"the beauty myth"

[woods]

I read in a newspaper today "According to Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, there's a patriarchal conspiracy to keep women dieting so they'll be too weak and hungry to compete with men" :crackup: Maybe some of you have heard of this book, but I haven't, and I refuse to look into it, so have fun with some replies to this Bvllshyt.

Here's my two cents:

#1 Do you think there is a small possibility that the author is just a "tad overweight?"

#2 She may be onto something: Maybe the reason women are so bytchy is because they're starving to death!

#3 If anyone here lives somewhere where fat chicks are competitive and hard to deal with, and skinny chicks are passive and obedient; do you need a roommate???

 

[slaog]

I read in a newspaper today "According to Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, there's a patriarchal conspiracy to keep women dieting so they'll be too weak and hungry to compete with men" :crackup:

Is this a serious article? Anti-man anyway. I thought dieting was supposed to improve health and make people look better.

 

[woods]

The article I read this in, was not agreeing with this at all, and it was written by a woman. It was in an advice column, that some fat chick wrote in to. The author took our side, saying it's actually smart women that skinny-up so they can get a decent man. It's the book that has the man hate shyt.

 

[ketostix]

Is this a serious article? Anti-man anyway. I thought dieting was supposed to improve health and make people look better.

Yeah really, women like these act like if a man wants a female to be at least not more than say 10lbs over her ideal/healthy weight, then it becomes "men want starved women who are stick figures!". What she's really saying is men should accept overwieght and obese women as the model of beauty. Nuts. Most men are not attracted to women who are too skinny and biologically unhealthy and less fertile.