Bitch, please.

pluseyes:

obifferson:

Apparently there’s a British tv show called Supersize vs Superskinny where essentially anorexic and obese girls (I assume that’s the language they’re using) switch diets. Normally I’d have a lot of thoughts about this but this short clip shut me up before I had any thoughts to think. It’s interesting that they don’t make either woman’s body look more airbrushed in post. They both look real. The show is willing to show both of their bodies and offering the perspective of both women in short, they make both situations seem equally dire (instead of the skinny being good and the overweight being disgusting), but also there’s a kind sort of envy between both women. One wants to be bigger and one wants to be smaller.

I wouldn’t expect an American show to be so seemingly balanced or healthy in this way. Of course, putting both of these people on television as examples of things that are bad isn’t necessarily healthy culturally… I guess it depends on how its treated. Interesting all the same!

Thanks to shaanmichael for the link.

Believe me, it’s not a good thing. I am sick of these shows that take it upon themselves to tell people how terrible their diets are by putting their week’s food intake into six wheelbarrows or whatever. It enforces shaming people publically for their personal decisions about what they eat (no matter how sensitively the presenters go about it, the subjects are still in the stocks for the insensitive British public). It definitely enforces that either of those body types are bad, yes, but furthermore it enforces the idea that to be “supersize” you necessarily have the insanely high-fat, high-calorie diets of most of the people they choose for the show (and to be “superskinny” you must be terrified of food). The disgust that the superskinny person expresses at eating the supersized’s diet just gets inextricably linked with the supersized’s personality - they must be a monster to be able to eat all this, etc.

And worst of all is whenever this is on it trends on UK twitter and I get to see all those thousands of people going “urrrgggh what a pig” at the fatties.

My problem with the show is that it presents people with atypical body types as essentially being on the same level as circus freaks - “OMG WHAT THE FUCK LOOK HOW SKINNY/FAT/WEIRD (S)HE IS”

i love this site. it’s a modelling site, but they have a really diverse range of models- male, female, short, tall, fat, thin, disabled, trans, alternative. anyone who’s ever wanted to get into modelling but was disheartened by not being a typical model should check them out, because this is a company that really does embrace difference.

I wish I was more confident.

I think it;s caleld the ghost on the stairs? or something like that? When you go away from a situation and realise EVERYTHING you should have said.
But in situations where I have to stick up for my opinion or myself, I never do cuz I’m never confident enough that I’m…

Did I tell you about that? The french call it “Esprit de l’escalier” which does translate as the ghost on the stairs.

Anyway, the best thing you can do is load up on information to back up your points, it’ll help you feel a lot more confident when you’re in a position of discussing your view. Besides, it’s always interesting to learn in greater depth about things you’re interested in.