Is There Too Much Pressure To Be Thin?
The fashion industry is notorious for its anti-fat (and I use the term fat loosely) sentiment. There is an obscene amount of pressure placed on women within the realm of fashion to maintain almost impossible standards of beauty. Arguably, at the core of this beauty ideal is weight. It is practically mandatory that women in the fashion industry be thin, or frail to be more precise. Accordingly, we are repeatedly bombarded with images of pin-thin models, elegantly demonstrating to us what is supposed to be fashionable. Unfortunately, much of the message gets lost in translation. We often are unable to see past the charade that is fashion, and instead get sucked into it. Instead of realizing that it is the clothes that are fashionable, we absorb the entire image, including the obscenely thin nature of the women acting as hangers. At this point many of us get stuck in the frame of mind that it is just as in style to be skinny as it is to wear all black everything this fall. There is an unequivocally damaging amount of pressure being spewed from the fashion industry and it has embedded itself into mainstream culture.
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Singer Ciara just did a photo shoot with fashion heavyweight, VOGUE Magazine. In one of the early pics from the shoot, she is pictured standing visibly uncomfortable, in an overly cinched belt that makes her waist appear to be 5 inches in circumference (if that). While VOGUE is known for pushing the limits of their fashion spreads with very haute couture shoots, the image demonstrates nothing appealing. Ciara looks uncomfortable, and buy default, ridiculous. Her painful attempt at waist cinching is on display much more that the clothes pictured. While the premise of the fashion industry is to highlight clothes, accessories, trends etc., it appears that its influence is as strong on our bodies as it is on our wardrobes.
What are your thought? Is there too much pressure to be thin? And how much of this pressure is coming directly from the fashion world?
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Ysettle1
Being thin, and being beautiful are sadly being linked. And so many young girls think in order to be beautiful they have be a certain size. And this thought is having many of them doing dangerous things to themselves. Skinny doesn’t mean healthy, and fat doesn’t mean not healthy. Your health and well-being is all that should matter. This is a damn if you do, and damn if you don’t world. And the funny thing is, the people who pressure these models to lose weight are horrible in appearance themselves. We need to teach our young girls, and women in general to love yourself first and accept that no matter what the world thinks of you God loves you no matter what that’s all that should matter.
sylkiifeather
maybe he was once a fattie himself and have some personal issues…i dont know what his deal is about fat people…its beginning to make me wonder….
thickqt79
@LastMan…. I’ve seen some of you comments on other posts and may I just say that you are so rude. If you have a certain preference that’s fine,but you don’t have to insult others,or what they prefer to get your point across.
LastManStandingTall
There should be no pressure to be thin. If you are comfortable in your own skin, that’s all that matters…
If you fat girls want to eat yourselves into oblivion, I won’t stop you and tell you that you’re wrong. People should have the right to do with their bodies as they please so long as they’re not bothering others. It doesn’t bother me. In fact, I think it’s quite entertaining to watch you land-hippos pretend like you don’t care what people say about you.
Be happy with yourselves as you are. You’re no less healthy than thinner people, regardless of what the studies show. Besides, there are enough chubby-chasers to keep you all fat AND happy (LOL).