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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Elle MacPherson causes rape?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.173813.9598@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov4.134127.11971@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1992Nov4.200004.23740@netcom.com> <Bx9rsE.K7z@world.std.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:38:13 GMT
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- In article <Bx9rsE.K7z@world.std.com> marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>I know eating disorders are dangerous, but you are usually healthier being
- >>slim than if you are overweight. And obesity is a bigger problem than
- >>bulemia and anorexia combined (to the best of my knowledge, I will look
- >>this up when I get home).
- >
- >Do you mean a bigger problem for the person who has one of these problems, or
- >that obesity is more widespread? If the latter, I encourage you to realize that
- >the stats on that are wildly variable, depending on where you define "obesity"
- >and how you define "eating disorder". Don't forget that much of what this
- >society views as normal behavior is actually very unhealthy; many people are
- >quite healthy at higher weights than are often considered "normal", and the
- >way women (and, to a lesser extent, men) view food and eating habits is just
- >bizarre.
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- > Basically, we expect women to be following unhealthy eating habits,
- >reward her if she does and revile her if she doesn't.
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- Do we? Or do the women involved improperly associate certain physical traits
- to happiness/success or whatever they value?
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- You can justify the claim about what "we expect" with psychobabble, but
- that does not prove any sort or causal relationship.
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- >>And this claim is not true.
- >
- >Okay, stats man, show me the stats to prove it.
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- I need to make another trip to the library. I'll get back to this.
-
- >Marty
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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