Another nude sports figure pointlessly objectified on a magazine cover

[BainsBane]

183. No, it doesn't mean no woman ever felt herself too fat

or too thin before the invention of the camera, but it means that the onslaught of images influences many more of us more profoundly. I didn't even think there was a debate about something so basic. Adolescent eating disorders, for example, have multiplied in recent years.

Americans on average are getting fatter and the images are getting thinner. The gap between the ideal media image and the average American is becoming ever wider. Faludi dealt with this and her book is a couple of decades old. It is much more pronounced now.

Staying in shape isn't enough to be in those magazines. You have to be super young (except for the very rare, nearly un-aging women like Naomi Campbell and even she doesn't make SI anymore). All freckles, dimples, teeny areas of discoloration of skin are erased. Waists are trimmed, behinds narrowed, cleavage sometimes enhanced and sometimes minimized. Skin color is changed. Sometimes entire limbs are removed. There has been all kinds of news coverage about this sort of thing.

Anyway, you're dedicated to your position. I get it. I know I'm not going to change your mind.