I added some Barbie facts and history to the previous episode about Greta Gerwig’s fatphobic comments. Some of the criticism towards the 2019 Little Women, is the fact that a lot of the promotion of the film included several fatphobic comments from Gerwig regarding Friedrich’s character. Obviously this is not ethical or morally correct. There is a problem within Little Women researh, because there are Alcott’s scholars who dismiss Friedrich as a love interst for Jo because of fatphobia. Based on her diaries Louisa May Alcott seemed to have liked more stout and stacked men, and she even critices the looks of the skinny men who inspired Laurie’s character. So the statements from Gerwig and these scholars are in contradict with Alcott herself.
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