Blogpost 4: It's not fattism after all.

(c)whatthefrench

As we all know, The Wall-E movie showed a consumerism type of culture, and by consumerism which means and ever-increasing consumption of goods, materials, and services. So while I was looking for a great article, I saw an article consisting a bad message that the Wall-E movie showed which destroyed the image of fat people and I've seen and read articles about clearing the misconception they've seen. And I'm going to share to you what I've read and what I think about it.

Moving on, according to an article from Tim Shipman entitled "WALL-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups from telegraph.co.uk it says that many fat people were mad because of the fattism practice and fattism treatment which means discrimination against fat people was shown like how weak and useless fat people were in the film.

As the article says, "WALL-E has garnered rave reviews for its satire on consumer culture, in which future humans are depicted as a group of obese gluttons who never leave their padded floating arm chairs." Well, as the author says, it's not fattism that was shown in the film but the effect of consumerism, and I totally agreed with that because without the practice of consumerism people wouldn't be like that, the Earth wouldn't be like that and there wouldn't be a problem without the practice of consumerism.

Therefore, fattism wasn't shown after all, the effect of lazy logic and consumerism which people in the Axiom don't have to worry about job, about food, and about education because technology will take their responsibility were shown and by those effect, they caused the people to be obese which is the fault of mankind's practice.

(c)andrewsidea

Moving on, another article from Daniel Engber entitled "The new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse." from slate.com it says that it's the Buy N Large megacorporation's fault why this happened, the megacorporation made the people practice consumerism which destroyed the Earth and after they'll be sent to the space while cleaning the Earth which shows how selfish Buy N Large is. 

As the article says, "Once onboard, their self-destructive tendencies only get worse: After 700 years adrift, humans have grown too bloated to walk and too lazy to think." that was the plan of the Buy N Large not thinking about what would be the consequences, it's not fat people's fault because they were ignorant for 700 years, it was the first batch's fault because they have the idea and the chance to stop Buy N Large. In the last part of the movie, we saw how the current Captain amazed of what he saw about Earth since he was ignorant and doesn't even know that Earth existed.

In summation, it's not the fattism that was shown but the equality because after that the Captain made a move to let the overweight people to make a move to and go back to earth, the humanity came back, and fattism didn't matter there because in the last scene overweight people stood up as well as the Captain and everyone of them had their part to help.