event 2

Last Friday, I attended an interesting event, “what’s wrong with fat? Author-meet-critics”. Although I have not read the book, the topics the speaker discussed during the event attracted me a lot and make me think more about the condition of those who is fat.

During the event, professor Saguy talked a lot about the confusion and poor situation fat people meet in their life. For example, fat people may be laughed at by others and they have some disadvantages for social work due to high weight. He also claimed a point that surprised me that a little bit overweight is good for our health but not obesity.

Nowadays, people become more and more concerned about their weight, especially women. Thinness becomes one of the most important requirements for a beauty. However, these cause a big problem that the number of people who have Anorexia nervosa increases a lot. Many of these problems start with a restriction of food eating in order to lose weight. To take an example, a Brazilian model died due to nervosa because models should strictly control their weight. More than that, more and more people even chose to do plastic surgery to form a nice body. As we learned in lecture 4, plastic surgery is an artificial change of human body and more or less will cause damage to our body.

I have no idea why people are so crazy about those who should be called “boney” and despise those who is fat. Is thinness the real beauty? I do not think so. In my mind, the real beauty should be natural and comfortable. I think we should change our attitude toward fatness. Rather than laugh at them, we should try to help them lose weight and back to a normal condition.

Sources

Cassey Ho, “TOO SKINNY TO MODEL”, bloglates, Web, Dec 10 2013. http://blogilates.tumblr.com/post/19943032500/too-skinny-to-model-last-monday-a-new-law-passed