Rihanna got fat? And the press, as always, is at its worst

It is useless to deny it: when we see a star with a few extra pounds, we cannot help but notice it, especially if the aforementioned star has always made his image and body his trademark. What is not natural, however, is that the press, at any level and sector, intervene, without the slightest professional ethics, with a series of inglorious judgments and bordering on decency that place the emphasis exclusively on physicality.

Daughter of a male-dominated culture that still sees women as an object, although it tries to deny it through an increasingly widespread - and hypocritical - promotion of curvy beauty, the press - Italian and foreign - seem to continue not to accept feminine beauty that does not promote perfection. and adherence to specific canons. In short, the saying "preach well and scratch badly" always applies: if in fact, on the one hand we spend articles on the "importance of self-acceptance and on the" praise of curvy and normal women, on the other we are still at the point where if a woman gets fat, she won't be able to to forgive.

This time in the crosshairs of the body-shaming of the press has ended up the singer Rihanna, pop star among the most loved and followed on the planet, who in the last period seems to have shown a softer and rounder physique. Obviously her new size has become succulent news for many newspapers and websites - even quite authoritative ones - which did not limit themselves to giving the unmissable front page information, but also seasoned everything with an inglorious and macho look that relied exclusively on the accumulation of kilos and loss of his known physical form. "Major physical decline", "Look how she is reduced", "She goes around looking like this", "Lack of" affection? "" Physically in pieces " these are just some of the terms that journalists have used to describe the singer's physical change. Fortunately, in the midst of so much noise, there was a great mobilization of the singer's fans who defended their heroine via social media, praising her for her ability to be a normal woman and to show herself for what she is.

In short, "another bad figure of a certain press who seems to be unable to help but make an own goal. What one wonders is: would media and newspapers have done the same if it had been a man? what is the answer.

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