Fatness Makes Me Fat Analysis

America is a society with a constantly rising number of obese or overweight citizens, but also a high rate of eating disorders. A special thanks for these eating disorders goes to the American ideal body type. Many Americans are so focused on reaching this ideal body size that they are criticizing the ones who can 't achieve this body type of being stick thin. This is more prevalent in women. But just because someone doesn 't conform to this body type doesn 't mean that they aren 't happy with who they are or how they look. Many people are still confident in their own skin despite all the efforts by society to seemingly punish those who are fat. Take Fat Amy from Pitch Perfect, for example. She is comfortable in her own skin. Amy even calls herself Fat Amy so "twig bitches" like Aubrey won 't do it behind her back(Pitch Perfect). She doesn 't let anyone tear her down or scrutinize her because of her size. Just …show more content…
First off, success must be defined. If fatness is a failure, then this must mean that being thin is a success. But success doesn 't have just one definition. In fact, it has endless definitions because if a survey were to be conducted and ask someone to define success not every answer would be exactly the same. Some people see success as being wealthy. Some see it as being thin. Others see success as having a stable family under one roof. Fatness could very well be someone 's definition of failure, but not everyone 's. In regards to Pitch Perfect, Fat Amy is labelled as the fat one of the acapella group but she is still successful. She helps the team to advance through the stages of the competition. If someone thinks fatness is a failure, then Fat Amy must fail in the best way possible. She is fat but succeeding in life so she 's really not failing. Maybe she could use some of that cardio that Aubrey talked about, but she is not