things that have gone too far
#1:
The diet pill that i noticed while i was in Duane Reade this afternoon:
"Size 0"
in a tall black box with a big red "0", the box is slightly curved to create a sort of hour-glass look. I did a double take. stopped, stared at it, walked over to it and picked it up, aware that someone passing by might think i was considering buying it.
In googling to try and find a link to their website, i came across these upsetting articles:
Get slim with the size zero diet pill
and
ConsumerPriceWatch.net's
"Source of unbiased diet pill reviews for consumers"
and more dramatically,
"Horse Drug a New Popular Diet Pill"
I also came across a thread of comments in which one person noted that "My college face book group named Adderal [sic] lovers has 5,000+ people in it."
Adderall is prescribed for ADD/ADHD. Are we surprised that the kids who were the first generation to be prescribed loads of stimulants so that they could sit still and deal with outrageous pressures at school (or the simple expectation to be alert and pay attention and do work) are now misusing those drugs as young adults?
Please make some interesting comments here. I'm sick about all this. Not leastly the fact that when i read about a drug that could make me skinnier in a week, my second thought is, "maybe if i just took it for a little while..."
blech.
i'm going to bed.
click on the image above to purchase your very own box of 100 Size 0 pills from ebay, promoted with the stupid sentence, "Size 0 is a remarkable, first ever, scientific breakthrough for female weight loss and beauty!" ugh!ugh!ugh!
posted by ceciliabrie at
9:22 PM
5 Comments:
You know girls are buying that stuff, aren't they? Damn objectification. I just don't think there's any way to combat the desire to be desired.
I know, I know. The Gospel.
By
E. Twist, at 9:41 PM
Those articles are disturbing. The problem's not the desire to be desired, it's wanting to be desired artificially and quickly.
Brie, we all think you're lovely just the way you are! Ni se te ocurra.
By
Ed, at 1:13 AM
Wow. Size zero. Wow. It shouldn't be a suprise, but it is still. "Weight loss and beauty"-- synomynous? When I was doing light research on beauty I found an interesting discovery. There is an island in the Pacific (I think it is Fiji) that celebrates full figured women; research found very few eating disorders there though... Since the introduction of tv in the society the reports of eating disorders has grown significantly.
What we project as beautiful from our cultural world view creates 'size zero'. God help us and protect others from this Western disease. Brie, you are beautiful by the way.
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micah, at 2:36 PM
this is disgusting. i am so tired of the commercialization of beauty, and the objectification of women. an entire industry (or two or three) has made billions of dollars making women feel like they have to meet an impossible standard to be acceptable and beautiful not only to men, but to all of society, and even to themselves!
it's just sickening. every bit of it.
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pamela, at 9:16 PM
what i wonder is how it can possibly stop. I recently had a long conversation with a friend who used to work as a model and now is a designer. And it's this vicious cycle that the designers make their sample designs super tiny, which then "requires" the models to fit them. And everyone knows what's going on, that models aren't eating, etc., and yet no one is going to make the first move to change. And she made an interesting connection between who the designers are (ie lots of gay men) and what demographic they find attractive, and the resulting trend in the kind of female body shapes that are used. Now there's an upsetting thought.
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ceciliabrie, at 8:02 PM
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