Right, so I should totally be writing my final paper right now for my cinema studies class. But I just had to take a second and get out how amazingly pissed off I am at this very moment. After reading yet another article saying stars these days are too thin, the image of perfection being put forth in our culture is unhealthy... ect. ect.
Its not that these statements are in any way untrue. The upsetting part is that they blame girls like nicole richie, kiera knightly, ect. who clearly have eating disorders themselves, and then proceed to show a picture of knightly, looking gorgeous and twig-like, over a caption saying that she is 100 lbs. But no, its not the media glamorizing unhealthy weight loss. Ad execs aren't using skinnier and skinnier models to sell us things. And the anorexic starlets of the minute surely aren't suffering from a society steeped in impossible expectations the same as the rest of us.
its just too simple, and I can't stand it. Blaming Kate Moss just gives the casting directors, agencies, ect. who hire her and promote her as the standard of beauty free licence to continue to do so.
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