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Dauric -> RE: BBW's, Is this something as a society that we should encourage? (5/13/2007 6:41:12 PM)
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Skimming through most of this, I think the point of the original post was entirely missed.
There exists the truely BBW out there, and I've had the pleasue of knowing one or two that knew it and didn't have problems with their body image, and knew how to dress to make the most of it... mmmmm squeezeable.... Ahem.. Sorry, flashbacks...
Then there's the morbidly obese which "question" was talkling about, the ones that weigh two to four times what a typical american weighs. In my jobless days I had the displeasure of seeing one of those daytime freak shows (Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, or something else) where they found some of these people who were obscenely out of perportion (about half of the grotesque display couldn't stand without assistance), who beyond all scientific reason or artistic asthetic, claimed that they were "Big Beautiful Women".
Mind you, just as the vast majority of the thread seemed to miss the point, so (in my own never all that humble opinion) did the original poster. For a morbidly obese woman to adopt the label of "BBW" is not societal encouragement, it is personal denial. It's the same denial, though in a different guise, that makes bulemics think they're attractive despite their emaciated (and in some cases skeletal) appearance.
There's a lot of people hung up on "Fault". "Something's wrong with you therefore -you- -did- something wrong". This is not always the case, and in many cases the cause of the weight issues are not even related directly to food. Genetic predisposition, glandular failures, stress (my own weight-demon), disease or injuries can all contribute to someone's isues with weight one way or another. However our society places a stigma on weight so that if you are not of a cerrtain ideal, you are worth less as a human being.
The grand upshot is that people who have morbid obesity (and realize, my definition of morbid isn't the same as the accepted medical definition, I'm more realistic about life in general) or who are dangerously underweight, cannot bring themselves to even think of themselves asbeing less than"Beautiful" for fear of damaging their value as a person, and without admitting that they have a problem puts them in serious medical danger.
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All that said about those who are -wildly- out of the norm, both morbidly obese and morbidly underweight; I will agree that the culture of thin has run completely amok. Personally I find most "Supermodels" unattractive. They're too plastic looking and/or they simply lack the feminity and the curves that a woman should have, and yet these "dress-hangers" are paid ludicrous amounts of money to wear rediculus outfits. The entire fashon industry is a pack of lunatics that should be locked away in padded cells for their safety and our sanity (IMNSHO). I've seen dating site pictures of knockout women describing themselves as "BBW". I'm an artist, I know what the human body's perportions are supposed to be, and i'm aware of what reasonable variation in size looks like (you have to know that to draw individuals without making them look like characture cartoons), they werent' "Big" at all. They had been exposed to the insanely thin as the ideal for so long that they didn't realize that they actually were the ideal.
As always, just my own $0.02,
Dauric.
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