Title this thread for me again

[CensoredAlso]

Yeah, it took me a while to realize my dad meant well. He went around it the wrong way, but in reality, his side of the family is a bit on the heavier side, so he was just watching out for me. He just did a bad job of expressing it. And I did start eating/exercising for me.

Oh believe me, I understand, lol. Parent/Child dynamics can be quite amusing. In retrospect of course, hehe.

 

[D'Snowth]

Another thing that's been killed for me too is that now, I don't even know what to say in regards of a woman; back in the day, the term "curvey" was pretty much used to describe a woman who had an exceptionally "nice" figure (the old "hourglass" shape), not only that, but I was in school once too, I had health classes and such, I've learned about anatomy and whatnot, I was told, "Women have curves, and men don't." NOW, thanks to media jarheads like these, the term "curvey" has now been made to be a "polite" way to say a woman is fat (ala "skinny vs. curvey").

Slightly off topic, but still related is the fact that now Charlie Sheen has single-handely changed the use of the term "goddess" as we know it, taking it from basically being a step above "gorgeous" (which was a step above "beautiful", above "pretty", above "adorable", above "cute"), to describing live-in hooker girlfriends.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Slightly off topic, but still related is the fact that now Charlie Sheen has single-handely changed the use of the term "goddess" as we know it, taking it from basically being a step above "gorgeous" (which was a step above "beautiful", above "pretty", above "adorable", above "cute"), to describing live-in hooker girlfriends.

Don't encourage him!

 

[Kiki]

Wow, just wow. I know this thread is oldish but it's really interesting, and everyone's thoughts are really insightful. That said, the Miss America thing is awful, but I've never really been a fan of beauty standards myself, let alone pageants focusing on such things. I'm a very body-positive person, so I've never focused too much on my appearance in the way of weight as such, but I try to be healthy to some extent. In honesty, I embrace the fact that everyone comes in shapes and sizes. <3 The 'real women have curves' thing does annoy me a little, though. While I understand what they mean by saying that, and I like the body-positive message, you can still be skinny (/even/ unhealthily skinny, which I don't like and is pretty off-putting in my books) and be a 'real woman', you know? I hate the message it gives out to women, though. 'Plus-size models' are, like, my weight and less from what I've seen, though there's exceptions.

Going to an all-girls' school, I hear people talking about weight... quite a bit. Luckily, there's not a massive focus on the whole, 'oh, I'm sooo fat' thing. I've experienced a few things in the past with some of my friends (in particular, ones that weighed a fair bit more than me) jumping to the conclusion that I had an eating disorder (their words, not mine), basically because I ate less than them and exercised more, and they were really iffy about this. Although I'm not one to go on about my weight, I am considered underweight according to the BMI (which is often a stupid measure anyway), and I weigh a lot less than I look (probably because I don't have much muscle- lol!), and these friends of mine have often called me scrawny (and trust me, if you've seen me, I'm /really/ not xD), and found it 'icky' because you can very, /very/ vaguely see my ribs, and when I would tell them that what they were saying wasn't accurate at all, they would act as though I thought I was overweight, dissecting everything I'd say under a microscope, there really is no middle ground. Luckily, my parents never gave me crap about my weight but a few people did when I was younger, and that was a little annoying because you're more impressionable and such, but I couldn't care less really at present (for example, I never look at the sizes on clothes, I don't know what my size is in anything). xD
I'm sorry about your experiences with your dad, Julia. D: <3

 

[Drtooth]

Slightly off topic, but still related is the fact that now Charlie Sheen has single-handely changed the use of the term "goddess" as we know it, taking it from basically being a step above "gorgeous" (which was a step above "beautiful", above "pretty", above "adorable", above "cute"), to describing live-in hooker girlfriends.

Winning!

There is an obesity epidemic in this country. The thing is people are being encouraged to go to completely the other extreme as opposed to average weight.

There IS something wrong, no doubt about it. But I find the term "obesity epidemic" a loud, annoying media term... I like it to the "Are your kids huffing household cleaners to get HIGH?" reports. it makes it genuinely think that this is the most horrible thing in the world and we have to stop it five months ago. All without rationalization, planning, thought, and competence.

The only things I hear coming out of everyone's mouth is stop showing junk food commercials during kid's programming (as if ads for home bladder control for seniors is a better thing for kids to watch... "ooh, Gran'ma just can't hold it in" that's not going to inspire immaturity) like it's going to solve a multi-layered serious problem.

At the risk of listing them all, the main thing is everyone is too dang lazy. We're over worked, over stressed, or just don't care...there's too much pressure, why would we want to add to anything by moving? We can't even bother going out to do anything anymore since the computer does everything BUT turn into a toilet. Everything is too easy and NO ONE wants to see that. Every next generation gets a little less healthy because less work needs to be done. Seriously... in reality, the Jetsons would all be 400 pounds or more.

 

[GonzoLeaper]

Seriously... in reality, the Jetsons would all be 400 pounds or more.

Hahahaha- I just pictured someone like CollegeHumor or some such site making a video of "The Jetsons in Reality". That would be funny.
But as Doc Brown said in "Back to the Future Part 3"- "Of course, people still walk and fun. But for exercise and entertainment."
"Run for fun? What kinda fun is that?"

 

[D'Snowth]

The 'real women have curves' thing does annoy me a little, though. While I understand what they mean by saying that, and I like the body-positive message, you can still be skinny (/even/ unhealthily skinny, which I don't like and is pretty off-putting in my books) and be a 'real woman', you know?

Again, it's being taken out of context...

The point that's being driven across is NOT using the term "curves" as a now-politically correct/polite way of refering to a woman as fat, but rather the fact that it's just the way it is... curves are curves, and as I mentioned before, when I was in school, I had a teacher who said these words of wisdom: "Women have curves, men don't". Plain and simple. Not to get religious or anything, but that's the way God designed humans: He designed women with those curves, like that old saying, "Hips for carrying children"... that's why He gave women those curves, to carry children, because women also give birth, men don't, we just stick around for the fun part (though I'm hoping any future wife of mine uses any kind of contraceptive she can, 'cause I don't want kids, lol).

 

[Drtooth]

Hahahaha- I just pictured someone like CollegeHumor or some such site making a video of "The Jetsons in Reality". That would be funny.

Ah yes... College Humor dot com... where if it was used 6 years ago on Family Guy and 3 years ago on Robot Chicken, it's still fresh to us.

But Harvey Birdman did a similar joke, though... the Jetsons came from the future to sue the past and they were unable to walk under their own power... they looked the same and all... but enough of that. Convenience= laziness...

The point that's being driven across is NOT using the term "curves" as a now-politically correct/polite way of refering to a woman as fat, but rather the fact that it's just the way it is... curves are curves, and as I mentioned before, when I was in school, I had a teacher who said these words of wisdom: "Women have curves, men don't". Plain and simple.

I blame a certain Muppet Show Guest Star (as good as she was) for that. She brought in the look like an overgrown underfed 9 year old boy look. The thing is, too many girls think that the hips are fat when that's just the way the bones go.

And then there was heroine chic. They looked like... well... this and This... I'm not a fan of girls with bones jutting out their skin... it's disgusting. I mean, beauty is skin deep, no need to show us what's under that stuff... it's icky... and smelly.

I don't like girls with quantum singularities for waistlines, and I don't know why everyone finds that attractive.