Comments on: Not A Pretty Picture http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/ Parenting, Politics and News for the Perfectly Challenged Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:40:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jessica Carlson http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8703 Jessica Carlson Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:02:10 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8703 Actually, it may come as a big suprise to most of you -- I just got through reading a book on anorexia and it stated that scientist believe it to be a neuro/biological disorder. If that is true, it completely changes my damnation of society, because if that were true, the "illness" would manifest itself in one way or another, regardless of social pressures. What do you all think of that? Actually, it may come as a big suprise to most of you — I just got through reading a book on anorexia and it stated that scientist believe it to be a neuro/biological disorder. If that is true, it completely changes my damnation of society, because if that were true, the “illness” would manifest itself in one way or another, regardless of social pressures. What do you all think of that?

]]> By: Gina http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8695 Gina Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:54:49 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8695 I think I read somewhere that mothers play a HUGE influence on their daughter's self esteem. And sometimes mothers make these offhand remarks about themselves (not their daughters) about how they look and the daughters internalize that. I'm not blaming moms, it is just a shame that people can't be happy the way they are. They always have to be thinner/better hair/whiter teeth. And the bigger shame is that the myth of beauty is all about consumption. I think I read somewhere that mothers play a HUGE influence on their daughter’s self esteem. And sometimes mothers make these offhand remarks about themselves (not their daughters) about how they look and the daughters internalize that.

I’m not blaming moms, it is just a shame that people can’t be happy the way they are. They always have to be thinner/better hair/whiter teeth.

And the bigger shame is that the myth of beauty is all about consumption.

]]> By: Miss Conception http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8511 Miss Conception Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:07:47 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8511 I read Blog Antagonist's post too. I didn't know what to say. It's disheartening, and Antique Mommy is right. Why is it so hard for us as a people to hit the midground? Why are we over or under the healthiest weight margins in so many cases? And let us not forget that obesity is as great an eating disorder as anorexia, as bulimia - but without the sympathy. It is real easy for average-to-thin people to feel disgust with the overweight for being lazy, grazing slackers. It is just as easy for those who struggle with their weight to feel angry at the skeletal girls with jutting hips and sunken eyes for perpetuating the thin-is-in thing, for having the audacity to have such a problem as being too thin. The key is compassion - a disorder is a disorder and it's harmful either way. Why can't we all just get along... and be healthy... I have no answers. But I liked your piece. I read Blog Antagonist’s post too. I didn’t know what to say.

It’s disheartening, and Antique Mommy is right.

Why is it so hard for us as a people to hit the midground? Why are we over or under the healthiest weight margins in so many cases?

And let us not forget that obesity is as great an eating disorder as anorexia, as bulimia - but without the sympathy.

It is real easy for average-to-thin people to feel disgust with the overweight for being lazy, grazing slackers. It is just as easy for those who struggle with their weight to feel angry at the skeletal girls with jutting hips and sunken eyes for perpetuating the thin-is-in thing, for having the audacity to have such a problem as being too thin.

The key is compassion - a disorder is a disorder and it’s harmful either way.

Why can’t we all just get along… and be healthy… I have no answers. But I liked your piece.

]]> By: Antique Mommy http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8436 Antique Mommy Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:22:40 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2006/11/18/not-a-pretty-picture/#comment-8436 Our country is insane. We have 3/4 of the population digging their graves with their forks and then this other group that are starving themselves to death. What is wrong with us?! Our country is insane. We have 3/4 of the population digging their graves with their forks and then this other group that are starving themselves to death. What is wrong with us?!

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