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This cartoon is ridiculous. The two aren't comparable.

It used to be that being "fat" or "heavy" was seen as a good thing, because it meant you ate well (usually was a status symbol because eating well meant you were rich). This was viewed as "healthy" and had nothing to do with self-image.

The overweight folk today that idolize the rail-thin models aren't doing so because they think they "look healthy", they try and emulate them because of self-image and popularity. It's based on wanting to look pretty or attractive, having nothing appearance-wise to do with health. They just have been told that skinny is hot, so therefore you need to be skinny to be attractive.

The cartoon lampoons our current situation that completely ignores the economic and social issues of the previous times in which the "roles" were reversed... people wanted to be bigger... but only because that meant healthier (not starving to death).