Recently, Deadline announced that Amy Schumer is in negotiations to play the title character in the upcoming Sony Pictures film, Barbie. Because no good media announcement goes unpunished, trolls have already — you guessed it — body-shamed her.
“Amy Schumer being cast as Barbie is a self deprecating joke of hers right? It’s her making fun of herself? Wait. It’s not a joke? Wow,” a YouTuber wrote on Twitter.
Other Internet users have added their unsolicited opinions too:
And, because the cycle of trolls always ends in trolls defending their trolliness, we’ve come full circle to the conversation about why they have the right to fat shame:
But in the end, the whole conversation proves that the role of body-image in the media is what really needs a makeover:
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