I dislike creating labels for anything outside of "healthy" and "unhealthy".
To label these "normal" and to decry the use of "models" in advertising, etc., essentially is saying that women who are beautiful, have what might be considered "nice" breasts, whatever, are "not normal". That's stupid. Of COURSE all people are proportioned differently. That doesn't mean that just because you don't fit the "model" stereotype, there is anything wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with your tits, ass, etc. There is only something wrong if it's the result of unhealthy living you are doing nothing about.
They're saying it's normal to not be "perfect" (as they say). No shit, sherlock. Of course it's normal to not be "perfect". If it was normal to be "perfect", the word "perfect" wouldn't exist. "Perfect", in this case, being what they're decrying in models- whatever that is, this week.
"Healthy" vs. "unhealthy" is a simple matter of whether or not the body represents, literally, a healthy or unhealthy individual, regardless of the shape in which you find it.
I had an ex who used to get shit because she was thin. She wasn't skinny, just thin. She had a thin frame and high metabolism. She was perfectly healthy. She ate well, but kept herself in shape.
Tell me it's not fucked up that someone who has an unhealthy body gets to feel vindicated in giving her a nasty look or comment, because she is thin. The fat culture seems to have given clearly unhealthy and obese people some sort of "right" to give shit to anyone for being less than overweight. Not everyone with a thin physique is anorexic/bulimic.
Last edited by analog; 11-14-2007 at 02:10 PM..
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