Psychology of People Who Grew Up in the 1960s

[valleyrogue]

63. There were plenty of so-called "overweight" kids then. Don't kid yourself.

Diet pill abuse was rampant back then, especially by women. The "diet" industry was HUGE then with products like Metrical and Ayds selling briskly.

Girls were pressured to be skinny and as small as possible so as to attract men and get married young, preferably right out of high school. They were fat-shamed by disgusting, judgmental, and shallow mothers to be thin and "marriageable." Both girls and boys were relentlessly bullied by their peers because their peers were raised with disgusting, shallow values to hate on people different from themselves.

I work in the schools and have for around three decades. There really isn't an "increase" of "overweight" kids in those schools than when I was a kid. What ISN'T tolerated is teasing, bullying, and shaming those kids.