In my last post, I said that I would prefer an intelligent person over a vapid bimbo. However, at the same time, I would never be able to truly like an ugly, unfit person who actually says "I'm happy the way I am".
Now you tell me, "How do you know your concept of beauty isn't influenced by the media? Why can't people be happy the way they are?"
This is actually directed at Carmen and Suyin! But indirectly concerns JonChu. Go read his post! JON CHU'S POST. *CLICK*
Before I go on, let me ask you, what is the mass media? From the way some people talk about it, it seems like some sentient organism with its own purpose, being able to "influence" the masses and so on.
But it's not. The messages in the media came from someone. Ideas like "You can be happy with whoever you are, it doesn't matter if you're fat or thin, stupid and ugly, you can be satisfied" come from the mass media too. DISNEY! Blogs are a medium too, btw.
So to say that the idea of the perfect figure is a unrealistic depiction of the mass media is unfair, since the idea that one can be happy with whoever you are is ALSO an idea in the media. The fact is, almost EVERY opinion held by the masses is present in the media.
Since I have shown that BOTH opinions are present in the media, we can ask, "Which opinion is correct?" without saying things like "you are wrong because your opinion is formed and influenced by THE MEDIA".
Now, go read Jeannette Goon's post *CLICK* on the perfect figure.
She wrote from a logical point of view, stating that men desire the perfect figure because of its functionality. I agree with her, but I would like to add a little something to it-
The body you have was given to you by God. What are you doing with it?
If you are overweight, and are not happy about it, congratulations, you're not supposed to be. Now do something about it. God gave some 10 talents, while others only got 1. Don't bury it.
If you are happy about it... Google "Dangers of Obesity" Or click the link.
If you do not exercise, if you eat unhealthily, if you do anything you know is not good for your body excessively... and you feel good about it... then I'm not going to bother preaching to you.
But if you feel guilty whenever or after you do such things, guess what? It's your body telling you "YOU IDIOT. TAKE CARE OF ME".
4 comments:
Yeah, there are some fat people who look fully healthy. And then there are those who look like they just don't care and they've let themselves go.
but i thought that you and i are already on the same page ... that you were wrong in saying the ideal is someone slim but instead that it should be someone fit ...
because someone can be fit without being slim ...
we were not even debating over the media ...
and so if your point is that your ideal is someone fit then i agreed with you on that?
laughs ... i dont really remember our exact conversation from that day anymore.
but importantly i remembered that you made sense for certain things and likewise so did i.
so ya la
I think the idea of 'fit' is all in the mind. If you think you are fit, then so be it. If not, then do something about it.
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