“It felt as if my anger and passion were taken as a joke because it’s simply an expected part of my personality to be ‘passionate’ like Sofia Vergara [and] ‘angry’ like Michelle Rodriguez in The Fast and the Furious . . . Why can’t I just be a human who happens to be curvy and is passionate, sometimes angry, occasionally loud, and rarely sexy?” The answer is because stereotypes dissolve any requirement to take certain people seriously or to empathize with them. As Richard Dyer said, when it comes to the matter of representation, the way people treat us depends on how they see us. Images
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