Oh, fuck off.
Seriously though, I am wholly unsurprised that AAP would take a study on body image and worrying health trends in women and turn it into a shame game attacking them for being fat and stupid. Good thing they syndicated it to all the newspapers in the country so none of us miss out on this 'breaking news item'...
Women getting fatter, more clueless
Monday Sep 10 00:02 AEST
Young women are getting fatter but they are clueless when it comes to shedding those extra kilos, according to a new body image survey.
The Cosmopolitan magazine survey of more than 5,000 Australian women aged 18-34 found about 42 per cent considered themselves overweight or obese.
The study conveniently ignores the fact that Cosmopolitan contributes heavily to body dysmorphia through articles such as "Decode Your Breakfast!" and "The $5 Weight Loss Gizmo" (both in last month's issue). Even their high ground claims of featuring 'real women' in the magazine ring hollow when you realise it only extends to those up to size 16.
I suppose all the unreal fat women are huddled in a cave somewhere, invisible to the world until the moment they toddle out to blink like moo cows in the sun and do something naughty like eat a meal or something. No wonder 10% of survey respondents say they'd 'happily trade four or more years off their lives to slim down.'
And when it comes to doing the right thing by their bodies, women are big on bad habits.
Great. Not only are they fat bitches, they're also lazy when it comes to looking after themselves. Don't they realise who they're hurting here?
Their partners too are suffering in the bedroom, with one in six women saying they prefer chocolate to sex.
Riiiiight. Fat, lazy AND selfish. They don't even deserve to live.
Peace out (fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round...)
Monday, September 10, 2007
Press getting dumber, more manipulative
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As you very well said, FUCK OFF!
I particularly like "their partners are suffering in the bedroom". Poor partners, a.k.a. men! We all know that if there are problems in the bedroom it MUST BE because of the women. It couldn't possibly be because men fail to reach the standard set by chocolate.
off, indeed. So we're all fat, lazy, and unsexual. Our poor mates! My partner would be shocked to learn she's supposed to prefer chocolate to me, or me to prefer chocolate to her.
Now, though, why quibble? Dribble chocolate sauce on each other and enjoy the best of both worlds!
I think the words of Sir Mix A Lot are needed here...
'when it comes to females, Cosmo ain't got nothin' to do with my selection'
Add to that list any media source that pulls that kind of shit.
And it says that the survey was talking about the 42% women that 'considered themselves obese or overweight'. That doesn't necessarily mean that they ARE, just they don't feel good about themselves after reading through Cosmo and its pages and pages of skeletors.
And can i just add:
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Yowzer.
What Bec said. Exactly. 42% of women (who I assume read and respond to Cosmo surveys) consider themselves to be overweight. Telling them they need to improve their diets and lifestyles instead of their self perception or self esteem will undoubtedly help continue to promote Cosmo sales (as they reveal the secret to weightloss. And the other secret. And the more secret secret.)
Yawp, you know the end of the world is night when Herald Sun and Cosmo jump into bed together and start pumping out some scary mutant offspring.
I especially like the link between the findings: "clueless when it comes to shedding those extra kilos" and the headline "more clueless".
My second favourite part is Cosmo's admission that their diet advice is not worth the paper it's printed on - otherwise surely there would be a nation of skinnies created from "Eat one orange a day for good health! Britney says it really works!" methodology.
Sad. But not entirely unexpected.
That's disgusting.
What about all the overweight men with their bad habits of drinking copious amounts of beer and bourbon and overconsumption of fast food, pizza, chips, etc? Esp when they add the habit of lounging around in front of the playstation.
Not that I'm picking on men, just that there's no need to single out women; it's silly. More *people* are becoming overweight, not more *women*.
Re the sex: maybe their partners have massive wobbly beer guts and that's why they're put off having sex with them!
One thing I always hated about Cosmo was that their 'real women, real bodies blah blah blah' platitudes largely consisted of "how to make your arse look smaller by buying these jeans" pieces. Who ever said it needs to look smaller/flatter/whatever? They feature so-called 'real women' and then less-than-subtly denigrate their bodies in an attempt to convince them to buy more shit they don't need.
Yeah, it does seem weird that AAP would cover a survey run by Cosmo. I particularly like the implication that good health - apparently both physical and mental - is almost exclusively an issue of weight loss.
Nice assumptions to start from: women started out fat and dumb, and are just getting more so. Could it be from sitting on their butts reading your tripe?
This article is truly very disgusting. Women have always been portrayed in the mainsteam media as something to revile or something to love depending on the way they look. The problem is that these magazines will tend to report what they know will sell. In a sense the magazines themselves are not so much of the problem, it is the environment they sell into is becoming increasingly alarming. Governments and indeed parents are still not doing enough to educate people to reject the stereotypes that the media feed on. The solution will never lie with the ACP's of the world but with both parents and educators motivating the next generation to reject such drivel. It has become so extreme that you only hope there is a revolution the next generation against this. Seems unlikely but you can only hope. Read an article on the weekend http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2944413.ece Not really sure of what to make of it. On one hand it is good to bring these issues out on the table, on the other hand seems to suggest that women are too weak to deal with aspiration and ambition and develop eating disorders etc because of an inability. Strange.
BIG BOTTOM, BIG BOTTOM, TALK ABOUT MUDFLAPS MY GIRL'S GOT 'EM. BIG BOTTOM DRIVE ME OUT OF MY MIND - HOW COULD I LEAVE THIS BEHIIIIIND?
i saw this article and got annoyed too, but forgot to post on it, so thanks!
i have felt much happier about my body image since i stopped reading "women's mags" altogether about ten years ago, after complete saturation during my teens.
if couples are "suffering" from lack of sex, it might have more to do with people being overworked, particularly women given they still do most of the housework/childcaring.
I saw a similar article in MX yesterday. It was all about some (no doubt highly scientific) survey which found that around 75% of men think that either Scarlett Johanssen or Beyonce have the perfect figure, whereas only 3% of men wanted to see Posh Spice naked. The logical conclusion to these findings? 'Obviously it's not men pressuring women to feel bad about their bodies - women's insecurities are all their own doing!!!'
Ah yes, because it's SO FUCKING EASY to resemble big fattie boombahs like Scarlett and Beyonce. WHAT A RELIEF.
xoxo nora
This is why people look at me funny when I tell them I don't think I need to loose weight.
I'm a big girl. I always have been (although not so big as I used to think I was) I would like to be fitter, since office work is not the most healthful of occupations. But it seems like it's OK to not be skinny, as long as you are ashamed and disguisted of yourself.
I happen to like my body a whole lot. It took me a while, but when I look at pictures of my (slimmer) self, who thought she was huge and had to wear baggy shirts to hide it, it makes me so sad, and also so determined to love what I've got.
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