Just some other thoughts, some directly related, some not.
I'm not sure in what context you mean when you say,
"any idea of what it's like to live with the feeling of
being constantly hungry?"
No, I don't. I rarely ever have the feeling of being
hungry, and I wish to felt that way more often.
No, I have never gone on a crash diet. My ongoing plan
to lose about 25 lbs is to eat less. A little less all
the time. I am having some success but not much.
Losing weight, in my opinion must be coupled with some
kind of exercise. I have not been doing much of that
lately, either.
As to the other issues, which you put in a context, I
would say, of exploitation of women, I would have no
comment, except that I don't see anything changing
there, short of the continuing campaign hi-lighting
violence against women, or domestic abuse. That has
become a more hi profile issue, deservedly so, of course.
To put a damper on girls aspiring to win beauty
contests, or become cheerleaders, I think is a
misdirected objective that can detour into political
correctness issues, which can also become extreme.
By the way, do you regularly feel genuinely hungry?
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Steve, leaving aside for a moment how disgusting fat
shaming…or shaming of any kind is... have you ever gone
on a crash diet? Do you have any idea of what it’s
like to live with the feeling of being constantly
hungry? Not to mention whatever plastic surgery they
feel they have to get for their one brief moment in the
sun.
Now maybe you could say she was being deceptive by
accepting the role knowing she most likely couldn’t
keep up appearances. But when someone’s “investment”
is built on someone else denying themselves, for a
whole year, basic sustenance, isn’t that already a
major deception? That they all do to one extent or
another and that seems to be just fine with Trump, the
“owner” of the contest? And isn’t it time to start
wondering when we’re going to finally retire and put to
bed, permanently, such horrendous examples of fake
femininity, fake male dominance, fake ideals of beauty,
all built on these very young and most likely desperate
women doing things to their bodies that used to be the
stuff of science fiction.
The*whole thing* is a sick and twisted deception. She
most likely just started eating normally again, or
however normally you can after doing whatever it is
someone feels they need to do to whittle themselves
down to a stick.
Not to mention there's something truly disgusting about
watching someone like Trump cavort and play mind games
with these basically starving young women, all vying
for his attention, while he goes back to the next
lavish buffet as he decides which of them to make his
plaything for the next year.
Sal
On Sep 29, 2016, at 10:57 PM, steve.sundur@...
<mailto:steve.sundur@...> [FairfieldLife]
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
if you are the winner of a Ms. Universe contest and
then you go on to gain 60 lbs., I'm not exactly sure
you can say you are fulfilling the obligation for that
title. There is a certain expectation of physical
appearance that I would think would go along with that
role.
Now, I would say that you should not ridicule or demean
that person, but I can understand if the owner of the
contest might think, WTF?
