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[quote=Anonymous]Jesus what an ugly ugly ugly thread. I think all of you talking about the dangers of 'glorifying obesity' should go spend some time with teenage (and preteen and even child) girls or even reading some research about teenage girls' mentality. Because most young girls are taught to start finding flaws with their body by 10 years old. Four out of five 10 year olds are AFRAID of becoming fat. You most certainly will not find a teenage girl who thinks obesity is a great goal. You will find a lot of teenage girls would think that obesity is basically the worst thing that could possibly happen to them. You will find teenage girls that believe that their BMI is the most important thing in their life.

Sure, obesity isn't a great health choice, but guess what, there are worse things that could happen to a girl. Instead of focusing on education, on not being used by a boy (or girl), on learning how to believe in themselves, on seeing their worth as human beings, they are worried about being fat. So while Tess is most certainly on the extreme end, I DO think it is valuable to show these girls that obesity is not something that will cease to make them count as human beings, and that is what society and 80% of this thread is telling them every single day. Every single day they are told they aren't pretty or thin enough, and the one time a magazine has the gal to put it out there that someone can be obese, even morbidly obese, and still find joy in the world and is still able to find value in themselves as a human being they are told they are perpetuating fatness.

It SUCKS to be fat in America. It sucks to even be chubby in America. This is not going to change, so you all have already won. All you do in moments like these is make sure the fat people know how much you truly hate and loathe them. And that, to me, doesn't seem like a recipe to get them motivated to change. It seems like a motivation for depression. And it seems like a poison we are infecting our young girls with. [/quote]

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