Posted by zazenducky on September 7, 2006, at 9:21:03
In reply to Re: Katie Couric » Dr. Beth Steinhauer, posted by Poet on September 6, 2006, at 10:54:35
i wonder if the national enquirer is retouching all the anorexics its showcasing disparingingly on its covers.....i don't really get why people want to tsk tsk at very thin people but i guess it sells magazines.
do you think the stories criticizing these underweight images will have any effect on the public?
i remember reading years ago a prediction that the aids epidemic would make bigger silhouettes more desirable like the the victorian curvy women in the TB era. but i didn't see that happen. but the meth epidemic has made skinniness not very attractive accompaied by toothlessness and accelerated aging so do you think the pendulum might swing back?
the national enquirer may not be vogue or whatever but a whoooole bunch of people are looking at it in the checkout stands
would a general trend toward negatively commenting on underweight women have the opposite effect of using them as positive images?
i personally don't think images in the media have very much to do with anorexia i think it justs serves as a rationale for the behaviour rather than causing it.
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