this Tuesday November 11th was announced on Third report on fatphobia By ODA, Observatory of audiovisual media diversity. This organization was founded similar to GLAAD in the United States and was initially expression strange and racialized The Spanish audiovisual field also deals with the presence of people with disabilities and, for some years, of fat people.
Since he started the latter; gradual increase of this expression. ODA aimed at promoting image Diverse and unconventional The latest report concludes that obesity rates in media, which contribute to eradicating prejudice and discrimination, have increased slightly compared to 2023. In the annual report at the time, the prevalence of fat people in movies was recorded as 8.33%, and 8.20% in series works.
Currently, the index of dissident groups is as follows: 9.19% for movies, 9.21% for seriesaccording to the harvest report. 2024 Developed in cooperation with. Ministry of Culture and Institute of Film Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), sponsored by Amazon Prime Video. This report analyzed the following steps: 102 movies and 79 seasons Spanish series 78 in progress.
Small growth does not mean big improvements in the world. strict aesthetic standards Since 1870 characters, only one character in total has been analyzed and continues to be popular in audiovisuals nationwide. 9% It has a subversive physicality, and this is due to the proliferation of other specific physicalities, namely bodies that are not fat but equally substandard.
In any case, this is a different picture from the reality of the Spanish nation, as recent health surveys show that: 62.3% of men Who are the Spaniards? 38% of women They are fat people. Comparing these numbers, fiction barely reaches 7%.
highly improvable expression
ODA also alerts us to possible improvements in this presentation that can be inferred based on tools such as: god’s test (The name comes from the main character of) pink flamingo). he 55.23% Of the fat characters analyzed, they do not have their own plot, are very typical and are especially focused on comedy.
In this type of fiction, 10% of the characters are portrayed as objects of ridicule, whereas in fantasy and science fiction, characters with this profile do not exist. It is important to note that there is a greater presence of older men with diverse bodies and some representation in terms of non-binary figures as well.
Specifically, there are three people in the serial, one of whom is Erica (Mar Isan) of red flagAtres Media Series. But the plot revolves around his body and the fatphobia he suffers from.
From ODA they also emphasize that there are no fat characters under the age of 13, and that diversity is rarely actively represented in young adult novels, as talking about children usually ridicules all characters with alternative physicality. Adolescence is at its limit normative normsthe same thing strangely happens when we talk about the role of women in historical fiction.
It happens then that when real women are represented, their weight is ignored. This happened in the movie red virginand with the series lawyer.
ODA’s third anti-fatphobia report was presented at a roundtable moderated by: Detective Elena As the communications director for the observatory. he was accompanied by activists and historians Tatiana Romeroactivist Magdalena Pineiro and the actresses Corea Castillo and Anna Marchesi (Both are involved in the play) fat, lame, stupid).
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