Gabby Sidibe is so adorable it hurts.
Let’s all just acknowledge this, because liars ain’t pretty.
I just… okay, this is me taking off angry feminist hat here. Just me, the person, who was a girl her age, and who still cringes when she catches herself in a mirror or a photograph: I really don’t think there’s a more despicable thing one can do as a cultural critic (note the bold and the highlight there) than write something disparaging about an actual person’s personal appearance. Oh, I get that you think you are analysing the phenomenon or whatever, or you’re commenting on the clothes, or you want to attack the director for giving her unflattering lighting, but I do not understand why any of these considerations transcend the fact that she is a person, and that you have disregarded her humanity in the service of some argument that ultimately doesn’t really matter.
That’s why this really gets to me. “Art” is more important than the person here, and it gets to me.
