So, if someone doesn't agree with me, that's okay but remain respectful. Thanks <3
So, I was just giving my sister a recap of the series, and I told her how Sophie first felt out of place with the perfect elves. She asked me to describe perfect, and I gave her the description given by Shannon, and she started crying because she was chubby and apparently not perfect. The standards of beauty trigger me a lot. Every elf is described as beautiful and skinny and blah blah. Does it ever occur to anyone that these comments might bring people down? My sister broke down in tears saying she wasn't perfect, just because she wasn't skinny. It pains my heart so much that there are apparently standards of "perfect" people now. The fact that elves also think that skinny is perfect is disgusting. Nothing hurts me more than knowing that there are readers out there who think they're not perfect by this fake standard that skinny is perfect. I really want this stupid standard to change because skinny, chubby, average- all of them are beautiful.
This is subtle- or not- body shaming. Some of us are already victims of ‘body shaming’ – it's the widespread phenomenon of receiving cruel feedback when our bodies don’t meet the unrealistic beauty standards of our time. We spend our time lost in self-critical thoughts, despising our body and comparing ourselves unfavourably to others. Why aren't the words- short, tall, thin, fat normalized as characteristics and not insults?
This is equivalent to hypocrisy, and I know that to most people, this is not a big deal and I do know that in the endgame Sophie will try to get rid of these issues - if she can't stop being self-centred (sorry, I had to--).
I really don't find it okay to define perfect physically.