Not surprised.

Recovered anorexic/bulimic of almost 10 years. I tried in-patient methods, did the outpatient thing... but the only thing that saved me was by miracle getting pregnant and then suddenly having a reason to take care of myself and my body.

That's a disorder now?

True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

naveline: True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

Maybe in some cases, but in mine I would say false. At my thinnest, I know guys didn't find me attractive because I was 'too thin' yet I wanted to be thinner. It had nothing to do with what they thought of me. Mine was more in line with what females thought of me, (more over, my mother). I wanted to show all of them that I had more control and was better than them. Why, I don't know. But it was more the competitive streak in me showing that I could go 5 days without eating and they couldn't. I could go running 3 times a day and others didn't have the discipline.

But they won out. I lost any kind of social life and became a total depressed introvert. Later found out what I was missing out on-- and it was a lot.

I call bullshiat on the whole thing. "Disordered eating"--as opposed to a life-threatening eating disorder, like bullemia or anorexia--is so loosely defined that nearly anybody who counts a calorie or watches their weight can be considered a disordered eater:

"Indeed, 67 percent of women surveyed (excluding those with diagnosed eating disorders) are trying to lose weight, mirroring the number who are overweight or obese."

When the definitions can range from starving to being pissed off over missing exercise, then the "disorder" is one that disease-of-the-month media doctors are pulling out of their ass.

naveline: True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

Mostly it's a response to female attitudes about the female body.

And we get yet another hard hitting expose from "The Today Show"

Not ragging on women with real problems.

Now cue the pics of cute ex GF's with a little meat on their bones

Kome: naveline: True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

Mostly it's a response to female attitudes about the female body.

Real eating disorders--and I'm still calling bullshiat--are caused by more than body image. They are caused by the moral importance we give eating/not eating, and what we assign to that. How many times have you seen threads in which fat people are considered to have "no character," or "willpower.?" Like TsuZi, a lot of people see not eating, or exercising more than others, as a test of strength. We place very little value on old-fashioned virtues like courage, loyalty, fortitude, etc., and sort of moved that over to pruning the size and shape of our bodies.

TsuZi: but the only thing that saved me was by miracle getting pregnant and then suddenly having a reason to take care of myself and my body.

That's the same reason I stopped riding motorbikes, stopped smoking and my wife losing half her weight

ciocia: Real eating disorders

As opposed to the fake ones?

--and I'm still calling bullshiat--

On what?

are caused by more than body image.

Source? I'm not saying it's impossible. It happens. But most cases of eating disorders involve some very large problem with body image.

I want you to go to your kitchen cabinets and throw open the doors! Then I want you to read the lables on your food packages! High fructose corn syrup is Diabetus! Trans fats is heart disease! Throw them out! Throw them out! I want you to yell as loud as you can, I'm mad as hell and I'm going to go to the next aisle over to find healthier foods!

I thought the dominant problem would be bulimia

TFA: "SELF's groundbreaking survey"

Pun intentional?

Put down the fork... FACE!

I think someone will get over it.

Jose628: I thought the dominant problem would be bulimia

Well, yeah, that has been my experience with a lot of women (and I do know a lot of women) who make themselves throw up or refuse food. A few even put on outrageous amounts of weight because they've given up on ever being pretty enough...

unfortunately, pretty enough to a lot of men (as warped by the media and here on fark ;) ) means the weight of an adolescent boy.

shanrick: I want you to go to your kitchen cabinets and throw open the doors! Then I want you to read the lables on your food packages! High fructose corn syrup is Diabetus! Trans fats is heart disease! Throw them out! Throw them out! I want you to yell as loud as you can, I'm mad as hell and I'm going to go to the next aisle over to find healthier foods!

IM MAD AS HELL, AND IM NOT GOING TO EAT IT ANYMORE!!!

love dat flick.

I am so tired of people trying to look a normal weight and eating healthy being accused of having some problem.

Girls...you're not beautiful unless we can see your ribs!

Kome: naveline: True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

Mostly it's a response to female attitudes about the female body.

Yes, this is the correct answer. Women are crazy.
They also be shopin'

biatches should have eating disorders that make them look good.

*cue one of those animated bits of people clapping*

Yes, a few people have eating disorders, the rest just need to pass on the second helping and farking exercise.

/just sayin'

gadian: Jose628: I thought the dominant problem would be bulimia

Well, yeah, that has been my experience with a lot of women (and I do know a lot of women) who make themselves throw up or refuse food. A few even put on outrageous amounts of weight because they've given up on ever being pretty enough...

unfortunately, pretty enough to a lot of men (as warped by the media and here on fark ;) ) means the weight of an adolescent boy.


the dominant paradigm is a holocaust against curvy women!

gotta love the fatty persecution complex.

//putting down the fork wont make you look 14 years old

TsuZi: I could go running 3 times a day and others didn't have the discipline.

