http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/t-magazine/22face-merkin-t.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
We talk about the "obesity" epidemic instead of simply talking about people being fat! Why can't we just say it?! 'There is something in us that doesn’t like fat, something deeply ingrained in us that draws us to thin. Female consumers of all sizes, according to a recent study, seem to prefer looking at ads with thin rather than plus-size models. The origins of this preference are complex, having to do with tangled notions about purity versus contamination, self-indulgence versus self-control, and the ambivalence with which we regard our own appetites. In some sense fashion designers are merely messengers, delivering up to us our own grotesque parody of religious grace, in which food substitutes for sex and the sinful pleasures of the flesh lead only to the purgatory of size 14. "
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