Inside Out: How Pixar Fails At Body Positivity And, Well, Everything

Just something to know, and think about, since you didn't see the movie. Each character was actually based on a shape. Joy's shape is a star, which is why you often see her with her arms and legs extended, there is also a point where that becomes much more obvious in the movie. Saddness' shape is a teardrop, again much more obvious at a certain point. These shapes are representative of the feelings. Though I understand the point you are making, I just wanted to add there is more to their shapes than meets the eye.

There is just one problem with all this. The general "look" of the character of sadness in Inside Out is NOT based on some "theory of what sad people look like." As with many cartoon characters, the look is based DIRECTLY on the voice actor playing the part. And the voice actress, Phyllis Smith, just happens to be a plus-sized woman. So what you have essentially done is criticize not the animator's choice for what some abstractness of "sadness" looks like ... you are criticizing Ms Smith for being "fat." Would you honestly be willing to go up to Ms Smith and ask "Why are you fat, for frack's' sake?" You are body-shaming Ms. Smith. Is that really what you intended? It would seem that it is you who are stereotyping... I highly, highly recommend watching the movie, doing a little background research, and THEN making your comments from an informed position. Not just indulging in a personal rant based on assumptions. As a matter of fact, (spoiler alert) by the end of the movie, it is the Sadness character who ends up being the main heroine of the movie!

Oh, the joys of pointing at something angrily while being entirely ignorant.
Honestly, does anyone really believe this is about body image? Not everything in the world revolves around flipping political issues. Your one saving grace is that you used the word "frack," and that doesn't come close to saving you for being judgmental without actually knowing.

P.S. what's wrong with turtlenecks?

Uh, isn't part of the movie dedicated to Joy getting to know sadness and learning to accept her? From Wikipedia: "Realizing that Sadness was the one who caused both her teammates and her parents to console her, she comes to the realization that Sadness is to signal to others when Riley needs help."... "Joy emerges from the Abyss and finds Sadness, who has come to the conclusion that Riley is better off without her, and has flown off on a cloud. Using various tools from their journey, Joy launches herself towards Sadness and grabs her before flying towards Headquarters, where Anger and Disgust work together to get them inside. Everyone then looks to Joy to save the situation, but she steps back and lets Sadness take control. Riley, now in control of her emotions, gets off the bus before it leaves the station and returns home to her parents, where she breaks down in tears after admitting she misses her old life. As her parents comfort her, Joy and Sadness create a new core memory that fully restores Riley's personality. With Riley now adapting to life in a new city and Sadness finally treated as an equal by her fellow emotions, everyone works together to help lead Riley to a happy life."

So uh, you're whole article would have been debunked if you'd just... Watched the movie... Like, if you'd just watched the movie you would know how stupid you sound when you say "I can judge it without seeing it, I don't kneed to see the movie because I know all there is to know." An important part of the movie is learning how Sadness is an important character, and learning how to accept her for who she is. You would have known that if you'd watched it! Like, seriously? All you had to do was watch the movie!!

This article is pointless, offers nothing of substance and should be ignored by anyone on the fence about seeing this movie.

I haven’t read the article, but I’m pretty much 100% positive that Reading the article isn’t required to make this judgment.

(Full disclosure: I did read the article so I can definitely make a judgement on this article.)

I'm sure you thought, with this article, you'd come across as the bold feminist who had the nerve to take on the evil giant Pixar. Instead you came across as the uninformed, grammar failing, juvenile writing, body/child shaming, over-procreating moron who is just jabbering in ignorance just to hear herself jabber.

My main problem with this article is that you didn't see the movie. I think that if you had you would've understood that the point of the movie is that everyone needs to feel the full range of emotions in order to grow. Also, I feel that you would've objected if Joy was portrayed as a happy fat person (oh no, jolly fat people!). I think you should take a page from your own book and accept that people and emotions come in all shapes and sizes.

Spare us the hypersensitivity line of bovine feces.

Never never never never never write about a movie unless you have seen it. Your suppositions about the role of Sadness and the way she is portrayed have nothing to do with the film, which makes it clear that Sadness is not just essential for growing up but it is also the basis for empathy, a quality this essay could benefit from. If all of the characters were wasp-waisted princesses, would that make you feel better? Did you look at the human characters in the film, who have realistically diverse body types? Or the other emotions?

So let me get this straight: This woman will bitch and moan about a female character portraying sadness portrayed as stocky and wide...but has no fucking problem with anger being short and male portraying a napoleon like complex?

This is, quite literally, the article form of that one bitch who made a facebook/tumblr/twitter post involving her taking a picture looking disgusted and the caption said "Your face when his height starts with 5'", and then immediately getting pissed off and "offended" when a person responded "Your face when her weight begins with 200".

You people will complain about anything.