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Benny's avatar

LINDY I LOVE YOU. Here's a fact: I actually weigh 600 lbs! I do have some difficulty getting around, and a complicated relationship with my body (you know, like most humans do!). I also have things that would BLOW THESE DUDE'S MINDS, like an active love life, friends, hobbies. I'm smart and funny and talented. I was recently told by multiple medical professionals that my heart looks very healthy! Holy shit, you mean I'm not dying of superfatitis???! I have even left my house, recently seen the sun, AND I know what broccoli looks like! Amazing. Thank you so much for taking one for the team and watching this awful piece of shit movie so we didn't have to. You really are the best. <3

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Oh my God. Thank you so much for saving me from ever having to watch this.

I purposefully avoided reading about this movie because I estimated a 0% chance of a Hollywood film involving a fat suit generating any interesting or non-hurtful ideas about fat people. I obviously knew "the whale" was a cruel double entendre, but I didn't realize that the ENTIRE plot revolved around the protagonist's weight.

*No joke*, I genuinely thought the plot of this movie was about a literal whale and that the shots of Brendan Fraser staring into his monitor were him working at sea as a marine biologist. And he lives onboard a submarine/at a remote arctic research outpost and has a modern Moby Dick adventure while fat.

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