Reply To: White Women On the Fat Track?

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Albert-Cross
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This issue must be looked at in a historical context. For many thousands of years the ideal female body was one that exhibited the characteristics of pregnancy. A woman was considered healthy if she had enought body fat to easlily support a pregnancy, and so callled ‘feminine characteristics’ evovled (like wide hips, a comparitively large breast etc.). In much more recent times (as early as the 1700’s – 1800’s) the ideal female body was much larger than the ‘ideal’ female body of today. In the the 1950’s women like Marilyn Monroe exemplified the female ideal, with their ‘full’ figures and ’rounder’ shapes. Today, the idea of the perfect white woman as being underweight and ‘athletic’ in appearance is etirely artificial. The proliferation of fashion magazines in the eighties and nineties has extenuated the problem. It is of interest to note that, nowadays, the editors et. al of the fashion magazines tend to be women and gay men. It takes little imagination to see that a woman and/or gay man would prefer the skinnier, more ‘boyish’ look of today’s fashion model.

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Name : Albert-Cross, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States,