why do friends think petite women aren’t allowed to exist? | #invincible #7deadlysins #cyberpunk  — Transcript

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1. 0:00Can petite women not exist in media?
2. 0:01Let's talk about depiction. Now, fans
3. 0:02often express concern about the way that
4. 0:04short and petite women are depicted in
5. 0:05media because certain physical
6. 0:06proportions or tropes often intersect
7. 0:08uncomfortably with how a child generally
8. 0:09looks. It's very reflective of a real
9. 0:11life frustration that a lot of petite
10. 0:12women face when looking for
11. 0:13representation in media because media
12. 0:15often blurs the line between authentic
13. 0:16representation of an adult woman. In the
14. 0:18hyperinfantilization of a character that
15. 0:20looks like a child but is technically an
16. 0:21adult just for the sake of audience
17. 0:23protection, characters like Elaine are
18. 0:24heavily criticized for being sexualized
19. 0:25and looking like a physical child
20. 0:27despite technically being a thousand
21. 0:28years old. Right? And so when we compare
22. 0:30that to characters that are in similar
23. 0:31situations like Monster Girl or Rebecca,
24. 0:33to whom also have narrative
25. 0:34justification into why they look younger
26. 0:36than they actually are and are also in
27. 0:37romantic relationships and or
28. 0:38sexualized, it's an objective fact they
29. 0:40don't get half the criticism that
30. 0:41characters like Elaine do. And though on
31. 0:42paper a lot of people think that it
32. 0:44comes from a level of hypocrisy, but
33. 0:45what a lot of people are forgetting is
34. 0:46that it isn't the depiction in a vacuum,
35. 0:47but instead the infantilization coupled
36. 0:49with the depiction. Alen's personality
37. 0:50often leans into the helpless, delicate
38. 0:52maiden trope and often needing
39. 0:53protection, which reinforces the idea
40. 0:54that her small size is inherently
41. 0:56connected to the fact that she's
42. 0:56fragile, which is what makes her come
43. 0:58across like a [ __ ] child. Above that,
44. 1:00characters like Rebecca completely break
45. 1:01away from any infantilization of her
46. 1:02character primarily from her utilization
47. 1:04of extreme outbur language as well as
48. 1:06weaponry. Monster Girl actively resents
49. 1:07the fact that she looks like a child,
50. 1:08and the narrative revolves around the
51. 1:10fact that she looks like a child, but is
52. 1:11still cognitively an adult, forcing the
53. 1:13audience to see her as an adult that's
54. 1:14navigating through a nightmare scenario
55. 1:15rather than a character that's designed
56. 1:16to look youthful for the sake of
57. 1:18audience fetishization. The narrator
58. 1:19brings the fact that these characters
59. 1:20are depicted as adults by depicting them
60. 1:21with independence and a lack of
61. 1:22infantilization. Nevertheless, petite
62. 1:24women definitely have the [ __ ] end of
63. 1:25the stick as far as representation. But
64. 1:26when people are critical of these kind
65. 1:27of characters, it's not because they're
66. 1:28exclusively petite, but instead, it's
67. 1:30coupled with infantilization that
68. 1:31creates the controversy in regards to
69. 1:32people's stigma of petite women depicted
70. 1:34in media.