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Topic: What is poisoning your body image?
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| D_S | Posted – 6/26/2007 11:42:50 AM | show profile | email poster Researching a body image topic. Here we go: It happens all the time. Someone bogs you down with a comment on your gained weight. A boyfriend tells you are not hot enough (and he is snubbing you!). The society, and the people around us are constantly influencing our body image. What situations/events have led to the lowering of your body image? In other words, what are the things that irritate make you look bad to yourself? I am most vulnerable to the following: 1. Mom's comments on my weight, and body size. She is always comparing me to my thinner ("so beautiful") cousin, and other girls we know. 2. Good looking actresses/models, and the appreciation they get from boys I know. OK, I try to resist that, but it just happens. Media is crowded with good-looking faces, and the jealousy factor is always there. How about you? |
| seeattleme | Posted – 6/26/2007 10:02:50 PM | show profile magazine editors like the ones at Elle and Vogue get all hypersensitive about accusations that their images cause eating disorders. They fly all these "health studies" about (severe) anorexia nervosa and say that its a psychological disorder. Bull shit. There are levels of all eating disorders, and different eating disorders, and almost everyone who has suffered from an eating disorder for a period of ten years or more--that has gone for the most part under the radar-- will tell you that the skinny images in fashion magazines have influenced their bad feelings about their body. No, these have nothing to do with Daddy leaving Mommy for another woman, skinnier, prettier, younger, etc., although that can send a message to a girl's head faster than you can say cultural pressure. There are reasons why body image gets out of hand in SOME people. But the national obsession we have with appearance and weight comes at least in p[art from the media images and focus on skinny--even super skinny--females and men with abs and lack of chest and back hair. Poor body image has many roots--but to deny that our media isn't one of them, well, I don't just think that's stupid, it's irresponsible. |
| Daisy Chestnut | Posted – 6/27/2007 10:29:19 AM | show profile | email poster My boyfried at the time ... aimed a desk light at me as if he was interrogating me and remarked that my teeth were SO yellow. Then he said he was just kidding. His comment inspired me to go to a dentist and shell out $275 for a whitening kit. This boyfriend became my husband. To this day, he says he was joking. I told him that in the future do NOT say anything about me unless it's good. So far--4 years--he's had only praise. |
| reporterwriter | Posted – 6/27/2007 11:32:40 AM | show profile I am most vulnerable to my clothes not fitting properly -- gaps between buttons, zippers not meeting and such. I beat myself up over the jelly roll showing under my T-shirts. Then, for better or worse, I resolve to eat better and exercise so I can put away the "fat clothes" for another few years. |
