I'm Having a Real Problem with Hollywood

[true_notes]

I was looking through the front page news section today and came across an article trying to explain why anorexia was acceptable in today's world. On it were a handful of celebrities that primarily pre-teen and teenage girls look up to in today's culture. Most of them look like nothing but skeletons with a thin layer of latex on them.

This is a pitiful scheme by Hollywood, and will probaly be nothing but a new recruiting tool. I know things in the fashion and celebrity business have cycles, and that they all end, but things like this are hurting our youth, in my opinion. The media and Hollywood have taken it upon themselves to try and cover up the truth behind Anorexia or Bullemia and try to make it seem like the healthy way to go when it comes to weight loss. They are just preying in on this nation's obesity issue.

I don't care what goes on in crazy town, but when the effect of my wife or daughter wanting to be like say..Nicole Richie, I begin to want to take a stand because their idiocy has leaked into my livingroom and I will not stand for it.

TRUE NOTES

[marmar]

1. In Madrid, Spain, they recently banned models for being too thin...

and unhealthy looking. Why anyone would want to look like Nicole Ritchie or Lindsay Lohan is beyond me.

[cynatnite]

4. They do it by looking? How will they enforce it?

:shrug:

My sister is thin thin thin. Not anorexic...just different metabolism. She could eat a cake and not gain a pound. Geez, I'd hate for someone to file charges against her for that.

[true_notes]

6. Point Taken

Some people are naturally thin, BUT HEALTHY. It's a huge difference my friend. Take the time to research some of the images coming out. It looks like some of these girls are dropping 10's of pounds within months, fluxing between new movie roles.

Now, does metabolism work like that?

[cynatnite]

10. My sister is that thin...

she looks effing anorexic. This is a woman who has had four babies, three were over 10 lbs and she eats about as normal as anyone. But she looks as thin as many of those models people are bitching about.

If they are healthy, who the fuck cares? :shrug:

Is it really our business to pass judgment on these women based on their looks?

I'm not saying they are or are not anorexic, but it seems like every few years or so, people get their underwear in a bunch over this. It borders on stupidity, IMO.

[diamidue]

15. I'll tell you what gets me

Is that in the middle school my daughter attended, there are the usual beanpole-type girls. Girls that shot up fast and their weight hasn't caught up to them yet. In the old days, they would have been called "slim" or "slender" or "skinny". Now they are being taunted and whispered about as being "anorexic". It is cruel. Some kids are just skinny. Plain and simple.

[laundry_queen]

8. No they don't do it by looking.

They do it by BMI. 20-25 is normal. 18-19 is classified as underweight. Models who have a BMI of less than 18 were banned. Here's a link to a BMI chart to get an idea of weight/height ratio: http://www.consumer.gov/weightloss/bmi.htm
hth!
edited for errors. and again for spelling, ugh!

[cynatnite]

11. They can't do it by saying 'get thee to a doctor'?

:shrug:

I know a few people who think BMI is crap. One was a weightlifter in the Army. Using BMI he was overweight so according to the Army he was overweight. It was all because of the thickness of his neck. It was too thick so he was overweight. It took two doctors and his commanding officer to set it right.

[AX10]

2. I can't stand celebrity culture, especially in the last 5 years.

Ever since "Reality" TV and the onslaught of these new rags (US weekly/Star/In Touch, etc) along with the 24/7 news cycle and these Cell Phones that can be used to email/text message and play Music Videos, it has become just too much. So much to the point where I find myself rejecting these new "celebrities" en-masse. I don't watch American Idol (nor will I buy any CD's from their "winners"), I don't watch "Fear Factor", "Survivor", or those stupid shows such as "Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight". Celebrity has always been shallow, but in the past few years it has become cheap as $20 "Ho" on a street corner. Celebrity is as meaningless as ever.

[NEDem]

3. I'm tired of this blanket usage of the word 'Hollywood'

[true_notes]

5. Hollywood is a "Blanket"

Because it encompasses every tortured soul that lives there. I visited a friend there for 3 months while she was getting on her feet as a chef and I felt like I was in Neverland Ranch for 90 days. It's a literal 24 hour freak show full of scoundrals, drugs, and decadence. Nothing good, other than a few good films has came out of that hell hole.

On the other hand if lunacy is your thing, then I guess this "blanket" will keep you warm. I just disagree with a vast amount of content that comes from there.

Peace.

[AX10]

9. Read truenote's second post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2267715&mesg_id=2267812

Also, consider that liberal Democrat Alan Alda would not live anywhere near Hollywood because he wanted his children to have a normal life.

[madmusic]

7. Hollywood is a business, nothing more, nothing less.

Halliburton is a far greater threat.

[valerief]

12. Heroin must be cheap nowadays. nt

[diamidue]

13. Who says anorexia and bulemia are acceptable?

Who says they are healthy ways to lose weight? Who says Hollywood is to blame? There seems to be nudity in just about every movie out there and the women jumping in and out of the beds are hardly anorexic - nor are they obese. Yes, a certain segment of women, with some deeper problems, are affected by these diseases, but their presence is hardly the norm from what I see in the movies.

[mongo]

14. Must go do what TV tells me....

Because I'm too stupid to make choices for myself. It's all TV's fault that Im a drug-addicted anorexic sex addict!


:sarcasm:

[misternormal]

16. Anorexia and Bulimia are...

... serious psychological problems... I doubt that anyone would "choose" to be saddled with either.