Society has always been fixated with the appearance of others. The first impression people get of others is always based off their outer appearance; whether the person is dressed in the style, or stuck in another decade, or if the person is heavy vs. being skinny, whatever they look like on the outside is the first thing that people think about each other. But recently, I have noticed that people are calling others "fat" if they are not a size 0 or 2. I noticed it in regards to Cheryl Burke, a dancer on the TV show Dancing With the Stars. Over the summer, she gained a few pounds and it was only slightly noticeable to the people who have seen her in previous seasons. But how is going from 120 pounds to 125 or 130 pounds considered fat?
I don't understand that whole thing of being fat if you are not a size 00,0,1, or 2. Or if now being a size 4 is like adding and entire 10 to it and making it a 14. It has been proven that people who are larger are generally picked on and given jobs fewer times than people who are smaller and more attractive. But why is society so fixated on the outer appearance and being skinny when the country is heading towards an obesity epidemic? And why is there a different standard for men than for women? What do you think?
1 comment:
Victoria you are so right. Everybody in the media and just our society in general these days are all focused on mainly superficial things. How could somebody say that Cheryl Burke is fat when she gainned only a few pounds? People make such a huge deal out of things that don't even matter. Just because you don't look like a twig, you're automatically considered fat? That's absurd. More and more people in America are over weight and heading toward obesity, but the woman who is hmm, a whopping 130 pounds is fat. Yeah, ookay...
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