Monday, November 29, 2010
A different kind of supermodel
We've been talking in class about the Barbie doll as an ideal of "perfection". Here is a very different kind of model. As the video shows, Donna has many fans on the internet and regards herself as a kind of super (or super-sized) model. She would like to reach a thousand pounds. She believes that just as there are some who are attracted to super-thin women, so there are those who like their women large. Is beauty, then, truly a kind of social or individual construction ("beauty in the eye of the beholder"), or has the concept been emptied of meaning by this full-figure example? [thanks, Freddie, for contributing this link]
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I found this a little disturbing because she wants to be bigger. How can someone get to this weight? I don't have anything against bigger people because I have a cousin that is very big and I would never change how she is. I think it is wrong that she thinks she eats healthy by having a bunch of vegetables in her meal. If she was eating healthy she would not be that size. The other thing is that I do agree in that some people do like heavier women and not those supermodel sizes. I think it depends on the person because some see those skinny models as horrible.
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ReplyDeleteThis is just downright dangerous. Being over weight or obese is extremely detrimental to ones health even if they are fine with it psychologically. She could die before her daughter is old enough to graduate from high school, all because this fat woman thinks she has found her niche. So instead of trying to lose weight and be a healthy role model she is destroying herself and teaching her daughter it's okay to adhere to perverted male fantasies despite the health factor. Just gross.
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