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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle
Again with your pictures of anorexic girls your missing the point.
It is fine for people to approach me and say "God, isn't your sister skinny!" and yes they use the term skinny but if she was a 21 stone woman they might think it but keep it to themselves, because it's not a derogity comment. But So is calling someone skinny.
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If I'd have said skinny, you might have a point. Slinks took offence when I said the show wasn't JUST for STICK THIN women. Meaning that stick women would be as welcome as anyone else to take part, and the idea is that women of all shapes and sizes are as beautiful as the models we see on tv and in magazines from the fashion shows twice a year.
As a mother are you happy that we live in a society that holds up the ideal of female beauty as someone who has the body of a prepubescent boy? No breasts, no hips, no wobbly bits at all. God forbid that they aren't also five feet ten tall, with 'perfect' skin teeth etc.
I worry when my perfectly healthy godaughter and neice say they are on a diet because they think Paris Hilton, a woman who made a career out of her boyfriend put their porno film on the internet. I'm not happy. They are both two bright, pretty, clever girls who should have more ambition than to want to look like some celebrated airhead whore. Sadly not an isolated ambition for many girls, and apparently boys also are becoming victims to body fascism, with an increase of anorexia also amongst young men as well.