A petition on Change.org to cancel a brand new Netflix series has reached over 100,000 signatures.
The teen comedy-drama ‘Insatiable’ has had numerous complaints on Twitter following its trailer which was released last week.
It follows a character Patty or ‘fatty-Patty’ as she is known to her fellow students who gets bullied for being fat but all that changes when she comes back from a school break where she loses a substantial amount of weight and is deemed “attractive.”
Patty then looks at ways to get revenge on the bullies and has been described by Netflix as a “dark, twisted revenge comedy”.
London-based social activist Florence Given has set up a petition to cancel the programme before it arrives on the service in August.
She said that:
“We need to stop accepting these narratives, and start challenging them. That is what this is about.
“I don’t want young women experiencing the same thing I did as a young teenager if it can be helped, and it starts with saying that we just won’t accept these stories anymore, unless they’re being told with purpose and REAL FAT WOMEN!”
— debbyryan (@DebbyRyan) July 21, 2018
Patty, who is played by Debby Ryan, said that being apart of the show was a way to address and confront such serious issues through a form of satire.
“Satire is a way to poke fun at the hardest things, bring darkness into the light, and enter difficult conversations.”
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