Who's Responsible for Women Wanting to Be So Thin?

I believe that more than anything, it is women pressuring other women to be thin (however, I would love to hear someone argue this). Men inherently are not attracted to size 0 girls. They are biologically 'designed' to be attracted to women with a few more curves, as they suggest health and fertility - as I learned in my social psych class. This is not to say men have no part in creating the ideal that women ought to be beautiful. If we look at it a little more, it is predominantly women and homosexual men that would in the fashion industry, who the skinniest women work for, and where average girls are trained to associate beauty with being rail thin. Woman are also the ones asking where other women got their cute clothes and how they got so thin - further enabling thinness to consume women. In order to change the ideal of being stick thin, we must change the woman's perception of what it means to be beautiful. Health is beauty.