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Something to ponder about: Is the media really pro-skinny when it comes to girls?

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Its always made out that the media is forcing girls to be skinny and causing self esteem issues for girls but if anything I think its the other way around

You know how when a celebrity puts on weight the headlines are 'X loves looking like a real Woman' or 'X is loving her new curves'

Now before you go on about how you would rather hook up with a girl with 'meat' than an anorexic model. You have to know there is a difference between simply being slim and being anorexic.

Its very rare hearing about the media promoting being slim but always promoting being curvy/fat. In general shouldnt the media be promoting to have a fit trim athletic body

Why is the media in general always attacking thin people and going on about how disgusting they are and how women should be curvy. They are doing just as much mental damage to skinnies as these supposed 'fat attacks' on curvy people which I dont think i have ever even seen, if so rarely.

If anything I hear the media pushing the curvy thing into peoples faces more saying how disgusting skinny people are and how they arent real women moreso than how the 'model industry' is supposedly forcing people to be skinny.

Heck I have never heard of the model industry on TV or in Magazines telling every fatty that they arent real women.

The fact is that models are only skinny because clothes look better on them and it makes people focus on the clothes than focusing on the boobs of the model.

What is it to be a 'real woman' anyways? Shouldnt a 'real womans' body achieved through eating a well balanced diet and exercising regularly and properly (not this, park your car further from the mall or use the stairs instead crap) NOT just starving yourself, or stuffing your face with junk for curves?

It must feel bad for women with naturally faster metabolisms who are constantly hearing how guys would rather a chick with curves and constantly hearing from the media that they arent 'real women'.
post #2 of 108
I've been pondering about this for ages.
post #3 of 108
I like skinny girls. But I have also seen two fat girls I would have banged (yeah literally two).
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It would be wrong to show plumpers. It doesn't matter if the majority of people these days are whales. Fat people are not healthy. It's not normal to be fat. We're not supposed to look heavy.
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Yeah, I never understood how showing a nation of unhealthy 160 lb women photographs of healthy 120 lb women causes girls to starve themselves to an unhealthy 80 lbs. Isn't showing images of 160 pound "real women" "glorifying" and "idealizing" this weight, and in turn leading girls towards unhealthy eating habits? Or will we just admit that what men and women both recognize as an attractive weight for a female has naught to do with the images the media shows us, and everything to do with biology? And additionally, that anorexia is a nervous disorder- nothing more, nothing less- and has naught to do with those "idealized" media images?
post #6 of 108
i believe it is the fashion industry that is pro skinny as in models media tends to just be pro sexy
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Originally Posted by tagutcow View Post
Yeah, I never understood how showing a nation of unhealthy 160 lb women photographs of healthy 120 lb women causes girls to starve themselves to an unhealthy 80 lbs.

Isn't showing images of 160 pound "real women" "glorifying" and "idealizing" this weight, and in turn leading girls towards unhealthy eating habits?
Both are unhealthy. Of course you just have to spend a few hours in your local mall to determine which of the two problems is more prevalent and should be a priority.
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I'm surprised this is a query.

What the media SAYS and what the media DOES are two very different things. It's a current fad to laud "curvy" girls like Beyonce or Queen Latifa or whatever, but if actually look around you'll note that every commercial, movie, magazine, billboard, etc. sells product by pushing the image of slim women - which is to say nothing of the world of high fashion.

The whole thing is a charade. The media is simply trying to sell self-esteem.
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Originally Posted by Étienne View Post
Both are unhealthy. Of course you just have to spend a few hours in your local mall to determine which of the two problems is more prevalent and should be a priority.

120lbs. is not unhealthy for average-height women.
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Originally Posted by Sherman90 View Post
I'm surprised this is a query.

What the media SAYS and what the media DOES are two very different things. It's a current fad to laud "curvy" girls like Beyonce or Queen Latifa or whatever, but if actually look around you'll note that every commercial, movie, magazine, billboard, etc. sells product by pushing the image of slim women - which is to say nothing of the world of high fashion.

The whole thing is a charade. The media is simply trying to sell self-esteem.

+1

The media should stop using "curvy" as a euphamism for fat. One can have boobs and hips and not be obese, overweight, or even at the top of their health weight range. On the flip side, they should also stop referring to overweight women as "real" with the implication that think women are not. Skinny women are just as real as bigger women.
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If the media is trying to force girls to be skinny, they are doing a piss poor job of it.
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Originally Posted by tagutcow View Post
Yeah, I never understood how showing a nation of unhealthy 160 lb women photographs of healthy 120 lb women causes girls to starve themselves to an unhealthy 80 lbs.

Isn't showing images of 160 pound "real women" "glorifying" and "idealizing" this weight, and in turn leading girls towards unhealthy eating habits?

Or will we just admit that what men and women both recognize as an attractive weight for a female has naught to do with the images the media shows us, and everything to do with biology? And additionally, that anorexia is a nervous disorder- nothing more, nothing less- and has naught to do with those "idealized" media images?

Except it doesn't, shit has been varying wildly across time and cultures. As for anorexia you're also wrong but i've never seen you be right on the forum so that's not surprising.
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Or will we just admit that what men and women both recognize as an attractive weight for a female has naught to do with the images the media shows us, and everything to do with biology?

+1000

For women it's all about waist to hip ratio. For men, shoulder to waist. I guarantee you if you went to South America and showed the tribes that have had little or no contact with Western civilization at all, pictures of big fatass rolly polly women, none of them are going to be going nuts over it.
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Originally Posted by javyn View Post
+1000

For women it's all about waist to hip ratio. For men, shoulder to waist. I guarantee you if you went to South America and showed the tribes that have had little or no contact with Western civilization at all, pictures of big fatass rolly polly women, none of them are going to be going nuts over it.



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Originally Posted by javyn View Post
+1000 For women it's all about waist to hip ratio. For men, shoulder to waist. I guarantee you if you went to South America and showed the tribes that have had little or no contact with Western civilization at all, pictures of big fatass rolly polly women, none of them are going to be going nuts over it.
So you think that some cliché black dude who likes white wominz with a lot of junk in the trunk and I (who likes them to be starving) have similar aesthetic taste when it comes to females and that all of this is determined by biology without cultural influences? That's stupid. You probably believe in alpha-males...
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