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Seriously I hate when people go on this rant, to assume that people who desire thinness are simply vain is extremely ignorant.

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Use working out for guys as an analogy. A lot of guys work out to "boost self-confidence", as opposed to just plain looking good for girls. But implicit in this assumption is the belief that being muscle-bound is unquestioningly positive, and also assumed is the belief that muscles=masculinity=getting girls.

So girls who starve themselves may not be doing it directly to please men, but their underlying assumption is that thinner=better, and part of what makes it better is that they think guys prefer 75-pound girls.

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Seriously I hate when people go on this rant, to assume that people who desire thinness are simply vain is extremely ignorant.

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Use working out for guys as an analogy. A lot of guys work out to "boost self-confidence", as opposed to just plain looking good for girls. But implicit in this assumption is the belief that being muscle-bound is unquestioningly positive, and also assumed is the belief that muscles=masculinity=getting girls.  

So girls who starve themselves may not be doing it directly to please men, but their underlying assumption is that thinner=better, and part of what makes it better is that they think guys prefer 75-pound girls.

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No, they are not delusional and do not think that guys prefer 75-pound girls. Sometimes they starve themselves to test their strength, because they see eating as a sign of weakness, to rid themselves of sin and wrongness, to punish themselves, or because they've simply developed an obsessive-compulsive fear of food. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

Post edited at 1:26 am on July 28, 2008 by Its Bearsy Bitch

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there is a god

and his name is ijustdontknow christ

THANK YOU!!!! i ALWAYS try to tell people that i'm fit, not skinny. and when i do, they rudely roll their eyes at me and say "whatever, girl" you're skinny.

i'm a tiny person and i have muscle. meaning, if someone picked a fight with me, i wouldn't snap like a twig. cus i eat right and i often work out. but people who are bigger like to make themselves feel better by calling me skinny and ignoring my proclamation of being fit.

so annoying and so rude

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"theres a difference between being skinny and fit"  

THANK YOU!!!! i ALWAYS try to tell people that i'm fit, not skinny. and when i do, they rudely roll their eyes at me and say "whatever, girl" you're skinny.  

i'm a tiny person and i have muscle. meaning, if someone picked a fight with me, i wouldn't snap like a twig. cus i eat right and i often work out. but people who are bigger like to make themselves feel better by calling me skinny and ignoring my proclamation of being fit.  

so annoying and so rude

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Post edited at 1:37 am on July 28, 2008 by maxxie

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Sometimes they starve themselves to test their strength, because they see eating as a sign of weakness, to rid themselves of sin and wrongness, to punish themselves, or because they've simply developed an obsessive-compulsive fear of food. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

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Yes, a test of strength BASED ON WHAT THEY PERCEIVE TO BE SOCIETY AND MEN'S PREFERENCE.

You don't see as many girls "testing their strength" by trying to be the fattest, or the most muscular, or the highest-earning. Coincidence? Nope.

I think that is wrong too. As long as you are healthy, it shouldn't matter what shape you have, small or big.