Therefore, it is for women to go against their own objectification by not aiming at standards of beauty which cultures or media decide for them. It is imperative on their part to treat themselves better, more than merely good looking objects.
It is essential on their part to discover and retain their identities independent of their husbands and the orthodox mindsets inflicted by patriarchy. This is shocking!! Excuse me but fat men were considered very sexy in the middle ages for the exact same reason. Is that also sick? Speak Up. Just like them, anyone can publish on Youth Ki Awaaz. By Sonakshi Samtani : Body dissatisfaction is not limited to American, Asian and European women, it is a widely prevalent phenomenon.
You must be logged in to comment. Pritam Thakur This is shocking!! Raj Excuse me but fat men were considered very sexy in the middle ages for the exact same reason. Medha Appalling. Absolutely appalling. South Africa While South Africa may not figure among the ten most obese nations in the world, here too a history of economic deprivation, especially in the black population as a consequence of Apartheid, may have been responsible for equating large body sizes with material prosperity.
Consequently overweight men and women have been considered attractive according to traditional norms of beauty. In recent times the negative implication of thin figures has further strengthened on account of the ravages caused by AIDS and famines in other African nations from where pictures of emaciated bodies bring the horror of economic and social calamity to full view.
A book by titled Sweetness of Fat 4 relates how in the culture, heaviness with happiness, kindness and social harmony. In rural Jamaica at least, keeping slim has anti-social connotations so much so that thin people who are neither sick nor poor are seen as stingy and socially subversive even.
Fiji Like many other traditional cultures, in Fiji too ample body size is seen as a sign of material prosperity — people with more resources are naturally thought to command a larger food supply and thus more desirable in the social and sexual context. Apart from this, many of the social customs in Fiji revolve around the giving of food as a sign of prosperity which further encourage men and women to pile on weight.
Kuwait According to the Forbes List of the fattest nations in the world, eight out of the top ten countries belong to the South Pacific and the first country from another part of the world to figure on this list is Kuwait where Apart from sedentary lifestyle and fatty diet, a cultural preference for rounded physique may also have played a part in the high percentage of people being overweight.
Historically, the nomadic desert people of Kuwait came to prize fatness as a sign of health and wealth. This is a trend which clearly continues to this day to the extent that rich men choose large-sized wives as living and breathing symbol of their material opulence. Tonga Another South Pacific country with one of the highest percentage of overweight population is Tonga where According to several studies released in by the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, Tongans are genetically predisposed to be fat which added to the increasing adoption of Western diet and lifestyle and lesser reliance on agricultural, labor-intensive work has been responsible for making Tongans one of the fattest people in the world.
PDF] Sobo, E. Recommended Articles. And French, I have to tell you, is right. At my lowest weight I was hired by Weight Watchers to ring up purchases and weigh women each week. It took me two years to lose that weight. And in the meantime she still feels fat. But there is very little support for maintaining the weight, and the praise for each pound she has lost dries up and she realizes she is starving, working out five, six times a week, and nothing replaces the satisfaction of the praise or the enjoyment of the eating.
No wonder the weight gradually comes back. There was something inside me that was open and desperate, and I filled it up with some potato chips. And then thought I should probably go to a Weight Watchers meeting to put on the brakes. I knew from experience that no one there would or could or should help me with the emotional issues I was having. Food was only a salve. So, fat again, I parted ways with Weight Watchers for good.
Being fat in America means you are a problem to be solved and a rich market to reap. Being fat abroad is something else entirely.
Not long after quitting Weight Watchers, my husband was offered a job at a European company based in Holland. We decided to take a chance and move to Amsterdam with our son, who was then I had gained weight from my days of being a before-and-after photo shoot for a magazine reader, I was!
In Amsterdam, everything about me was out of place. My attempts at practicing my Dutch were met with scorn and an immediate switch to English. Even my raincoat — a bright yellow — blared out my presence against the sea of black coats and gray sky. But nothing made me stand out more than my size. Every sidewalk, tram car, and restaurant chair made it clear that in the land of the very tall and very slim I was a sphere, like Violet Beauregarde in yellow, rolling around and taking up more than my share of space.
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