tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post4319200180563727311..comments2023-05-16T07:11:23.125-07:00Comments on Preposterous Twaddlecock: Vicious Circle: A RantRayGartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09973158405226955253noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-67809908607599055682010-11-26T04:07:26.134-08:002010-11-26T04:07:26.134-08:00Fine blog.I like The Big Bang Theory.The show'...Fine blog.I like The Big Bang Theory.The show's initial pilot, developed for the television season, was substantially different from its current form.Clapboardhttp://bit.ly/clap_boardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-11065124761043294222010-11-12T19:24:01.622-08:002010-11-12T19:24:01.622-08:00Curves FTW!
Sad about Eliza and Angelina. Very sad...Curves FTW!<br />Sad about Eliza and Angelina. Very sad. :(LizzGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530766506281806604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-45986895718631591812010-11-11T00:53:52.196-08:002010-11-11T00:53:52.196-08:00And this is just another reason you always have a ...And this is just another reason you always have a place in my heart. ;)<br /><br />At one point in my life, I actually weighed what the health chart says someone my height should weigh. My doctor threatened to put me in the hospital because I looked awful, and my blood pressure, blood counts and everything were way off. But according to the charts, I should have been perfect.<br /><br />Two years and 80 pounds later, he pronounced me much healthier (and again, according to the chart, I was now morbidly obese...go figure).<br /><br />You know who was hot, but found Jenny Craig and now looks all kinds of wrong? Sara Rue. She used to be adorable. Now she's sharp and pointy. :-/Jodi Lee (Morrighan)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11255981908084653157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-17337829422383896062010-11-09T04:19:17.092-08:002010-11-09T04:19:17.092-08:00Well said Ray... as the father of a daughter makin...Well said Ray... as the father of a daughter making her way into puberty things like this have me effing terrified.<br /><br />And did you ever notice the cycle of things with these actresses?<br /><br />First the tabloids start making catty remarks that the actress is putting on weight.<br /><br />Then she loses the weight and they have headlines about her secret diet plan.<br /><br />Then she she gets too skinny they start talking about her tragic anorexia.<br /><br />Great article sir.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09492062472206579391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-84214961952986542582010-11-08T12:28:09.503-08:002010-11-08T12:28:09.503-08:00I have written about this a few times and it is ve...I have written about this a few times and it is very important. My day job as a school teacher puts me at the front line of a whole bunch of children who have no clue what it means to be healthy. We must keep the message out there or this is a problem which will only get worse.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911230635293326933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-34231248978479288272010-11-05T14:58:26.642-07:002010-11-05T14:58:26.642-07:00Thank you, Ray - for loving women because they do ...Thank you, Ray - for loving women because they do not look like boys. <br /><br />I think another rant could be produced for men who feel they must look like Atlas. I have always been creep-ed out by men who have way to much testosterone for them to be sane.Karen Leonardhttp://mitford.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-52078071246035341392010-11-05T14:55:42.652-07:002010-11-05T14:55:42.652-07:00That insight about wishing to escape to the safety...That insight about wishing to escape to the safety of a presexual state makes sense to me, Tenore Primo. As great as sex is, it can also be a mine field for both men and women. But the cultural pressures around sex are somewhat different for men and women. Women don't have to be particularly perceptive to observe the connection between men's eyeballs and their, uhm, other round body parts. (Not all men are that way, of course, and love can change a man's perceptions about what is sexy, just as it does for women). To the extent that society puts such a high premium on changing fads of "perfection in the female form," how a woman looks becomes important whether she does or does not want a lot of sexual attention. Whereas, most men have figured out their great good luck in women not necessarily holding them to such a strict standard physically. This cultural double standard would surely help account for why there are far fewer men with excessive thinness due either to a physiological eating disorder or a social one.Steven Spruillhttp://web.me.com/stevenspruillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-87972088750742199882010-11-05T14:01:25.301-07:002010-11-05T14:01:25.301-07:00Here's a little speculation to ponder. Because...Here's a little speculation to ponder. Because a girls' libido is fixed before puberty, perhaps the "skinny" trend is influenced by dissatisfaction of their bodies because they have changed from their pre-pubescent state. They subconsciously want to return to the shape they had as pre-teens. I