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Date Posted: 15:17:41 01/10/03 Fri
Author: Alice
Author Host/IP: adsl-63-206-94-103.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net / 63.206.94.103
Subject: Re: too fat too thin
In reply to: isabelle 's message, "too fat too thin" on 01:05:52 01/07/03 Tue

Do diets make you fat? I find immense irony in the fact that our diet industry makes more than the GDP of many starving countries. And yet we're soooooooooooo fat. Yes, everyone has pointed it out - we are FAT FAT FAT! If Americans were so proud of being fat, they wouldn't spend billions of dollars a year trying to not be fat. Yes I do blame the media, but I also blame people, everyday people. We're our own worst enemy. Maybe we're so fat because we're the biggest example of nothing being our fault. Maybe once the country starts to take responsibility for its actions, its people will follow suit!

Ultimately I think too big a deal is made of it. It's been blown into this huge thing, which of course gives it more power and makes it a more powerful tool! I think if everyone just got over it, as in -- it's not that big of a deal, you can't have a world of clones, some are fat some are thin, just live your life -- it would be much better all around. Think of all the time and effort and energy (mostly) women put into dieting and berating themselves and binging and barfing and starving and feeling so much guilt and sorrow and rage and anger and self-pity and hope and despair - imagine if they just accepted the fact that they are who they are and put that energy into something that actually helped the world, like inventing a vehicle that used renewable power, or whatever. Imagine the possibilities! We limit ourselves and we limit each other with these rigid little appearance-standards we've constructed.

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