Barbie Movie Director’s Fatphobia (Video Essay)

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’s research because there are Alcott’s scholars who dismiss Friedrich as a love interest for Jo because of fatphobia. Based on her diaries Louisa May Alcott seemed to have liked more stout and stacked men, and she even criticized the looks of the skinny men who inspired Laurie’s character