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This article scared and gave hope to me. Of course I’ve heard of anorexic and I’ve seen it, but I’ve never felt the pain like I did in reading Mrs. Chernik’s first-hand account. But through all of the pain of eating and binging she persevered through it and that was what really got through to me. Instead of beating herself up for being anorexic and not being able to fix it, she found what was wrong with society and how they saw her as a woman. As women we try to live up to unrealistic standards thinking that that is what men want and what other women will be jealous of. It’s what society has done to us, it’s damaged us. Mrs. Chernick finally broke through this when she saw herself and “observed a woman held up by her culture as the physical ideal because she was starving, self-obsessed, and powerless, a women called beautiful because she threatened no one except herself,” (323) . Women are not suppose to be powerful and dominate of themselves, that’s what were told. Men are to be the superior and made to feel that way; maybe that is why they seem so confident in their bodies. “As long as society resists female power, fashion will call healthy women physically flawed,” (324). If only we could all learn to be “based on an image of a women warrior,” (324) and be happy as ourselves. -Morgan | This article scared and gave hope to me. Of course I’ve heard of anorexic and I’ve seen it, but I’ve never felt the pain like I did in reading Mrs. Chernik’s first-hand account. But through all of the pain of eating and binging she persevered through it and that was what really got through to me. Instead of beating herself up for being anorexic and not being able to fix it, she found what was wrong with society and how they saw her as a woman. As women we try to live up to unrealistic standards thinking that that is what men want and what other women will be jealous of. It’s what society has done to us, it’s damaged us. Mrs. Chernick finally broke through this when she saw herself and “observed a woman held up by her culture as the physical ideal because she was starving, self-obsessed, and powerless, a women called beautiful because she threatened no one except herself,” (323) . Women are not suppose to be powerful and dominate of themselves, that’s what were told. Men are to be the superior and made to feel that way; maybe that is why they seem so confident in their bodies. “As long as society resists female power, fashion will call healthy women physically flawed,” (324). If only we could all learn to be “based on an image of a women warrior,” (324) and be happy as ourselves. -Morgan | ||
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| + | I personally was touched by the article because even me and my sister have had a running joke that any girl who hasn't had an eating disorder has just failed at having one. Although it's just a joke and neither of us are really serious about it, it still would better for a girls self esteem to be a "size" 00 and never have to worry about anything like eating ever again than to be fat and ridiculed for the rest of your life. It sucks, but its' true. I felt most touched, (and most appalled by the society that I live in), by the statement "Gazing in the mirror at my emaciated body, I observed a woman held upby her culture as the physcial ideal because she was starving, self obsessed and powerless, a women called beautiful because she threatened no one except herself. Despite my intelligence, my education and my supposed manhattan sophistication I had believed all of the lies; I had almost given my life in order to achieve the sickly impotence that tis culture aggressively links with female happiness, love and success" (page 323-324). WHY is this? I don't understand how a male who isn't exactly the fittest of the fit can walk around without a shirt on (because it's hot) and have no qualms about the fact that his beer belly is hanging out, but most of my girl friends won't run outside in a sports bra because of the self consciousness attached with being shirtless (and because it substantially increases the amount of people who think it's okay to yell, holler, whistle and even take pictures of you.). It doesn't make sense. I'm not saying that the man should be self-conscious but at the same time. It's a ridiculous double standard that leads to terrible diseases and someone almost killing themselves to never be skinny enough. I consecutively run for at least an hour every day of my life, and I barely fit into society's standard for clothing sizes. Beauty isn't an eating disorder, or at least if it is, can there not be a double standard about it? --Ssellers | ||
==Organizing the Farm Workers, Jessie Lopez De La Cruz== | ==Organizing the Farm Workers, Jessie Lopez De La Cruz== | ||
