Meanwhile, Rory is inexplicably sitting poolside in a pair of jean capris while also complaining about the heat, so the fact that she’s shaming anybody for their summer attire makes you want to punch her in the face. All of these characters are also only shown from the neck down, making the whole thing even more dehumanizing and leaving you to wonder how anybody on that set thought that this was a good idea. When a thin woman walks past them wearing a revealing bikini, this is apparently just as upsetting, with them saying she might as well be naked. The scenes - yes, scene s plural - find the girls exclaiming, “Belly alert!” and literally averting their eyes anytime the pool patrons they’ve lovingly dubbed “Butter Butt” and “Back Fat Pat” walk by. Jump to Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Episode 3, and a now older, but obviously not wiser, Lorelai and Rory sit by the community pool (who knew Stars Hollow even had one of those?) and shamelessly berate anybody who walks by and has a body they don’t like looking at. Furthermore, one of the show’s main motifs is the girls’ ability to eat as much junk food as they want, and we know that if the two leads weren’t thin, this habit would be framed as irresponsible and gluttonous rather than quirky and adorable. The whole bit is unfunny, lazy, and just plain gross, and shows the idea of “like mother, like daughter” in the most disappointing way. She rummages around and pulls out a pair of underwear that is clearly too large for her, then prattles on about how much she pities both the underwear’s rightful owner, and the underwear itself for having to be worn by such a woman. Her mother was just as culpable, with Lorelai having a whole bit later in the show when she comes home from a shopping trip with another woman’s bag. Noting the girl’s resemblance to a hippo and making sure to point out the “roll of fat around the bra strap” (I know), Rory really managed to outdo herself in terms of being a superficial jerk. Gilmore Girls’ most egregious moment of body shaming is undoubtedly in the Season 4 episode, appropriately named “Die, Jerk.” The episode revolves around Rory writing a scathing review of a ballet performance for the Yale Daily News, wherein she is more concerned with the ballerina’s figure than the caliber of the ballet itself (though she was sure to mention that the dancer carried herself with “the grace of a drunken dockworker”). So how did Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life manage to be even more offensive than the original show? When it was announced that the show would be getting a much-anticipated revival in 2016 called Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, it was thrilling to think that we would once again be reunited with the characters we love, and that our fictional friends would be brought out of the past and welcomed into a new, more inclusive era. The beloved cult classic is undeniably a product of its time, riddled with thin white people, homophobic comments, and just a general lack of awareness for any perspective other than that of its main characters. However, despite the small-town charm and hilarity that Gilmore Girls showed off in spades, the show is far from perfect. The fictional blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Connecticut town is home to a whole slew of quirky characters and one picturesque gazebo that made us all envy quaint life within the tight-knit community. Anyone who’s watched TV’s favorite mother-daughter love story Gilmore Girls has to admit that they’ve dreamed about living in Stars Hollow at least once.
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