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11/12/09
Like...you believe women should have equal rights...mostly? Except when you don't?
Femnism isn't about proving that you're equal. It's about making sure that the law actually reflects that (it doesn't), and that we question cultural and social norms that seek to limit that equality.
So unless sometimes she thinks women shouldn't have equal rights, that makes no sense.
I can't even touch the ED comment because I'm kind of tired of people asking models about it. They tend to say the same thing...it's all the media, or it's barely the media. It's not particularly nuanced and it just furthers the idea that ED's are superficial. #cindycrawford
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is like saying "I'm not a Christian, but ... " and then reciting the Nicene Creed. #cindycrawford
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Q: Fashion gets blamed for encouraging eating disorders.
"That's a little bit of a stretch. I don't know that much about eating disorders, but I'm certainly not one of the people they've blamed, because I'm not super-skinny. I think people want to find something to blame. An eating disorder is way more than a girl looking at a magazine and seeing a picture of a skinny model. Maybe that's one tiny piece of the puzzle, but I think it's a lot more about self-esteem and self-love and control, so it's too simplistic to just blame it on models who are skinny." #cindycrawford
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It's just as fair to say that self-esteem isn't the main issue in an eating disorder, since plenty of people have that and don' t try to starve themselves to death (bearing in mind that not all ED's are restrictive).
Each individual has different triggers, different reasons why an ED was/is their outlet. Not only does our culture idealize slim bodies, but it also idealizes body control, weight control, and dieting/food. Our culture has an extremely dysfunctional attitude about women and their bodies, our role in the world, everything.
To me, it's the conflict between all of it that helps create an ED in the individual. It's all interrelated.
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It's certainly a component for some people but it's not all of it.
I think the media perpetuates certain cultural ideals, which influences the individual. So it's a component. But trying to make ED's only one thing bothers me. It feels like a way to ignore the complex nature of them. #cindycrawford
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Furthermore, while self-esteem does play a large role in eating disabilities, I do not think it is reasonable to say that the fashion industry does not create a climate that is detrimental to the self-esteem of young girls. Much of the marketing that is out there today is all about improvement, improvement, improvement, buy this product, try this exercise, do this, do that, don't do that - there is a low historical precedent for the message that young girls are good enough just the way they are. #cindycrawford
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Not that women should be deciding what they want to look like based on male preferences or national averages or whatever, but it does seem to be generally true that the "super-skinny" ideal is not really an ideal established and propagated by men who are sexually attracted to women.
As to what this has to do with gay men, I don't know, except that I'm assuming gay men may have slightly different standards as to what constitutes "attractive" than straight men do.
I know that I have different standards for male attractiveness than my gay friends, so--whether statistically supported or not--it seems that the conclusion isn't completely outlandish. #fashion
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Right. Because "gay" is the same as "liking young boys." #fashion
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