Super thin - a super class?

Question

This is part of my title for my dissertation that is exploring the reverence of extreme thinness and weight loss in society and the media. Are the super-thin portrayed as an elitist group? Any opinions are welcome. I am particularly looking to do an anonymous email interview with someone who has suffered with an eating disorder. Thanks.

Answer 1

I have suffered from this most of my life. I'm at a good weight now(a very good weight of 10 st), but this was not the case in my past. With most people it's not about fat or skinny, it's about the power you get from NOT EATING. I said many a time "I could eat if I want, but I don't need to", and thought that was normal. I'm quite happy to answer any questions, just click on my profile and e-mail me.

Answer 2

The media and publications do not help in the way they portray models and thin people in general. Being thin, we are told, is the way to be, it is healthier and more attractive. But how does that help people who aren't this? And how does that make them feel? People with eating disorders looking at this don't just decide to have a disorder, they have serious self awareness and image problems. Many are unconfident with life and lack the basic functions needed just to face life everyday.

I was anorexic and bulimic for about 7 years or so and was exactly all the things I described above. I was lucky in that when I left school I got a job in a doctors surgery and saw first hand the devastation it causes. I am now fully aware what I put my family and body through and to this day I have medical problems caused by it. It was only when I had my first child I realised I had to change for her, and I did. But I wouldn't say I am cured of it. I believe it is with you for the rest of your life. Although I don't starve myself or make myself sick anymore I am consciously aware of food, weight and everyone around me.

It is not as simple as blaming it solely on the media as there are many factors with these illnesses and I for one believe that it stems from our genetic make up.

Answer 3

Why do people blame the media, the celebreties, the pope and the trash man? When will we start taking responsibility for our own actions. Very few jobs(none in the corporate world) require a person to be a specific weight. I think it is our obsession with celebreties and media that needs to be cured first.

Turn off the TV, burn the glossy magazines, get outside and smell the fresh air

Answer 4

Absolutely. In some senses there is a ruling class in the U.S. made up of extremely thin people. Thin is high status and the thinner you are the higher your status. I definitely have a desire to become super thin and wear top designer clothes just so that my status would rise in this highly competitive city (New York.)

Answer 5

I think this is true when they are in the media, as they often have wealth to go along with it with is another plus - they seem to have an edge to them.

It's almost like thin people seem strong, saucy and elisist where much larger people are seen as dowdy, average, soft, friendly but not that cool.

Most celeb's weren't that special until the joined the size 0 clan.

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Answer 6

Without a doubt there is a connection between wealth and size in our society. And you only have to look through any womens magazine and see how images a coded to see that super thin=super status

Answer 7

i imagine in any subculture wellbeing is acceptable, yet fashion is amazingly typically neither healthful nor acceptable - they only inform you it really is to promote you some thing. today in our Western subculture, weight problems is a significant ailment. undesirable human beings tend to be fat, settee potatoes. previous human beings get fat too "middle age spread", so as that the more youthful you look, the suit you seem. What this implies is that it really is seen healthful to be narrow. you could pass about more desirable ideal, you're youthful, you're a lot less likely to drop useless with some ailment, and so the idea of mounds of wobbling fat is heavily offputting, and a lithe, in fantastic condition willowy human being is seen acceptable. Now take your self to a poorer usa, the position there's a nutrition scarcity, and maximum persons have ribs showing. moms won't be able to produce adequate milk to feed their babies, human beings aren't to any extent further reliable adequate to paintings flat out adequate, there are fertility issues led to by using malnutrition. eating properly is then a demonstration of wealth and wellbeing and health. once you've a touch bit fat round you, then this shows you're reliable adequate to be able to have adequate money a wealthy weightloss plan, you could feed your children and altogether provide a miles more desirable ideal time. To be fat then is a demonstration of elegance, and thinness is seen grotesque. ultimately, mice ate up a rather stringent weightloss plan, yet very nearly adequate for universal desires, are skinny, yet stay longest of all with the least wellbeing issues. it is suited to human beings too. eating sparingly, only, yet safely supplies the finest wellbeing and longest life of all. those persons tend to be narrow.

Answer 8

Many patients ask me how they can slim down. I am against prescription pills because I prescribed them many years ago, and some of my patients became very ill.

I now recommend that people eat right and exercise. However, if they would like a little "help", I now recommend Hoodia (it's important to note that not all Hoodia works well, even if the bottle says "pure" or "standard".

The Hoodia being sold at http://www.alllsite.info/free-diet-pills.php is in my opinion, the best product on the market. It's pure, no side effects, and it's only $4.97 for 2 weeks (yes, less than $5 !). My patients have seen dramatic results with this particular Hoodia.

Answer 9

Super thin people are striving for an ideal that doesn't exist, spurred on by media coverage of stick thin models and celebrities.

Answer 10

they are - first they were seen in a positive light. however, this has altered what with the "lollipop head" syndrome..

to be so fixated on ones body image for the purpose of fashion and what's "in" demonstrates how materialistic society has become especially when the health dangers have been proven