and Hollywood's fat female phobia continues....

I am sorry but the OP took the time post essentially "Hey, there are no fat chicks in this movie so I am offended."

If you are a feminist, you are not coming across for equality between men and women. You are complaining that The Martian did not have any fat women in it.

You didn't com0plain that the movie did not have any handicapped, any main Hispanic characters, or that it didn't have any Albanian people. Everyone could come up with the movie should have more persons/ethnic group/disability.

Here is the reality of the situation for you. Lets say you have two women running to become the presidential candidate for a party. They both have strong political views but are very similar in their views. One Candidate is a semi attractive 115lb women and the other is an obese and unattractive (but smart) 259lb woman. Who wins the nomination?

The woman who is not overweight wins with everything else being equal. People are going to vote for her based on the fact she seems to be healthy and attractive and not so much a health risk.

If it is really important for you to see overweight women in movies this look up Melissa McCarthy and go watch all her movies. She is well over weight and gets a lot of work. Use your power of choice and only pay to see movies that fir your agenda.

Matt Damon looked noticeably skinnier in the later parts of the movie. They clearly made him lose muscle and it was supposed to show the effect of his diet.

I agree the women astronauts were skinnier than the men (well, one of them) but that's just a function of modern female actresses I think...
But idk, I wouldn't say someone like Jessica Chastain is necessarily much skinnier than Chiwetel Ejiofor. It's hard to compare men and women but I wouldn't say he's overweight, and I wouldn't call her underweight either.

probably said a thousand times already but astronauts need to be in perfect health, and on the space station, people basically need to train in every free second, otherwise their muscles vanish.

now for the people on earth, I really didn't care for the people on earth.

thank good i didn't have to stare at fat women on screen

I propose movies should come in sizes, like lingerie. Hollywood should make at least two versions of each movie: S-version (for skinny) and Plus or GB-version (for Gwynnie Bee).

And when released to disk the viewer should be able to adjust the weight of each character according to the viewer's taste.

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I have to agree, this is a dumb movie to get bent about.

For one, they don't send overweight people to space. Not only does every pound launched into orbit need to be meticulously accounted for, once up there, food is strictly rationed. It's a huge waste of resources to afford a single person thousands of extra calories a day.

And the exercise scene with Kate Mara? All astronauts exercise. They HAVE to, it is not just recreational. So even if they were a little porky when they left earth, you can guarantee they would be slim within a few months of the journey. Also, you actually burn more calories moving around in a weightless environment. They make it look easy but the human body is adapted to gravity by design.

Jessica Chastain looked very womanly. And Mackenzie Davis, whom I just fell in love with, would never be described as petite. As for womanly duty, you do remember that the entire mission was under the command of a female, right?

If anything, you could gripe that NASA doesn't have that many attractive females per capita. Many of the uncredited females caught my attention.

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Meanwhile, all four women were emaciated. And TWO scenes (in a movie that took place 99% on a space ship,) featured women on tread mills sweating their faces off...you know...just in case you forgot a woman's duty, dear viewer. We really have to drive the point home.