New dorky pic of me!

Archon burbled across the ether:
revek wrote:

Yah. That and your chest. You didn't like your chest-- too doughy
you said.

The only thing I said about my chest was too little muscle. Never
doughy (I don't even know what you mean by doughy).

Hmmm. My memory must be playing tricks again. Doughy as in like raw
dough. Soft and unformed-- much like your definition of chubby.


Ah, that explains a lot. The "your fatness is costing me" thing.

Not really costing me, but costing society.

Society is made up of people.

I wouldn't get money back
if nobody were fat, but the money could be spent on other health
problems that are not selfinflicted, such as the mental problems that
makes some people fat.

Could be. But not necessarily so.

It's free to have your loose belly skin
removed, but you must pay thousands for treating acne.

That is not right. But at least it's better than over here. Over here
you pay thousands for both.

Real skinniness is unhealthy

Yes, but not the kind of skinniness that we are talking about here,
such as Garner, Spike and me.

Then it ought to be differentiated by some other word, such as
slenderness.

People who eat a lot can be pretty
skinny, even more so than these people.

I hear Calista Flockheart is natrually skinny and doesn't diet or
anything. Eats like a horse and is a size zero. Still, someone that
thin needs to see a doctor.


I don't blame the media for causing the disease, but they do
excaberate (sp?) the situation a *lot*. Some people can't handle
the stress of society's perfectionism and this is one of the ways
that those people cope (badly I admit)-- obsessing on their weight
or overcontrolling their food. The media *could* be used to promote
healthy ideas about body image, self worth, etc, but it's too easy
to twist people up in knots over body odor or dandruff to make a
buck or two.

Even if this makes some of the people choose the anorexia way,

I don't think it's one thing that makes a person "choose" that, but a
whole host of little straws that end up breaking the camel's back.
Media is just one-- but one that is everywhere, magazines, billboards,
tv...movies even. And they have the wherewithall to do this without
bankrupting themselves and garner a little positive public opinion too,
so why don't they?

they
would have turned to other selfdestructive insanities instead, if
there was no media, or try to blow up their school.

I don't think so. Blowing up a school is outward directed, even if the
'stewing' takes a while to build up to critical levels. Anorexia is
inward directed. Personality plays a large part in what direction
behavours take and they're pretty consistant. Even serial killers fit a
rigid pattern that they don't deviate from.*

*mini rant follows: which is why I hate the movie seven so much. It
was perfect textbook and a really great movie right up til the end when
they needed a big twist and broke the character's behavioral patterns
completely out of any relation to the type of serial killer he was.
spit :rant over.

Why yes, I spend a lot of recreational time reading about serial
killers, not just 'true crime' but the really odd stuff like the
psychology and profiling. I find it fun and relaxing, why do you ask?

Ok, ya'll can go back to your regularly scheduled ranch dipped veggies
now.

--
revek www.geocities.com/tanirevek/LowCarb.html lowcarbing since June
2002 5'2" 41 F 165+/too much/size seven petite please
Never have I seen a word as accurate as politics. Poly meaning many,
and tic being a blood-sucking thing.