In 2004, CBS News featured a story on a waitress that was fired for being “too fat.” Misty Watts, a mother of three, a part-time college student, and a widow, worked for Ruby Tuesday for quite some time. She was named Employee of the Month days before being fired.
Her boss responded to why she was being fired with, “You don’t fit into your shirt, and you never will.”
Although this was five years ago, discrimination like this happens all of the time. Our generation has put such an emphasis on body weight, size, and the way you look it is ridiculous. You see this in Disney movies, when all of the lead “princesses” are slender. Young girls think in order to have true beauty you need to look like them, because they always get their perfect ending.
Have you seen many Barbie's that don’t have this same look? Or store mannequins? We need to have more of a focus on reality. The average size for an American woman is 5'4" and 163 pounds, but we aren’t putting this out there. Check this out for arguments about Barbie being too skinny.
Girls in middle school and high school resort to throwing up, not eating, or eating celery for dinner just so they can try to fit this image, and it is not healthy. There are people of all shapes, sizes, and colors. We need to recognize it and quit pretending it doesn’t exist.
I would so go to court for that if I was her!
ReplyDeleteInteresting extremes:
ReplyDelete1. The so-called "average woman" has a BMI of 24.9, meaning borderline overweight.
2. Barbie has a BMI of 13.7, meaning severely underweight.
People should lose weight for HEALTH reasons,not in order to look good. It's really very simple: for most of our evolution and before the advent of agriculture, we ate when food was available and we were physically very active. Remove these natural ingredients and the body gets wacked out.