Thinsanity
Have you seen Kiera Knightley's collarbone lately? I bet she could use it as a paper opener. Or, if she could bend that way, she could use it to shave her legs. Of course the problem is that she's still a role model to impressionable tweens and teens. And now there's a word for it: Thinspiration.
"More than half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys adopt unhealthy weight-control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives."
I don't remember where I read it, but someone somewhere (help me out) was mocking the idea that in the land of the obesity crisis, that "thinspiration" could even be a problem. They were implying that it's probably a good idea to have kids panicking over weight and exhibiting anorexic behaviors, because at least then they won't get fat like everyone else. I don't want obese kids anymore than I want anorexic kids, though. I just want us to find a happy medium of health and acceptance, somewhere in there. Somehow.
"More than half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys adopt unhealthy weight-control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives."
I don't remember where I read it, but someone somewhere (help me out) was mocking the idea that in the land of the obesity crisis, that "thinspiration" could even be a problem. They were implying that it's probably a good idea to have kids panicking over weight and exhibiting anorexic behaviors, because at least then they won't get fat like everyone else. I don't want obese kids anymore than I want anorexic kids, though. I just want us to find a happy medium of health and acceptance, somewhere in there. Somehow.
posted by mo pie at 3:28 PM
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Mo said, "I don't remember where I read it, but someone somewhere (help me out)"
Sung to the tune of "Any Major Dude":
"Any 'ana' site will say it is better to die than be fat"
and it makes me absolutely FURIOUS.
I'd like to think there may be a counter-punch in what Kelly Clarkson (the real one) says on that SkySite (I went back to read the article). SHE says she's "more interested in eating healthy than in being overly thin."
Seems like these days everyone needs a catch phrase in order for an idea to sink in. I REALLY think that could be the one. I personally am going to start repeating it EVERY SINGLE TIME one of my size 0-2-4-6 friends starts to moan about "being fat."
Plus, the idea -- eating healthy and working out, rather than starving -- actually makes sense.
What a concept.
Skipping meals, taking laxitives, etc., as a teen leads to adult obesity. I slowed down my metabolism so badly when I was young, trying to look like one of Charlie's Angels (hi, I'm old), that, as an adult, I gain weight just by looking at food.
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