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| Jacquiline 17 "I try to like myself
for what I am but I open a magazine and immediately compare myself with
those perfect models"
Amy 16 "Everywhere I look there are
skinny people, which makes me hate myself even more. I wish magazines would
stop portraying 'fat' as being bad".
ANON 16"Sometimes I wish supermodels
didn't exist and body shape didn't matter because then you wouldn't have
to keep up. Everyone says I'm underweight and no-one wants to help me lose
weight, so I can look like one of those models".
Kelly 14"Why can't we have healthy role models of all sizes, so it's fair to everyone? Why does everyone have this Bеаυty Thіnk? It's like a curse and eventually wrecks peoples lives". |
If the virtue of intelligence was stressed by a society as desirable, and young people responded by abusing drugs, would we believe that these young people were merely trying to increase their IQ's? Or would we see their self-abuse as symptomatic of a larger rebellion against intelligence and the necessity to think?
Why then do we believe that the self-destructiveness of anorexia is the result of a real desire on the part of young women to be beautiful, one that is brought on by our society's high standards of female beauty, instead of as a symptom of our even larger moral rebellion against beauty itself?
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