Bridgerton Bashing: What The Hell Is A "Mixed-Weight Romance"?
Bridgerton's 'Polin' ship is being called into question
Is it just me, or is being a woman kinda hard?
It’s been a little over two weeks since the second half of the third season of Bridgerton was released (which is crazy because it’s possibly like two years before we get another season), and somehow, opinions about it are getting dumber by the minute.
First it was the questions asking Nicola Coughlan about how it feels to be representing “plus-sized” women on-screen, even though she isn’t plus-sized. At some point, they decided to nix the term “plus-sized” and exchange it with “a woman with your body type” to which Coughlan rightfully replied “a woman with perfect breasts?” — she ate that.
And just when I thought the issue was put to bed, I read this agitating, grating article from a Forbes writer who writes about weight bias asking if society was ready for a “mixed-weight” romance on-screen, when this really isn’t the question at all—it doesn’t matter if they’re ready, it’s here, get used to it!
And now that I mention it—this conversation is stupid, but it’s also not clever!
Did the country just fall into a coma and completely skip over the “mixed-weight” relationships when it was skinny women with bigger men? Is this a collective amnesia throughout the history of popular culture?
Marge and Homer Simpson from The Simpsons
Was society ready for a kind, capable, woman of colour to be married to an absolute balding doofus who downs donuts? Were they ready then? OR was it unfathomable that a woman wouldn’t care about a man’s weight, or that their entire town was jaundiced.
Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Aunt Viv (the original one, we don’t mess with that OTHER ONE in THIS house) was a high powered, beautiful woman, did anyone question their romance because Phil liked to have TWO servings of pudding? NO! He was heavy and so were his pockets!
Doug and Carrie Heffernan from King of Queens
Or how about Doug Heffernan, a big dummy, and lovable oaf. Was it ever a question of how his wife could be attracted to him, even when she almost died tryna fit him in these pants? NO.
Peter and Lois Griffin from Family Guy
And possibly the worst of them all, Peter and Lois Griffin. This woman had to deal with his dumb ass day in, and day out. Birth that football-head baby, and deal with an even dumber son, a dog who talks too much, and a daughter who wears GLASSES. Her life is hard enough, but no one asked if we were ready for their romantic relationship!
So why is it, when a young woman whose ample bosom brings boys from across the street to her yard, getting freaky in her carriage does the question about our reception of their relationship need to be asked? Answer—it doesn’t!!! Who cares if people don’t like it!!! God forbid a lady be stacked, and that’s a fact, letting it all hang out!
Anyway, even though Pride month is over and being gay is illegal again, let us remember when it wasn’t (over the weekend) and Countess Coughlan dropped this
Love that I caught the spelling error on this as soon as I sent it, so fun!
Penelope's sex scenes were some of the more realistic and woman-centric (and therefore sexier) of the series--that's the thing to write about (and celebrate!) tbh, not this mean spirited idiocy!!! I hope the internet writes that Forbes lady a lot of mail.