would you agree that this obsession the govt. has with 'fighting obesity" has nothing to do with anyones health and more with trying to compete with other countries? (since they're always saying we're "the fattest country")
And completely evading the fact that a country like Japan probably envies us. A more technologically advanced civilization than us, that creams their kimonos over sumos, I bet would trade billions of their video games for more of our fat bitches.
I can agree with your statement though. It's reminiscent of Hitler's ideal of the Aryan race. But instead of a mass genocide on all that don't fit his criteria, our government is deciding to tax the shit out of us for not fitting their standard.
I completely agree with you. It's strange though, it really isn't the media that made me feel insecure as a teenager. I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, "hey...I'm pretty cute" and then being shot down by guys I liked because I was "too fat" or being called a fatty by endless guys that thought they were too good for anyone over a size 2. I'm totally not being feminist here considering women do this to themselves in a sense, however it was mostly males telling me I wasn't good enough for them that made me feel inadequate in my skin. Once I graduated high school I was able to truly take a long hard look at myself and spend years being able to look in the mirror and be OK with who I was. However seeing skinny models and ads and magazines and TV shows wasn't really the thing that made me feel inadequate. It was men. Maybe that's a personal issue and not a global one, but just sharing my experience.
It's because those "men" have been brainwashed. They shot you down in high school because the sexuality of the voluptuous woman has been pretty much buried when it comes to advertising over the last 60 years. When it comes to promoting sexuality in the media, the only girls that get promoted are the skinny ones. It makes men think that skinniness is a prerequisite to being attractive or beautiful. All men want a beautiful girl on their arm to feel better about themselves. Our self esteem is pretty much based around being able to score a 'hottie.' 9 times out of 10 if a guy is telling you that you're too fat, it's not because he isn't attracted to you. It's because he wants to impress people. He thinks if he can get a girl of "tv" attractiveness, he'll be able to impress his buddies. In his mind, people will think badly of him if his girlfriend takes the same size clothes as him. Society has molded the weakness in people's brains to buy just the skinny side of human attractiveness. It's a fairly recent phenomena too. Pre
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would you agree that this obsession the govt. has with 'fighting obesity" has nothing to do with anyones health and more with trying to compete with other countries?
(since they're always saying we're "the fattest country")
that's kinda what I think
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I can agree with your statement though. It's reminiscent of Hitler's ideal of the Aryan race. But instead of a mass genocide on all that don't fit his criteria, our government is deciding to tax the shit out of us for not fitting their standard.
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It's strange though, it really isn't the media that made me feel insecure as a teenager. I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, "hey...I'm pretty cute" and then being shot down by guys I liked because I was "too fat" or being called a fatty by endless guys that thought they were too good for anyone over a size 2.
I'm totally not being feminist here considering women do this to themselves in a sense, however it was mostly males telling me I wasn't good enough for them that made me feel inadequate in my skin.
Once I graduated high school I was able to truly take a long hard look at myself and spend years being able to look in the mirror and be OK with who I was. However seeing skinny models and ads and magazines and TV shows wasn't really the thing that made me feel inadequate. It was men. Maybe that's a personal issue and not a global one, but just sharing my experience.
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