This piece speaks very near to my heart. Our society has made it extremely difficult for woman to be themselves in the world. It is a terrible thing when women look to mainstream culture for acceptance and how they should "look" from a perspective of their body. Clearly this woman of Willendorf had extremely large curves. This was a sign of being able to afford food. This is still true today in countries such as the Dominican Republic. I see it as a tragedy that the pressure of being thin has been placed on women the way it has. Very few women, including the one's seen in magazines, can naturally have the body seen in pictures. Women have had an unfair expectation place upon them from pop culture and really do not have the ability to meet it without starving themselves. It is no wonder depression, bulimia and anorexia rates have risen the way they have.
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I agree with your points, Jon. Yet another reason why I wish every American had to spend some time in a less industrialized culture.
jon---incredibly well stated. Youve made such a profound point.
i deffinetly agree with all the points you made.
First of all I love that you are a man discussing this. The difficulties with eating disorders and the media is always discussed with the views of women only taken into consideration. It is refreshing to have a male opinion speak out. Secondly I think it so ironic that in the midst of this whole unhealthy thin fetish that women across the country covet the country as a whole is having the worst obesity issues to date. Food for thought, quite literally almost.
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