Ever wonder how many times per week you obsess about your appearance?
Sad but true: women worry about their bodies 252 times a week.
“Over a seven day period, the women aged 35 to 69 had to use the clicker every time they worried about their face, body, or appearance in general… On average, the women surveyed had negative thoughts 36 times a day.”
By the way readers, sorry for the hiatus. This blogger has 2 other jobs and goes to school!
This is a joke. Attractive sells. Companies want to sell things. No ones going to buy anything from a repulsive individual. It is an American ideal to be “fat and happy”but realistically, being over weight is unnatural. How often do you see obesity among animals in the wild? You don’t because it is a defect. A defect in the will power of an individual. Sorry but attractive women will always do better. Demand it will fail. Heed my warning and move on.
Comment by A_Beast_Not_Obese — December 5, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
I don’t really see how this is a response to the article, but I’ll address both. No where on this web site does it claim that obesity is healthy, ideal, or even attractive. “In the wild” animals probably look for healthy mates (and if models were compared to animals, to use your analogy, they would most likely be scrawny, not healthy, and NOT attractive). There are plenty of healthy (and attractive)people that will never be in ads because they don’t fit into a narrow definition of beauty. Your callousness to the pain women feel because they can’t live up to this standard–as addressed in the article–is depressing.
This web site will probably fail, if by failure you mean that people and things won’t change. You’re evidence of that. But the potential for failure doesn’t make it wrong to challenge popular beliefs nor does it deter me from continuing the site.
Comment by demandit — December 10, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
ABNO - replusivity? unnatural, defective obesity? How does that relate to the effects of the beauty myth on a contemporary woman’s livelihood, self-actualization and self-worth? What demandit is illuminating by blogging is that there is a rabbit hole of affect on the self-regulated mental and physical health of Human women living in society Today brought on by all sorts of media and culture, not simply advertising. As a fit straight male in his mid-thirties, I see this affect my friends, family and loved ones from as young as 6 to as old as 86. This glib, dismissive and ireful response should be deleted by the admin - good for her for keeping it in and further demonstrating how deeply the ignorance of a chronic, international and intergenerational issue pervades.
–Paul
Comment by paulsholmquist — December 10, 2009 @ 4:10 pm