I'm sitting here thinking and thinking about that article but really, there is no generous way to look at it.
She gained three stone which is, what, 42 pounds? If she was "willowy" before, that makes her no more than 160 pounds now. No way her health is affected, not at that age. Just ... a softened jawline and a need for better-fitting jeans. I mean, who hasn't seen a pretty girl who weighs 160 pounds? Even with society's non-fat-accepting standards?
I'm still trying to understand the point of the article - complaining about the fact that there are no good schizophrenia drugs? That's part of it, but really, it seems to be about the fact that she's no longer willowy and doesn't care and that bothers the authors. That blows me away. Talk about a messed up perspective.
And then the way they write off the mentally ill population as being unattractive and how tragic it is that such a pretty girl was there at all; how unusual that is. grrrr.
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Date: 2006-02-09 10:50 pm (UTC)She gained three stone which is, what, 42 pounds? If she was "willowy" before, that makes her no more than 160 pounds now. No way her health is affected, not at that age. Just ... a softened jawline and a need for better-fitting jeans. I mean, who hasn't seen a pretty girl who weighs 160 pounds? Even with society's non-fat-accepting standards?
I'm still trying to understand the point of the article - complaining about the fact that there are no good schizophrenia drugs? That's part of it, but really, it seems to be about the fact that she's no longer willowy and doesn't care and that bothers the authors. That blows me away. Talk about a messed up perspective.
And then the way they write off the mentally ill population as being unattractive and how tragic it is that such a pretty girl was there at all; how unusual that is. grrrr.
I'm just amazed. Thanks for linking.