A Paralyzing Fear
From Reforming the Feminine:
“The fear of being fat is so overwhelming that young girls have indicated in surveys that they are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of cancer, nuclear war, or losing their parents.”
How many of us are secretly agreeing with that?
I hate the state we’re in.
Filed under: Struggles on November 4th, 2007
So for young girls becoming fat is worse than dying, dying another way and losing the two people by whom they likely are most loved?
What can people who are not young girls do about this?
I think it’s mainly a heart problem for us (meaning females) and a sin/culture problem in general. We need to focus on the Lord and what He wants to see in our hearts, not on what others are thinking of what we look like. We need to seek physical health, not excess but not starvation, instead of wanting to be worshipped as a model.
And the culture at large needs to stop equating physical beauty with worth… and being underweight with physical beauty.
As a person who is not a young girl, I think men and older women (who are not exempt from this struggle themselves) can affirm the younger women around by seeking to model, mentor, and affirm godly qualities instead of focusing merely on external appearances.
»We need to seek physical health, not excess but not starvation, instead of wanting to be worshipped as a model.«
Word.
»[...] can affirm the younger women around by seeking to model, mentor, and affirm godly qualities instead of focusing merely on external appearances.«
We can start with getting rid of that odious term “hot” used of the object of physical attraction. But yes.