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HEY WHILE I& #39;M MAD LET& #39;S TALK ABOUT THE OTHER THING BOTHERJNG ME THIS MORNING WHICH IS INEQUALITY IN THEATRE. THIS INCLUDES HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND #BROADWAY BITCHES.
NUMBER ONE: Fatshaming in theatre. Playwrights: I challenge you to create interesting, canonically fat leads whose personalities aren& #39;t "I& #39;m fat." Make more of them young people. I& #39;m sick and tired of playing old maids and old men. Make more Tracy Turnblad& #39;s.
Directors: I challenge you to cast fat actors in traditionally skinny roles because fuck you that& #39;s why. Give me chubby Juliet. Give me Big n Tall Danny Zuko. Don& #39;t discount plus-sized talent just because you& #39;ve got a mental image of a gyrating John Travolta in your brain.
Cast. Fat. People. In. Fat. Roles. Minimize the use of fats suits just because you want an excuse to not cast a fat person. Y& #39;all know the chick who sings "Plain Jane Fatass" in Bare: A Pop Opera? I haven& #39;t seen any versions of her actually played by a plus-sized person.
Musical theatre needs to shut the fuck up with the excuse that fat people don& #39;t dance well enough. I mean, I don& #39;t dance very well but that& #39;s cause I& #39;m a klutz not cause I& #39;m fat. Wanna know how I know? BECAUSE FAT DANCERS FUCKING EXIST and they work SO MUCH HARDER.
Fat dancers face such a stigma in the dance community because people think they& #39;ll never be good en ok ugh because they won& #39;t starve themselves to try and lose weight. But if you go through Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok you& #39;ll find so so so many beautiful plus-sized dancers.
Like @ChloeInCurve, a beautiful dancer who I just found a few weeks ago, there& #39;s so much hatred for these people who work three times as hard in order to prove themselves worthy in a community they belong in. (This is similar to the issue of POC dancers vs white dancers but 
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So stop forcing fat people to prove that they are worth supporting and showcasing just because you have some fuckled up standards of beauty. This thread got long so imma make a new one about oTHER bullshit in theatre.
