The tall, handsome, young, fit, blonde, sexy man she is stalking is married to his female equivalent. However, she barks orders at him and is demanding and cold to him. But he puts up with it because she's gorgeous.
Conversely, Sugarbaby has to be super sweet, accommodating, giving, complimentary, and self-sacrificing just to keep his attentions for 10 days. After which, he doesn't even intervene to keep his wife from beating her to the floor and kicking her at a disco. He just stands there and watches. Then, when his wife has beaten her up and left her on the floor, she hits him and grabs him to take him home. Presumably, they live "happily" ever after.
Sugarbaby goes back to her miserable life, hoping to entice another lover who is out of her league for a short, unfulfilling affair with a candy bar.
Predictably, the movie shows Sugarbaby stuffing her face with treats in her apartment each night. However, since 1985 we have learned lots of medical conditions can lead to weight gain (without eating 24/7 junk). Also, since 1985 science/medicine/naturopathy have offered helpful methods to reverse these conditions and cause weight loss. Sugarbaby could have had one of those conditions, but the writers had to show her eating junk because they made wrong assumptions about fat people. (BTW fat MEN are never scorned to the level of fat WOMEN.)
It isn't the fact Sugarbaby works at a mortuary that she gets no respect from the general public and can't find a significant relationship with a decent man. (Most ppl who mistreated her didn't even KNOW where she worked.) If she looked like Huber's wife, no one would care what her job was. They probably would have thought it was hot, in a twisted way.
Huber's job wasn't anything special either.
Sugarbaby, in her current unfortunate state, sets her sights too high for the norms of society in 1985. Yet, she ignored a bona fide offer of romance from a polite widowed subway official several years her senior who most likely had a high salary. She could have realized her romantic goal, not had to work anymore, and had the time to work on her weight and health. She could have even had children with him. So Sugarbaby was just as shallow as everyone else, but not about weight but rather about AGE.
Conversely, Sugarbaby has to be super sweet, accommodating, giving, complimentary, and self-sacrificing just to keep his attentions for 10 days. After which, he doesn't even intervene to keep his wife from beating her to the floor and kicking her at a disco. He just stands there and watches. Then, when his wife has beaten her up and left her on the floor, she hits him and grabs him to take him home. Presumably, they live "happily" ever after.
Sugarbaby goes back to her miserable life, hoping to entice another lover who is out of her league for a short, unfulfilling affair with a candy bar.
Predictably, the movie shows Sugarbaby stuffing her face with treats in her apartment each night. However, since 1985 we have learned lots of medical conditions can lead to weight gain (without eating 24/7 junk). Also, since 1985 science/medicine/naturopathy have offered helpful methods to reverse these conditions and cause weight loss. Sugarbaby could have had one of those conditions, but the writers had to show her eating junk because they made wrong assumptions about fat people. (BTW fat MEN are never scorned to the level of fat WOMEN.)
It isn't the fact Sugarbaby works at a mortuary that she gets no respect from the general public and can't find a significant relationship with a decent man. (Most ppl who mistreated her didn't even KNOW where she worked.) If she looked like Huber's wife, no one would care what her job was. They probably would have thought it was hot, in a twisted way.
Huber's job wasn't anything special either.
Sugarbaby, in her current unfortunate state, sets her sights too high for the norms of society in 1985. Yet, she ignored a bona fide offer of romance from a polite widowed subway official several years her senior who most likely had a high salary. She could have realized her romantic goal, not had to work anymore, and had the time to work on her weight and health. She could have even had children with him. So Sugarbaby was just as shallow as everyone else, but not about weight but rather about AGE.