Rhetoric 1101

hey tonna - i just noticed that in one of your blogs you said that you had an eating disorder, or maybe i read it wrong. i think this stuff is very interesting and i was wondering if youd be willing to share a lil... a least just with me. or maybe thats part of your presentation- just thought id ask - have a wonderful weekend.
xoxo

personally, i think that people with anorexia are just trying to find something to blame their problems on and that the most obvious thing to blame it on, i think that maybe some people become anorexic because of standards and such but i personally think that people place too much of the blame on society.

Seriously, I do think that most cases of anorexia do actually originate from the whole "I'm fat!" thing and they say this because the model of beauty that is depicted on TV and other popular media is skinny. Whereas I know I want a girl with a little meat on her bones and most guys would agree with me. The only skinny people on TV are models and I am sure they would love to eat like a normal person, but the money they make to do it is way more influential.

I don't think that it is society or the magazines that is driving these women to become anorexic. I believe that it is the guys that are causing this. I don't want to offend anyone with my comments, but I any only stating my opinions. In my experience I see it as a culture thing. It seems as if the men of color want a girl who actually has a body and has some meat on her bones. But other guys, for example, white guys want skinny, tiny girls with no fat whatsoever. I know there may be some African American women who are anorexic, but I don't know of any. From my personal experience I can say that i wanted quite the opposite. I wanted to gain weight, I wanted to be noticed by the guys in my school, by being "thick". I despised being skinny and that is what I always was.

I think that the way models are portrayed on the TV as having "the" best bodies is wrong and causes a lot of girls to think that they should do whatever it takes to become like them. I read an article about anorexia, and it was so sad to see these girls just starving themselves to death (the article included pictures where the girls rib bones were showing from how skinny they were). I don't know if the media and society is the main cause for anorexia in all cases, but I do feel that they play a big part of it. Girls feel that in order to be noticed by guys they have to look like the superslim models on TV. I agree with King James that those models would probably love to eat like everyone else, but the money that they earn "is way more influential".

Romisha brings up a point that you might want to address in your paper, palm tree: What about men? Is that part of it? Can men's opinions about women's bodies (especially men who like very thin women, because as Romisha points out, you can't say that all men like a certain kind of body) trigger anorexia?

I think the media portray women as that if they aren't skinny enough they aren't good for anything. Have you ever seen Zoolander? In the movie there is a scene when a girl is talking about how she was blumic and her friends that were models told her that it was a good way to lose a few pounds before a show. It was supposed to be a joke, but I can't help thinking that there is some relevance to that.