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Originally Posted by katex
Must admit Garinda, my own son does buy these magazines and goes to the gym a few times in the week, as well as riding his bike to work, so willing to do a sort of U-turn on this opinion.
As for models and size zero .. nowt to do with eating disorders .. as you know full well, have a life time of experience with this .. 'tis a mental disorder .. blah, blah, blah.
As for filling up space in the Observer .. thought this week, there was plenty to read apart from the Baby/Honey comps .. are they just not treated as supplements .. ?
"Mirror, mirror on the wall". Suppose nothing wrong with loving yourself at the end of the day....  |
I am surprised you think that there is no link whatsoever between size zero/super models and eating disorders, especially when many models themselves admit to having eating disorders and there have even been deaths in the world of modeling due to pressure to be a certain weight/shape.
Whilst there can never be a direct link between modeling and eating disorders, it is WELL documented that many people with eating disorders these days are often relating themselves to people they see in the magasines, and Rhodes Farm has shown this in the number of TV programmes it has produced on children with eating disorders.
Whilst perception of ones self is obviously the key factor of an eating disorder, it cannot be said that the media has no influence on the way people feel they should look, the world of beauty and fashion is a huge industry, and that includes dieting and exercise. We're constantly reading that fat is bad!
As an example of this imagery, an advert was just on my telly for contacting 'fit girls' and showed lots of pretty girls in the GYM! Of course they weren't sweating and red in the face though
My main ideology is based on anti-feminism, yet I feel that many modern day feminists would agree that the girls should be free to do this... so I don't think there is really a divide here in regards to that.
I also don't think it's an eating disorder issue either, as I imagine there are few size zero girls who would enter such a competition, as bikinis usually involve curves in this context. Men don't tend to like the stick thin girls.
My main problem is still the fact that it isn't reading material in any sense, and therefore it shouldn't be in the newspaper. I just wanted to express my views on the topic of eating disorders and the media whilst it was brought up.
And my posts are looking more and more like graham jones' so I will shut up now