To hell w/ the fact that a little girl, who should be learning to love herself, is having her appearance put into question. It is OK to make the actress playing Juanita (Madison Lovato) the butt of the jokes, b/c it will be funny and make us aware of how real obesity is. It’s OK to shame her, you know, b/c childhood obesity is such an epidemic that we must throw out feelings. There is a little girl, a child, a human being, who is having to hear that the character she is playing is the butt of so many jokes. Remember, we are not just talking about a character here. There are soooo very many things that are wrong going on here, but let’s focus, please. Conversations about Juanita usually refer to her size. We are definitely supposed to know that Juanita is fat b/c she eats all the time and b/c her mother just “can’t say no”.Įven more disturbing and triggering to me is the dialogue that is used around her.
I can count on one hand the number of scenes where I haven’t seen Juanita w/ food or drink in her hand. Gabby becomes concerned, and begins to concoct ways to trick Juanita into exercising, like making her chase the car home. The next time we see her, Gabby is trying to cram her into a princess dress for a party, and is asking for a larger size, only to be told that they don’t make princess dresses for girls over seven (ha ha, get it, b/c she is too fat to be four!). The first time we see her, in last season’s finale, her face is covered in chocolate. There have been very few scenes involving the young girl portraying Juanita that have had nothing to do w/ her being fat. We are meant to believe that Juanita is only four, and there have been at least two story lines now around her weight and size, and what seems to be acceptable fat shaming. Juanita being fat is such an issue that we have yet to hear much about the other child that Gabby and Carlos have. I couldn’t tell you the younger one’s name, b/c we are always hearing about the older Solis girl, Juanita. Gabby and her husband, Carlos, have two girls. There is one thing though, new to this season, that has had me cringing at the pain from the vein in my forehead. Gabby’s selfishness, Bree’s creepy perfectionism, Lynette’s overbearingness are all meant to be so over the top that no one could possibly think these things are OK. They are almost caricatures of the traits they are meant to exploit. Some of the behavior of each of the principle characters is meant to be ironic.
#JUANITA SOLIS SERIES#
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