Arguing about Margot Robbie’s hotness is insane—and actually harmful

Hollywood bombshell Margot Robbie is now apparently “mid,” in accordance with Twitter trolls.

For these not versed in web converse, Urban Dictionary defines “mid” as somebody who “on a scale of 1-10 is like 4, 5, 6, or 7 based mostly on appears to be like” and is “similar to each different lady.”

“That is her with out make-up,” one Twitter user quipped of Robbie, posting a photograph. “Positively mid.”

That tweet has been considered greater than 62 million instances as of Monday afternoon.

“She is a tough 7,” another declared. “You used to discover a Margot Robbie in each Blockbuster Video in 1995.”

The digs at Robbie’s appears to be like come because the Australian intercourse image is ready to star within the “Barbie” film, out July 21, with some really implying she isn’t enticing sufficient to hold the function.

“Margot Robbie was solid in Barbie explicitly as a result of she isn’t fairly sufficient to alienate a feminine viewers,” a tweet with 2.6 million views reads. “The place are the massive Barbie doll t–s?”

Robbie is maybe the closest human equal to a wildly disproportionate, actually plastic caricature of what a lady ought to be — and anybody claiming in any other case is out of their thoughts, or trolling for clicks.

And the expectation that Robbie may by some means extra actually resemble a Barbie doll is absurd at greatest, and sexist at worst.

In truth, in accordance with evaluation by South Shore Eating Disorder Collaborative, a life-sized particular person with Barbie doll proportions can be 5’9” with a 39-inch bust, 33-inch hips and a measly 18-inch waist — to not point out a measurement 3 shoe.

No marvel many on Twitter got here to the actress’s protection.

“This new development on Twitter making an attempt to persuade us that Margot Robbie is mid is insane,” one user declared.

Another posited that the trolls degrading her appears to be like have been both “partially blind, not interested in ladies, or aliens.”

It goes with out saying that Margot Robbie — who has performed extremely provocative characters “The Wolf of Wall Road” and “The Legend of Tarzan”— is something however “mid.” 

However the truth that this even grew to become grounds for debate is an indication of some fairly poisonous magnificence requirements.

Degrading ladies and choosing aside their appearances on-line is ugly sufficient. Actually holding them as much as the requirements of plastic dolls with cartoonish proportions is even worse. 

This form of rhetoric being spewed by Twitter trolls hiding behind digital avatars and nameless pseudonyms sends a horrible message to ladies rising up within the digital age.

There’s already sufficient strain to look higher than humanly potential — whether or not which means photoshopping your waist to be smaller, spending hundreds on cosmetic surgery, or just making use of a filter to make your pores and skin look smoother — within the social media period.

Women’ shallowness is being completely destroyed.

In truth, two thirds of teen girls say that social media makes them really feel unhealthy about their look. And 6% of American teenagers say Instagram has been a supply of suicidal ideas.

It’s but one more reason that younger individuals ought to be saved off social media. Policymakers are weighing payments that may increase the minimal age to hitch platforms, on the behest of Surgeon Common Vivek Murthy who steered 16 to 18 is a extra affordable age to plug in.

“I, personally, based mostly on the info I’ve seen, consider that 13 is simply too early,” Murthy told CNN. “It’s actually necessary for us to be considerate about what’s going into how they consider their very own self-worth and their relationships, and the skewed and infrequently distorted surroundings of social media usually does a disservice to a lot of these kids.”

Nothing might be extra skewed and distorted than seeing a drop-dead attractive actress’s identify development on Twitter as a result of her look is being dragged via the mud.

It sends a message to younger women that they’ll by no means be sufficient — even when they seem like a real-life Barbie doll.

Policymakers and oldsters alike ought to be working to assist hold tweens away from this poisonous rhetoric to allow them to take pleasure in being children, fairly than hyper-fixate on their imperfections.