I am a very short person so weight does not distribute well in my body. Anything above 52kgs and I look like a widescreen TV — as my brother calls me. I’ve being 58kgs you see, and the consensus was “lose weight”. Maybe I am light-boned. :)

Says who? The BMI puts you at a max. healthy weight of 58, and the BMI is pretty much accepted as the best way to determine stuff like this.

>Well, get out more. Exercise.

Bleh. :D

Eh, where did I say you didn’t? It was just a summation - “so, in the end” - as in, we agree.

I am ~45 lbs above my correct weight for my height Thom, not just “a few lbs�. I am on a health risk. Ask for details before you write that. ;-)

Well, get out more. Exercise.

Anyway, you’re 1.52m, right? That means you should weigh anywhere between 40 and 58kgs. 45lbs is 20kgs. You sure you weigh 78kgs?

And btw, the fine print should exist NOT because “women feel insecure” (give me a break), but because of legal issues that have to do with bounds of journalism. It’s a legal problem, not an ethical one.

Thom, learn to read. I wrote above that there SHOULD be a fine print for pictures that were retouched.

>A few lbs over a target weight

I am ~45 lbs above my correct weight for my height Thom, not just “a few lbs”. I am on a health risk. Ask for details before you write that. ;-)

And how will people know it doesn’t exist if nowhere it is said that pictures are edited or not?

Exactly. So, in the end, ways of knowing if pictures are real or fake are needed, and hence, my government needs to step up and mandate it.

I am a stronger person than this.

Great, so am I. But, ehm, what about all the dieting? A few lbs over a target weight for your height is nothing to be afraid about, so what is it? I thought you were stronger than that?

>pressure exerted by society and the media on women

I am sorry, but I have never felt that “pressure”. I don’t CARE about what the media wants. I am ABOVE the “media” and “fashion”.

>to comply to a beauty image that simply does not exist

Exactly. It does not exist. It’s all in the minds of the people. And I will NOT comply to something that does not exist. It’s as simple as that.

I am a stronger person than this.

You obviously have absolutely not even the slightest idea about the psychological implications of stuff like this. I have never seen so much ignorance all crammed up into one single paragraph.

This has nothing to do with “a women looking better then them and feeling insecure because of it”. This has to do with the pressure exerted by society and the media on women to comply to a beauty image that simply does not exist - because it is achieved by manipulating imagery.

My mother has had one of her breasts removed because of the cancer, and this has had a major impact on her psychologically. Even though her first thought was “hey, it doesn’t matter”, she now does feel the implications of it - majorly. Yes, it makes her feel unpretty and insecure - and now she will have a reconstructive surgery done. So, according to you, her genes must die out? Your logic, as usual, is black and white, and only the way YOU feel about yourself is acceptable, and everyone else must conform to that - or die out.

Seriously. See the grey for once.

As for having women feeling insecure just because another woman looks better than them, well let them feel insecure, and hopefully die out of insecurity, so their stupid genes don’t survive in the human gene pool. Let Darwin work his magic baby.

I am very short, I am fat, I have an ugly tooth (it’s out of alignment, and if you see me smiling from a specific side, it looks like I have no tooth there at all). And guess what: I don’t give a f*ck, neither I try to hide it by not smiling. It didn’t stop me from finding and getting married to a much prettier person than I am too. I have zero complex about my appearance, neither I try my best to look good. And all has worked out just fine, so why feel insecure?