tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post6501225360568169712..comments2024-03-27T17:40:18.022-07:00Comments on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: The Top 10 Coming Out of the Closet scenes & a complaintBlackTsunamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02349560427762283170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-11543184222216148632018-06-20T13:32:11.410-07:002018-06-20T13:32:11.410-07:00. I'd make the general point that Hollywood t.... I'd make the general point that Hollywood tends to hire actors - almost always with women, most of the time with men - who fit conventional standards of beauty for the leads in their films and TV shows. Even someone who became a star while defying these standards around weight, like Melissa McCarthy, wound up going on a crash diet, possibly in response to cruel reviews of her films calling her ugly and suggesting she was going to have a heart attack the next day. Lena Dunham is hardly obese, but I've seen Facebook threads responding to her nude scenes showing off her very moderately chubby body as though she weighed 350 pounds (probably from guys who aren't exactly Matt Damon or Ryan Gosling lookalikes.) steeveehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237556280482897025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-88432614056049328442018-06-18T05:47:51.420-07:002018-06-18T05:47:51.420-07:00I was struck by the fact that so many of the comin...I was struck by the fact that so many of the coming out events were traumatic, emotional, sad, or met with denial, rejection or violence. I hope this will be less prevalent as we become more and more visible. I remember Lance Loud in American Family, 1970-ish. --- Probably the first gay person on TV.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04058312079036935995noreply@blogger.com