I can see eating disorders as a feminist issue, but you have to realize that the media and the "thin ideal" are not the only reasons people develop these sorts of ideas. One of the positive risk factors for developing an eating disorder is being abused (usually sexually) as a child or young adolescent. Another is being in a dysfunctional household. Maybe the media provides the outlet, but the emotions that drive the compulsion to starve yourself originate elsewhere.
I'm about to e-mail you back. I really appreciate you sending me that message.
*has been gone for a few days and thus is behind in reading your posts and finds them strange since I have to read them out of chronological order...*
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HI VIV
What exactly was the argument saying that feminists have eating disorders, because I am obviously not seeing the connection? In my eyes, feminists are more likely to be fatties. Perhaps it's just because I'm far from being the feminist type and have turned myself into H's housewife, but I'm more under the impression that feminists would consciously press themselves against the societal inkling that women should be skinny, sultry, scantily-clothed sex objects. Thus they SHOULD get fat to rebel against the cock-driven media. Who cares what someone looks like because it's what inside that counts. I'd go on to blather about skinny brains, but that would sound like an insult to women.
Be fat and be merry!
I would make the worst feminist. I'm so sexist. I should develop an eating disorder.
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I'm about to e-mail you back. I really appreciate you sending me that message.
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HI VIV
What exactly was the argument saying that feminists have eating disorders, because I am obviously not seeing the connection? In my eyes, feminists are more likely to be fatties. Perhaps it's just because I'm far from being the feminist type and have turned myself into H's housewife, but I'm more under the impression that feminists would consciously press themselves against the societal inkling that women should be skinny, sultry, scantily-clothed sex objects. Thus they SHOULD get fat to rebel against the cock-driven media. Who cares what someone looks like because it's what inside that counts. I'd go on to blather about skinny brains, but that would sound like an insult to women.
Be fat and be merry!
I would make the worst feminist. I'm so sexist. I should develop an eating disorder.
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