Have you ever looked in a magazine and saw a girl wearing size 0 jeans and looked like she had bones sticking out of her neck and ribs, and thought to yourself that you wanted to look like her? Today, girls feel they have to look skinny in order to look beautiful. In order to achieve this look girls tend to go on diets. However their diets, in most cases turn into anorexia or bulimia. Today, anorexia is the third most chronic disease illness among adolescents. 95% of girls ages 12-25 have an eating disorder, while 50% girls ages 11-13 think they are overweight and 80% of 13 year old girls have attempted to lose weight. Girls should not think they need to put themselves in harms way in order to be beautiful. They should learn to accept themselves for who they are and not to be something they’re not.
http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm
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I can't relate to the feelings a lady might have, as I am not one.
I can tell you the man's perspective. Or, specifically, THIS man's perspective.
Those girls that are far too thin are just not what we (or I) want. They are what shallow people say we want.
The problem is, too many people (men and women alike) are little more than bipedal sheep. They do what they are told to do and they believe what they are told to believe.... everything from what 'pretty' is to what music to like, what movies to see, what TV shows are good....
It is all a chasing after the wind.
95% of girls ages 12-25 have an eating disorder
Uhm, WHAT?
Source for that, please?
As someone from the other side of the spectrum, I disagree with the sentiment that girls want to look like they fit into a size 0 or even that society deems thin is beautiful.
Growing up, I was always underweight, skin and bones, and no amount of weight lifting or eating seemed to help me gain weight. And all I heard growing up was how men liked women with a little "meat on their bones".
Additionally, most of the female role models (real role models, not girlies with breasts pretending to be role models because they became famous) when I was young were of average size, not skin and bones: Suzanne Somers, Madonna, Roseanne Arnold, even Debbie Gibson (if you want a comparable "role model" to today's Brittney Spears), Oprah - all were at least a size 6-8 or larger.
If young girls are going on these diets to lose weight because they believe "society" wants them to be thin, then it seems natural to blame society. But the truth is, society doesn't want them to be thin - they only blame society because it's easier for the parents to say "it's society's fault for hiring supermodels" than it is for parents to say "it's my fault for not teaching my daughter a strong sense of self-worth."
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I question what Kiota does too. 95% that is outrageous and almost impossible. If it was that horrible, then there would be WAYYYYYYYY more coverage and intervention on this topic.