Fat gay men have spent many years, dating to at least the 1970s, if not earlier, using bears as a cultural symbol, identifying not just with their large hairiness but their cuddly appearance, an ...

There will be debate about a man of average weight playing a 600-pound person, discussions of fat-shaming, what a "healthy" weight looks like, and how useless (and racist) the body mass index is.

Fat suits allow thin people to create fictions about fat people’s lives for the benefit of other thin people. Then those same stories are used as a justification to discriminate against them.

Representations of fat people in cinema in 2022 were not great, from the misery porn of "The Whale" to "3000 Years of Longing" and its spectacle of fatness.

To me, the best thing that could come out of all the publicity surrounding ‘The Whale’ is the centering of the opinions of fat people on the film, writes Sara Stewart.

In "The Whale," Charlie is the good-hearted fat person who must quietly suffer and die. But don't worry — no matter how much people might hurt and abuse him, he'll always think the best of people.

Brendan Fraser's upcoming performance in The Whale should be avoided by both "fat people" and "skinny people" according to one movie critic who's opinion has sparked debate online.. Fans have been ...

“The Whale” director Darren Aronofosky has shed critics who say his critically acclaimed film promotes “fatphobia.” At the center of the controversy is a fat suit worn by star Brendan ...

Dove soap brand slammed Academy Award-winning movie "The Whale" for having an actor in a fat suit play the starring role of a morbidly obese man. Fox News Media; Fox News Media; ...

The tale of a whale who took in — and spit out — a sea kayaker In a video, a man captured the jaws of a humpback whale poke out of the water around his son's kayak, close around him, and ...