I’m not opposed to it, more diversity means more stories, but I don’t understand why people want to see themselves represented for their own sake (or for the sake of kids like them) or how it benefits them?
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Representation in the media is important because without representation, only one type of body/race (thin/white) is going to be shown to the public. When all people see are thin/white people, it makes all other people feel very different and marginalized. It makes people who don’t fit that mold feel like there is something wrong with them. It makes it seem like everyone else in the world is a specific way, and that there is something wrong with being anything else.
It plays into the horrible beauty standards that are accepted globally.
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