Yes, I know it's been forever since I've posted. I'm very sorry, and I'm working on getting better. So here's what's on my mind today:
Have you seen any movie stars lately? Am I the only one who thinks that the whole skinny=hot thing has gone seriously too far? If you saw someone who looks like that in a commercial about poverty or a news report about some war torn country, you would cry. Then you would send money to a charity dedicated to fixing their plight. Isn't time for some well-meaning Christian organization to start shipping sandwiches to Hollywood?
When you see someone who is clearly underfed because of their poverty, hopefully it not only motivates you to try to help them, but also gives you an intense feeling of gratitude for the food you are able to eat. Yet, when we see an underfed actress or model, we feel a sense of guilt and self-disgust for eating the food with which we have been provided. We berate ourselves for every bit of non-celery stick food consumed in the past week, and feel inadequate as women, because starvation has become the standard to which we are failing to live up.
In a recent interview, I heard Portia Di Rossi point out that we are at the point where we expect grown women to maintain the body type of girls in their early teens. I've heard other models/tv personalities discuss their struggles to conceive children, because maintaining the weight required to compete in Hollywood has decreased their fertility. Stop and ponder briefly the implications for the human race, given that we have begun to exalt characteristics that are tantamount to infertility as hallmarks of desirability. I'm just sayin' is all...
It makes me think of Brian Mclaren's description of today's culture as a suicide machine. We are all caught in it, to some extent or other, and if anyone has any ideas about how to break the world out of this insanity, please share them with me. In the meantime, clean your plates. People are starving in Hollywood.
You really are my favorite.
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