I go running three times a day. Ok, it's only if I eat at Taco Bell but it still counts!

biatches should also know that if your fat no amount of nice cloths make you look good so spend that money at the gym and health food store ladies. Then be really slutty and give me a chance.

gadian: unfortunately, pretty enough to a lot of men (as warped by the media and here on fark ;) ) means the weight of an adolescent boy.

Uhhh... I take it you're new here. Ever heard the phrase "bag of antlers"? If anything, Farkers are usually hostile towards women the size of adolescent boys.

When I was glancing down the headlines, I thought this one started with "pie" and not "poll". Talk about a let down.

/Loves my pie
//Blueberry and Pecan mmmmmmm

ciocia: We place very little value on old-fashioned virtues like courage, loyalty, fortitude, etc., and sort of moved that over to pruning the size and shape of our bodies.

"America has lost its soul, now it's trying to save its body." - George Carlin on fitness

Of course women think that they have an eating disorder. When they are exposed to super thin celebrities, super thin models, diet drug advertisers telling them that they are fat (inorder to boost sales of a worthless diet pill) and people who are disgusted by fat people telling them to put down the knife and fork, eventually, they're going to get the message.

Not everyone is going to fit perfectly into that BMI scale. BMI isn't accurate anyways and shouldn't be a guideline to base your weight. People are different, some are healthier fat while some are healthier than thin people, and the human body has this way of making sure that it gets back to the weight that ~it~ needs to be at, not what society ~thinks~ it should be at, that's why diets don't work, diet pills don't work and people who go from fat to thin become fat again.

the voices in your head: Uhhh... I take it you're new here. Ever heard the phrase "bag of antlers"? If anything, Farkers are usually hostile towards women the size of adolescent boys.

FTFY.

Ribcages are the new tits.

i wish i could say that men are solely responsible for the unhealthy eating attitudes that a lot of women seem to have, but the truth is that (in my experience, at least) a woman will find no harsher critic than another woman. still, media doesn't help.

commie4christ: biatches should also know that if your fat no amount of nice cloths make you look good so spend that money at the gym and health food store ladies. Then be really slutty and give me a chance.

morans should also no that if you're dumb no amount of grammer will make you sound smart so spend that moneys at bookstores and colleges. Then be really retarded and GTFO.

buzzvert: the voices in your head: Uhhh... I take it you're new here. Ever heard the phrase "bag of antlers"? If anything, Farkers are usually hostile towards women the size of adolescent boys.

FTFY.

BIE or DIAF.

/GTFO was hurting people's feelings.

commie4christ: biatches should also know that if your fat no amount of nice cloths make you look good so spend that money at the gym and health food store ladies. Then be really slutty and give me a chance.

Did you get lost on your way to the Youtube comments section?

the most important thing for me in a biatch is a low self esteem.

A song, appropriate to this thread, that I like to do at Karaoke.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=89GB7z_Ogt0

Pair-o-Dice

Not sure what that has to do with anything, but I lol'd.

buzzvert: the voices in your head: Uhhh... I take it you're new here. Ever heard the phrase "bag of antlers"? If anything, Farkers are usually hostile towards women the size of adolescent boys.

FTFY.

Are you that vapid slut from ShinyShiny? GTFO, moran.

/I'm kidding
//you're probably right
///I still find it amusing though

GBmanNC:
Kome: naveline: True or false: It's a response to male attitudes about the female body.

Mostly it's a response to female attitudes about the female body.

Yes, this is the correct answer. Women are crazy.
They also be shopin'

Women. Crazy

/rims

Thanks to an education and social system that values appearance over intelligence, we will be treated to legions of dumbasses, with no self-esteem, sticking their fingers down their throats.

/YGWYPF.

Recovered anorexic/bulimic of almost 10 years. I tried in-patient methods, did the outpatient thing... but the only thing that saved me was by miracle getting pregnant and then suddenly having a reason to take care of myself and my body.

Ha! good one I havent laughed so hard in years....seriously though these people are just pathetic brian griffin said it best just put the fork down fatty.

TsuZi: Not surprised.

Recovered anorexic/bulimic of almost 10 years. I tried in-patient methods, did the outpatient thing... but the only thing that saved me was by miracle getting pregnant and then suddenly having a reason to take care of myself and my body.

Hey congrats on everything! Finding yourself, getting well, and having a pic with two cuties in it.

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: commie4christ: biatches should also know that if your fat no amount of nice cloths make you look good so spend that money at the gym and health food store ladies. Then be really slutty and give me a chance.

Did you get lost on your way to the Youtube comments section?

He's the opening act for Dulce.

/He wants you to try the veal

miss bliss: i wish i could say that men are solely responsible for the unhealthy eating attitudes that a lot of women seem to have, but the truth is that (in my experience, at least) a woman will find no harsher critic than another woman. still, media doesn't help.

You wish you could say that? Why? How would that be any better?

Oh, I get it. Sexism is okay when women do it...