[Brandon]

Originally Posted by Marguerite

I would disagree with that.

I see where you're coming from. We are told Anorexia is a terrible disease and that having it is BAD BAD BAD. We are also told that we must love people in every shape and size, and not to judge because someone is overweight. That just makes them 'curvy' or a 'real woman'.

Both are true in a sense. Anorexia IS a terrible disease, and we shouldn't judge people because they are overweight.

The thing is, just because we are supposed to recognize anorexia as evil and accept those who are obese for who they are, doesn't mean we do it.

An Anorexic person, while facing a boat load of personal problems and mental health issues is usually more likely to be accepted by general society. They are less likely to be taunted or laughed at.

Put it this way: Being 'stick thing' is admirable. Being 'ugly and fat' is not.

It's the end game vs the journey to get there. Nobody is saying 'get fat, be obese'. Nobody is trying to be fat. It's just that everyone is saying 'stay inside, watch this' or 'eat this, supersize that' or 'play sport on the playstation, not outside!'

On the other end of it, nobody (bar nutties like this guy of course) is saying 'don't eat!' or 'throw up your food!'. They are saying 'be a size zero! It's the only way to be beautiful!'

It's a wonder their are so many healthy people in a culture that tells us to consume, consume, consume, but being fat is disgusting and that if you're not thin you're just a pathetic, ugly nobody.

I've actually heard quite different when it comes to being a "stick thing." None of my friends admire "stick people" because we have this mentality that if we want to have sex with a woman who looks like a stick, we could just have sex with a dead body. I have never seen or heard someone admiring stick people who aren't suffering with anorexia themselves. But that could just be a personal opinion. I would understand admiring people who are "thin" in general but not specifically people who are too thin to the point that they could be snapped in half like twigs.