http://menshealth.about.com/od/conditions/a/eating_disorder.htm
its not just men its women as well they are being sold an idea, generally by diet companies, (over $60 billion a year profit). but also the plastic surgeons, everyone who makes money from the idea of beauty.
everyone is being pushed to be physically beautiful, which is a very strange thing, you have cultural beauty, the polynesians they generally like bigger women, but even they are being changed or pushed to change how they appear.
the most beautiful woman i ever met, wasnt classically beautiful she wasnt even a good looker, but as soon as she smiled you fell in love with her, the most hideous woman i ever met was a so called "beauty", but she repulsed me, she had nothing in her but her physical form.
wrinkles, double chins, saggy boobs, are all according to some, are a sign of a moral laxness, and that justifies discrimination, justifies all the bullying that occurs
its only really last century that women are pushed to be this thin look like that, and more so from the 60's onwards, when twiggy, when the starvation chic took off. now seeing all the obesity panic and hysteria, its creating more unhealthily THIN, of both sexes.
i know people who have suffered from anorexia and bullimia, and its so hard to see anyone go from being full of life to become a walking skeleton.
http://rioiriri.blogspot.com/2008/02/fat-hating-boss-from-hell.html#links
i feel sorry for the sister of the fat hating boss. there is something so sick in this culture that forces women and men to mutilate themselves, when many studies show happiness is accepting yourself for being yourself.
i say if you cant accept yourself, how can you accept others. i know my flaws and my failures, but i accept that sometimes i cant do this or that, and so i accept others, being flawed and failing.
*** because we cant discriminate against sex, or race (or we shouldnt), who is there to hate, fat people in particular. becasue as some people say they wouldnt be fat if there wasnt something sick or wrong with them, who would choose it, therefore they are moral wrecks.
this is a good site about size acceptance
http://www.largesse.net/education.html
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