Staffer discusses sex and body image
Aaron Avance
Issue date: 10/13/08 Section: Opinions
Sex, sluts and skinniness. It seems to me that is all that matters. Not in my opinion, but just look around you. Watch anything on television. See any kind of ad for anything. Just look at the way everyone dresses. There is no such thing as modesty anymore. There is no such thing as "thin" in the society we live in today.
There is something wrong when a six-year-old girl thinks she is fat and feels pressure to start dieting. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology found that 47 percent of girls between the ages of five and eight wanted to be slimmer, mostly for the sake of popularity.
Another poll was taken that stated 40 percent of nine and 10-year-old girls have been on diets.
Maybe it is just me, but I see something wrong in that. They are just kids - they should not be concerned about how thin they are.
You have to question where they are getting this type of image, this type of mentality.
There is such a thing as being too thin. I am not saying I support obesity. That is another problem we have to deal with.
I just hate it when I hear my friends complain about being fat when they look incredible. I can see why they might think they were, though.
Our standard of what is attractive comes straight out of Hollywood. The reason many of them are as thin as that is because they do not eat and are on drugs.
Most of us have a star we look up to and would love to be or love to marry, but the truth is that most them are not happy at all.
As famous as they are, as many fans as they have, you would think they would be. They are empty inside.
No wonder they have these habits and worse. These are the people we look up to; these are the people who create this unreal, unhealthy standard of what everyone else should look like. It is a standard no one should have to live up to.
No wonder my friends think they are not thin enough. There is too much pressure to look like a Hollywood star or a supermodel. I hate it - I hate how that has become our standard.
There is something wrong when a six-year-old girl thinks she is fat and feels pressure to start dieting. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology found that 47 percent of girls between the ages of five and eight wanted to be slimmer, mostly for the sake of popularity.
Another poll was taken that stated 40 percent of nine and 10-year-old girls have been on diets.
Maybe it is just me, but I see something wrong in that. They are just kids - they should not be concerned about how thin they are.
You have to question where they are getting this type of image, this type of mentality.
There is such a thing as being too thin. I am not saying I support obesity. That is another problem we have to deal with.
I just hate it when I hear my friends complain about being fat when they look incredible. I can see why they might think they were, though.
Our standard of what is attractive comes straight out of Hollywood. The reason many of them are as thin as that is because they do not eat and are on drugs.
Most of us have a star we look up to and would love to be or love to marry, but the truth is that most them are not happy at all.
As famous as they are, as many fans as they have, you would think they would be. They are empty inside.
No wonder they have these habits and worse. These are the people we look up to; these are the people who create this unreal, unhealthy standard of what everyone else should look like. It is a standard no one should have to live up to.
No wonder my friends think they are not thin enough. There is too much pressure to look like a Hollywood star or a supermodel. I hate it - I hate how that has become our standard.
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