatness In Film, a monthly column analysing examples of fat representation and body diversity on screen.īrooklyn Nine-Nine is one of the ‘nicest’ shows on television. ![]()
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