think the obsession many women have about breast size could also be traced to this stage. Most pre-teen girls seem to envy the larger breasts of older girls and women. Thus, they get fixated on large breasts. As adults, they like to pretend they are enlarging them because men like them, but I think that is just a smoke screen for their hidden fixation.Tenore Primohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06764356901801429933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-78565081765106123982010-11-05T13:36:56.326-07:002010-11-05T13:36:56.326-07:00I remember when Sir Mixalot came out with "Ba...I remember when Sir Mixalot came out with "Baby Got Back." A fresh faced middle-school girl at the time, I looked at that video praising the glory of full figures buttucks and thought, "Damn straight." <br /><br />I actually did end up anorexic in High School. Despite loving my ass, I was easily convinced that looking like a walking lollypop was ragingly sexy. WTF?Fox Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05487359877190292039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-6492151863192770932010-11-05T13:30:35.107-07:002010-11-05T13:30:35.107-07:00You've done an important service today, Ray. ...You've done an important service today, Ray. Eating patterns and practices that cause unhealthy thinness (bulemia, anorexia) can be from a very serious illness. The causes for the clinical syndrome are mysterious and complex, but more is being learned all the time and help is available. <br /><br />The case you make with this blog, Ray, is that there is a behavior outside of that illness that is unhealthy and entirely voluntary--unless we want to theorize that becoming a Hollywood star causes eating disorders (a proposition quickly defeated by adequate counterexamples). A powerful element of this tendency in otherwise healthy people is driven by a combination of faddishness and poor self-image or self-esteem. Unless you had an idyllic childhood (and even then) nearly all humans, as they grow up, acquire a voice inside them that is not their friend. The inner voice can originate in hectoring parents, bullying classmates or unkind siblings whom we have internalized and made our own. For a woman, looking at glamorized images of thin women in certain magazines or on TV and in the movies can give ammunition to such self-hating inner narratives. <br /><br />The important thing first is to recognize this voice as being an unhealthy part of your own psyche. When it says, "You're so fat," if another part of you knows that's normatively false (you're less than ten percent overweight) tell that voice to shut up and sit down. Even if you're more than ten percent overweight, that voice, if it says anything other than "my dear, you're a terrific person no matter what, but you'd be healthier and breathe easier if you lost some weight" is never going to make you thin; only miserable. When the voice is punitive or self-mocking, you need to beat it down whenever it pipes up. For those who will stay alert for the voice and tell it to shut up over and over again whenever necessary, that can be enough in many cases. When you dispute the voice inside you that is not your friend, it gets weaker, but you have to stay on it, do it every time that part of yourself that doesn't like you jumps on you until the self-hating refrain gets too weak to hear. <br /><br />If "the voice" is always talking about your weight, and telling it to shut up each time you hear it doesn't work, and you're getting thinner and thinner and friends or parents are worried, please get professional help, because it could save your life.Steven Spruillhttp://web.me.com/stevenspruillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-67214062173178670852010-11-05T11:28:44.596-07:002010-11-05T11:28:44.596-07:00Thank you, Meester Garton.
As a (now semi-curvy) ...Thank you, Meester Garton.<br /><br />As a (now semi-curvy) anorexic (like addicts, once an anorexic, always an anorexic... :::sigh:::), who at one point in my late 20s weighed in at 80 pounds, and was ambulanced to the ER because my heart stopped beating, it is beyond heartening to read your words and realize that not everyone (male or female), believes that women should be just skin and bones....<br /><br />I think I just fell in love with you a wee bit.LilBiGrrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540269509617525376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-3552145815151225492010-11-05T11:20:34.151-07:002010-11-05T11:20:34.151-07:00With the press and Health organizations spouting t...With the press and Health organizations spouting the 42% of Americans are obese, that number will likely grow... seems anorexic and bulimic women are among the very few that are taking those statistics to task.<br /><br />My morbidly obese neighbor sure isnt'... I just wish she'd stop throwing her empty soda cans and snack wrappers by my porch.Strychnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1293492602513569232.post-69291573190494272622010-11-05T10:47:27.947-07:002010-11-05T10:47:27.947-07:00I haven't seen Dushku since Dollhouse was on t...I haven't seen Dushku since <i>Dollhouse</i> was on the air. That'd be a shame if she's succumb to an eating disorder.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675220785164388203noreply@blogger.com