Think Progress reports:
Activist Catherine Weingarten says that she knows firsthand how dangerous society’s unrealistic standards of beauty can be for impressionable young women. That’s why, after overcoming an eating disorder, she joined the international group Endangered Bodies to lobby against industries that don’t celebrate the diversity of body types.
Weingarten’s battle recently reached a new frontier: Facebook. Earlier this month, she launched a Change.org campaign to get the “feeling fat” emoticon removed from the social media site. More than 16,000 people have joined the movement so far, more than halfway toward Endangered Bodies’ goal of 25,000 signatures...
“When Facebook users set their status to ‘feeling fat,’ they are making fun of people who consider themselves to be overweight, which can include many people with eating disorders,” Weingarten wrote in the petition. “That is not ok. Fat is not a feeling. Fat is a natural part of our bodies, no matter their weight. And all bodies deserve to be respected and cared for.”
She types fat.
ReplyDeleteI heard violins as I read this.
ReplyDeleteAlso the current uproar about the 'beautiful people' dating site. Admittedly the operators are using the 'negative publicity' as publicity.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/dating-site-for-beautiful-people-only-removes-3000-members-for-ageing-and-weight-gain-10093257.html
"Activist Catherine Weingarten says that she knows firsthand how dangerous society’s unrealistic standards of beauty can be for impressionable young women."
ReplyDeleteWhat these activists don't understand is that word "beauty" is an assessment of sexual desirability, and as such, can only apply to those who possess sexually desirable features, as subjectively assessed by the individual.
What overly-skinny women need to understand is that if they're too skinny, they could be a bad experience in bed. And while overly-skinny is definitely more in the direction of "beautiful" than is being overweight, at some point you become "sickly", which is not sexually desirable.
There, I solved all of these women's body issues.