Again, I don't see a nearly naked woman here:
For all you other womens, I agree that sending the image of the way too thin woman isn't safe nor is it realistic for all the daughters out there. Granted my experience with eating disorders is very minimal, even after reading about them quite a bit I still have a hard time understanding them; but, I do understand the gravity of the situation and the problems they can cause. What I do see becoming a trend though is the 'accept your body' mentality, without the preclusion though of 'as long as its healthy'.
Its imperative to keep your body healthy, which gets seemingly overlooked in the Environment of Acceptance, but it seems like to me
beyond that, both male and female should make every effort to set
their own standards of self validation. How to draw that line though, I admit, I have no idea.
Miss Pants (
Hey, how are ya? Haven't talked at ya in a while), I'll agree that image issues impact both sexes. Granted its exactly opposite for many men as it is for women but that's neither here nor there. I'll speak from personal experience when I say that I have always seen myself as smaller than I am. I lifted quite heavily throughout college and no matter where I was in terms of muscle mass, I never saw it as big enough or where I wanted to be, or even where I was. I guess for me though even at my heaviest muscle mass, it was never unhealthy, and for that I am really lucky. Which to me seems to be the recurring theme,
healthy.
When someone pulls laws out of their @$$, all we end up with are laws that smell like sh!t. -Skippy