Seeking Fat Acceptance (Read 3395 times)

Then again, in NJ, at least in the summer and early fall, it is not hard to shop local at all,at least for produce.  It's called the Garden State for a reason.  And it still is.  Yes, up by Newark, and the airport and the oil refineries, it's pretty awful.  But, most other places, especially down south, there are farms and farms and farms.  And farmer's markets all over the place, and they actually grow the stuff there.

There are places in north Jersey, too.  More so were I am, in the western part of the state.  But yeah, it's pretty hard to not find fresh produce in NJ.  Good stuff.

As far as discrimination goes, I think it really does matter "why are people fat?"

 

For instance, it is generally considered wrong/illegal/immoral/etc. to discriminate against someone based on factors they can't control (race, sex, age, place of birth, physical diability, etc.)  However, you can discriminate based on factors someone can control, like personal appearance.  If I walk into a fancy restaurant in DC wearing nothing but a wife beater and a jock strap, they'll probably refuse to serve me because of my appearance.  I wouldn't really have a case against them because it is within my ability to change my personal apperance to conform to the restaurant's standards.  I can choose to walk around in a wife beater and a jock strap, but if I do, I can't stop people from treating me differently than they would were I dressed normal.

 

On a related note, I'm working on a theory.  I think global warming is a sham.  The temperatures are remaining constant, but since everyone's getting bigger, it just feels warmer.  Evidence will be forthcoming.

Begs a similar question as to why society puts value onto the self-starvation look thrust into our faces time and again...  How is THAT beautiful?  Why must beauty be a cadaver in a slinky skirt?  As for restaurants, they'd rather take their food intravenously, if at all.  And yet, society puts pressure on young girls and women to be like them.  Pretty sad that a 10 year-old spends a week in a hospital because she "wants to be a model".  Maybe the focus should be on health rather than "fatphobia" or "pin thin perfection".

oh yeah?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20055694-10391704.html

Galia Slayen stands with her life-size Barbie, which

would be 5'9", weigh 110 pounds, and have a BMI

associated with anorexia.

While eating disorders are not to be taken lightly, but you are looking at extreme cases and a much smaller percent of the population.  I have never seen ad campaigns telling girls that they have to be thin and promote eating disorders.  "Society" doesn't put pressure on girls to be thin, it's usually factors closer to the person suffering the disorder than some celebrity or tv show.  Y

Goodness, lots and lots and lots of ad campaigns and media images involve women who are very thin.  Some of these have the explicit message that "thin is what's in". And many others don't say that, but it is an add-on message to whatever the real message is.

I have no data on how many campaigns this is.

But I can turn my TV on and see these images roll by.

I personally know several women who have dieted by eating nothing but a tiny carton of yogurt or a bowl of cereal as a meal, 3x/day.  None have had success with this, for obvious reasons.

If they ate nothing but a tiny carton of yogurt 3x/day, they should lose weight.  What am I missing?  It is not obvious to me.

The only people who would lose weight long-term eating only yogurt or cereal are not losing weight by healthy means

Oh, to be sure.  I just thought you meant that during the crash diet, they were not loosing weight.

They do briefly flash on the screen "as part of a reduced calorie diet and regular exercise," but they don't really make any mention of what that reduced calorie diet is...though they do say that their yogurts are 100-110 calories, so the implication is that one could eat oodles of "lite" yogurt, nothing else, and still be eating a reduced calorie diet.  Looks like her hubby is the one who gets to eat the rest of the contents of the fridge.

Begs a similar question as to why society puts value onto the self-starvation look thrust into our faces time and again...  How is THAT beautiful?  Why must beauty be a cadaver in a slinky skirt?  As for restaurants, they'd rather take their food intravenously, if at all.  And yet, society puts pressure on young girls and women to be like them.  Pretty sad that a 10 year-old spends a week in a hospital because she "wants to be a model".  Maybe the focus should be on health rather than "fatphobia" or "pin thin perfection".

Recently there has been a debate this side of the pond about very thin models.  Someone claimed it was because most fashion designers are gay and don't really like women.  As proof of this they pointed out how they were now using young boys to model womens clothing.

I must admit I'd never considered this before and I'm amazed that women haven't objected to the use of boys.