Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters

Human perfection is something which is basically never out of the media. Eating Disorders have entire documentaries dedicated to stuffy old people trying to understand them. And celebrities get sued for young girls dying. But nobody EVER talks about it openly.

Today I found out that some book has been written about WHY girls (and boys) feel the need to be perfect. What do you think drives girls to perfection? Here are some excerts from it.

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The normalacy of hating our bodies.

Thinness and beauty are prerequisites for perfection, which to today's young women appears to be the only road to happiness. Under that logic, women's bodies have become places where that drive for perfection - however self-destructive - gets played out.

There is a girl, right now, staring in a mirror in Des Moines, scrutinizing her widening hips. There is a girl, right now, spinning like a hamster on speed in a gym on the fifth floor of a building in Boston, promising herself dinner if she goes two more miles. There is a girl, right now, trying to wedge herself into a dress two sizes too small in a Savannah shopping mall, chastising herself for being so lazy and fat. There is a girl, right now, in a London bathroom, trying not to get any vomit on her aunt's toilet seat. There is a girl, right now, in Berlin, cutting a cube of cheese and an apple into barely visible pieces to eat for her dinner.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041807WA.shtml

Originally posted by miss_swann
There is a girl, right now, in Berlin, cutting a cube of cheese and an apple into barely visible pieces to eat for her dinner.

I found that funny.

Originally posted by miss_swann
Human perfection is something which is basically never out of the media. Eating Disorders have entire documentaries dedicated to stuffy old people trying to understand them. And celebrities get sued for young girls dying. But nobody EVER talks about it openly.

Today I found out that some book has been written about WHY girls (and boys) feel the need to be perfect. What do you think drives girls to perfection? Here are some excerts from it.

[B]Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The normalacy of hating our bodies.

Thinness and beauty are prerequisites for perfection, which to today's young women appears to be the only road to happiness. Under that logic, women's bodies have become places where that drive for perfection - however self-destructive - gets played out.

There is a girl, right now, staring in a mirror in Des Moines, scrutinizing her widening hips. There is a girl, right now, spinning like a hamster on speed in a gym on the fifth floor of a building in Boston, promising herself dinner if she goes two more miles. There is a girl, right now, trying to wedge herself into a dress two sizes too small in a Savannah shopping mall, chastising herself for being so lazy and fat. There is a girl, right now, in a London bathroom, trying not to get any vomit on her aunt's toilet seat. There is a girl, right now, in Berlin, cutting a cube of cheese and an apple into barely visible pieces to eat for her dinner.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041807WA.shtml [/B]

This is masochism, as she's doing it to increase her chances in the awe-so sexual competition. So she's starving herself (pain) for sex, and may not be as fertile as women who are fuller or having a "normal" amount of body fat.

And sometimes, women do this to each other too, as it's usually a female that puts another female "in her place" as far as looks are concerned, remember the movie "mean girls". I know that there are supportive females who aren't like this and would encourage a girl or another woman to just eat healthy and exercise for good health.

"There is a girl, right now, in a London bathroom, trying not to get any vomit on her aunt's toilet seat."

You'd think a girl in London would have the common sence to put the toilet seat up wouldn't you?

Originally posted by lord xyz
"There is a girl, right now, in a London bathroom, trying not to get any vomit on her aunt's toilet seat."

You'd think a girl in London would have the common sence to put the toilet seat up wouldn't you?

I found that to be funny too.

i enjoy this part:

" Even smart girls must be beautiful, even athletes must be feminine. Corporate CEOs, public intellectuals, and even accountants must be thin. Lorie, an 18-year-old from Portland, Maine, wrote, "Everyone wants to be skinny, because in life the skinny one gets the guy, the job, the love." A 10-year-old I interviewed in Santa Fe, N.M., broke it down for me even further: "It is better to be pretty, which means thin and mean, than to be ugly, which means fat and nice. That's just how it is.""

I've met mean women in all sizes. And I've seen the best and worst in all sizes.

Originally posted by Czarina_Czarina
i enjoy this part:

" Even smart girls must be beautiful, even athletes must be feminine. Corporate CEOs, public intellectuals, and even accountants must be thin. Lorie, an 18-year-old from Portland, Maine, wrote, "Everyone wants to be skinny, because in life the skinny one gets the guy, the job, the love." A 10-year-old I interviewed in Santa Fe, N.M., broke it down for me even further: "It is better to be pretty, which means thin and mean, than to be ugly, which means fat and nice. That's just how it is.""

I've met mean women in all sizes. And I've seen the best and worst in all sizes.

"10-year-old", that part is key.

Originally posted by Robtard
"10-year-old", that part is key.

yup, being a good role model for the young ones. food's over-rated, have you had any of that stuff lately? air and water seems to satisfy both dull and sharp pangs/cravings, what's a girl doing, going around craving an appetite, who does she think she is? And worse, feeding into it. Gotta teach'm girls early!

Originally posted by miss_swann
There is a girl, right now, in Berlin, cutting a cube of cheese and an apple into barely visible pieces to eat for her dinner.

Unlikely, it's 1 in the morning.

Then again Berlin is a big city.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Unlikely, it's 1 in the morning.

Then again Berlin is a big city.

Why are you awake, the smell of thinly sliced cheese wake you?

Originally posted by Robtard
Why are you awake, the smell of thinly sliced cheese wake you?

Originally posted by Bardock42
I don't sleep.

Don't be silly, all large, semi-intelligent, smelly beast sleep; usually in their own feces too.

Originally posted by Robtard
Don't be silly, all large, semi-intelligent, smelly beast sleep; usually in their own feces too.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I make other people sleep in my feces.

I question the amount of actual "sleeping" that takes place.

One thing I don't get about Belemia and Annorexia is that girls do it to better their appearance, right? Every case I've seen the girl looked worse after Annorexia or Belemia than before.

Anorexia DOES make you look better. Bulimia on the other hand doesn't because your teeth go funny. But Bulimics purge because they don't have enough will power to starve so it's as close as they can get to anorexia.

Originally posted by miss_swann
Anorexia DOES make you look better. Bulimia on the other hand doesn't because your teeth go funny. But Bulimics purge because they don't have enough will power to starve so it's as close as they can get to anorexia.

I think it is hard for girls specially and some boys to go alittle overboard on making our bodys perfect.In our world of models and thin people who we idol it is very easy now a days to slip into having an eating disorder then before.Why?No idea.jm

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I think it is hard for girls specially and some boys to go alittle overboard on making our bodys perfect.In our world of models and thin people who we idol it is very easy now a days to slip into having an eating disorder then before.Why?No idea.jm

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Y-you answered the why.

Originally posted by miss_swann
There is a girl, right now, spinning like a hamster on speed in a gym on the fifth floor of a building in Boston, promising herself dinner if she goes two more miles.

I have to admit - I am curious as to what exercises this is, it sounds like running, crossed with one of those spinning things they use when training Astronauts.