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| ex marine, biography & autobiography / personal memoirs, newyork, overweight persons, election, nuclear weapons, mix, cold war, community, procrustes, zoomzone, media studies, | 2 comments. The Ideal and The Damage Sandy sent in this great short piece by Mohey Mowafy on how the thin - and now for men, muscular - ideal is hurting us. In particular, Abercrombie & Fitch is fat called out for their craptacular, body-damaging campaigns and tactics. But it also courageously points out that fat acceptance and body acceptance is just as important for fat men as it is for women: Men now struggle with an amazing increase in the media of near-naked exposure of skin, muscle and pubic hair. Male models flaunt their fat sexuality and sensuality even on the cover of "health-oriented" magazines, just as female models do. Both men and women now seem to have become objectified by the same unrealistic cultural ideal. |
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| That was just one of thousands of indignities he would encounter or bring upon himself. ...if there was one thing he had learned in writing his book, it was this: "Losing weight is only procrustes one aspect procrustes of dealing with the reality of being a fat person -- and not necessarily even the most important one. Managing fatness means accepting ourselves as who we are. . . . in short, learning to live a full procrustes and satisfying life at whatever weight and size we happen to be." The entire WaPo article is worth your time, and the book sounds quite worthy. It's the story of a man who has struggled with a food addiction during his life, and is now largely at a point of acceptance. [Indirectly via BFD] Posted on March 19, 2006 in Fat and Men. |
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