Hai guys.
Zomg such a fast followup post from the lazy, awkward hawk!
Well I'm leaving tomorrow and I just wanna leave you guys with something to remember me by :)
I read an article in Time about how fat American kids are. Look at our lifestyle. Hanging out at Starbucks, eating McDonald's all the time... becoming reliant on computers and spending less and less time biking and rolling down grassy hills...Diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks are rampant. Granted, skinny is not always healthy either. The thing is though, in a country surrounded by so many high-calorie temptations, being skinny usually means the lifeguard at the gene pool was unusually attentive or that the skinny person worked hard for their body. While the media is lampooning the overweight and bringing the skinny up for admiration or attention(ex. Nicole Richie and Angelina Jolie), society is trying to make people realize how beautiful they are despite public opinion. Rather inconsistent.
Looking at teen heroes like Hannah Montana and Vanessa Hudgens makes girls especially hate themselves. Not everyone has the genes for C cups and size 0 butts. But lately plus-sizers have become more prominent. The lead of Hairspray, for instance, gets the supposedly hot Zac Efron. The lead girl of Camp Rock (plotless drivel though it is) is not ridiculously beautiful or skinny in any way. She even has a slight buttchin. Cory in the House is led by the plus-size Kyle Massey, and Raven of That's so Raven definitely can't hula-hoop with a Cheerio.
It's great that Disney is trying to show that big can be beautiful. But at the same time, is it a form of idolizing what ought to be changed?
1 comment:
I've never thought of that in this way...but yeah, while we should promote open mindedness, our society is filled with paradoxes.
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