Full disclosure, I haven’t seen Insatiable yet and even if I had, I wouldn’t be able to talk about it. Netflix has placed a review embargo until the show’s release next week.

The series may be the satire that Netflix believes that it is, but even so, its message is dangerous. Even if this show makes you laugh, or cringe, or reconsider your own relationship with your body, the premise of this show is flawed.

Why couldn’t Insatiable have told the story of a happy and empowered fat woman clapping back at her critics? She could even have been driven by violent motives, have been positively incandescent with rage for all I care. I’m fine with that. Fat women can be angry too. Fat women can want to hurt people, fat women can make mistakes, fat women can be terrible. (They can also be ecstatic and struggling and successful and in love and broken-hearted and sporty and stylish and shy and confident and I could go on, and on, and on.)

The key thing is that she be fat, and not have to lose weight in order to do, well, anything. Because fat women can do anything they want. And this fat woman won’t be watching Insatiable.

Insatiable streams on Netflix from August 8.

Sorry Netflix, but your response to the Insatiable backlash isn’t good enough