RE: The real reason people are weight-obsessed.
July 11, 2015 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 4:59 pm by Regina.)
The media is strongly to blame
We're shown these size 0 girls and these absolutely ripped adonis men and we are told "this is ideal". However, that is all we are told.
We are NOT told that it takes an extreme lifestyle to get like that. Teenagers (who are most vulnerable to these messages of "you are not good enough") don't learn that these people are payed to look like that, that they don't have real lives, and that they eat rabbit food and spend 6 days a week in the gym to look the way they look. If they're rich, they can also go under the knife. If there was more education that it takes such time, commitment and money to look like these celebrities and models, I think there would be a lot less body image issues in society. Coming to that realisation allows you to be so much more comfortable in your own body, because it allows you to feel normal.
We're shown these size 0 girls and these absolutely ripped adonis men and we are told "this is ideal". However, that is all we are told.
We are NOT told that it takes an extreme lifestyle to get like that. Teenagers (who are most vulnerable to these messages of "you are not good enough") don't learn that these people are payed to look like that, that they don't have real lives, and that they eat rabbit food and spend 6 days a week in the gym to look the way they look. If they're rich, they can also go under the knife. If there was more education that it takes such time, commitment and money to look like these celebrities and models, I think there would be a lot less body image issues in society. Coming to that realisation allows you to be so much more comfortable in your own body, because it allows you to feel normal.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
