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CherieP -> RE: Old, butt-ugly, unkempt, hillbilly, uneducated "Doms" and the subs that love them... (9/23/2006 5:39:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Pearlsaswinger
Hmmm. A newbie here so I expect to be flamed. Age and the changes age brings to a face/skin are only alterable by surgery which is a huge undertaking - OK; creams, staying out of the sun, genetics and goood ol' life can add or detract from the wrinkle count but once you have a 40/50/60 year old face the knife is your only option (unless, shock horror you LIKE the way you are!). However you have total control over your body. Eat too much/the wrong foods = you'll get fat. Eat sensible portions of low fat/low sugar food = you won't. Eat cereals, vegetables, fruit, lean meat, fish - it ain't rocket science.
Ummm, not exactly...there can be many, many reasons why someone is larger than the super-thin figure that is being presented as the "ideal" of health and beauty nowadays that have nothing whatsoever to do with a person's eating habits. An auto accident injury which impairs one's mobility, medications which cause the metabolism to go into "pack it on" mode, and the infamous hypothyroidism to name just a few. In fact, some researchers are questioning (because of the pattern by which the so-called "obesity epidemic" has spread throughout the world) whether there might actually be a virus or some such at work after all.
One thing that skinnies and the people who think we should all be skinnies rarely acknowledge is that those who are underweight have just as many health problems as the truly obese do, and the same shortened life expectancy as a result. Those studies that we read about, which supposedly prove that thin=healthy? They actually show that the populations considered *overweight* - not the ultra-thin, not the "normal", and not the obese - have the best health & life expectancy. And yet the image that is presented by the media in general as "ideal", in terms of both health and beauty, is actually *underweight* and just as unhealthy as morbidly obese. Just look at the furor in the fashion world over Madrid's recent banning of models with a BMI under 18.
Are a lot of male doms fixated on insisting that their subs lose weight? I dunno, but I know that a male dom whose only interest seemed to be starving *me* into being skinny was the catalyst for my discovery of my own dominant tendencies. Ironically, he told me before we got involved that my weight wasn't an issue, but apparantly what he meant was it wasn't an issue so long as I was willing to follow a seriously dangerous starvation diet and not do much of anything else to serve him until I whittled down to half my size. I guess I should be grateful in a way...after all, I'm a bigger woman now thanks to his teachings. :-p
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