Often we find out that our ideals are truely out of sync. Influences of others that generally take what we consider healthy, and then twist and distort them into some carnival mirror image. And over time, those once pure ideals become so much more contrived and compromised.
Fat people. Western societies have a general dislike for anyone who doesn't fit in the category of weight healthy or "normal." According to nutrionists and the medical field, normal is a marginally slim section of the spectrum. However, have you ever been introduced to an Asian's perspective? Or a third-world people's ideal? Some consider the belly paunch an indication that you are wealthy. You always eat well. You are beautiful.
Kate Harding has a series of photos up that questions your idea of fat. View it two ways. Play the slideshow without info. Guess who's normal. Then play it with info. Or just play it with the info. If you roll your mouse over the picture as it begins, you'll see the "i" to click for captions.
Thanks to and I wasted all that birth control for the direct and to Kate Harding for the beautiful illustration of why our self images tend to be false.
Man I loved the slideshow. Things like that help, to give me back my perspective, and not forget that the media force feeds women these so called norms.
Funny thing is they are not the norm. Tx u for sharing. :)
Posted by: Ali | 29 October 2007 at 12:05 PM