I thought that Lamm brought up an interesting perspective in her article. It seems as though there is really nothing anyone can do about being fat. You can't lose enough weight and keep it off no matter how hard you try. In the article where she was issueing her family I felt sad for her because weight shouldn't be about how a child grows up. The tone she uses in this article I believe really let you know that she is trying to approach her problem as honest as possible. Her style tries to show that it is a real issue and she is laying it out for everyone to see. After reading her article I believe her argument was very convincing, we can only imagine what it would be like to be in her situation because even if we tried some of us would never fat and made fun of and beltittled the way she was. I think that the message of this argument is that people need to become more aware the situation that others have to live with. Why does our society think that thin is in? Especially the part of the article with diet books in it made me think that all being thin is a media portayal of the perfect body type, and a marketing ploy.
I think you brought up a good point about why does everyone think that 'thin is in?' What is it exactly about being thin makes someone attracted to someone else, aside from what you said about people trying to find mates to produce offspring with (subconsciously) I think it depends a lot on the culture, I had a very obese friend in high school with a killer sense of humor, and I wasn't exactly skinny as a rail either at the time, but he'd tell me that if we were living in the cave man days we'd have it made, slower metabolisms were an adaptation. I think it's interesting, but sad, how there are channels like E that exist solely to discuss the way celebrities look and make millions get their priorities screwed up in order to try to keep up with an illusion. Like at the Oscars or the Grammys, it's more important if you look good than if you win your reward.
Posted by: josh at December 8, 2004 03:52 PM