"I Would Rather Die Than Be Fat"
Mary-Kate Olsen
I was on YouTube the other day, and I somehow clicked on this Mary-Kate Olsen video, about how she has anorexia or has an eating disorder or something about that. I then saw two comments that literally made me want to scream. I'm not going to name names, but I am going to tell you what those comments said (I corrected some spelling mistakes), I quote "Yeah, I know I would rather be dead than be fat, fat people are ugly and unhappy and they eat too much". I'm guessing it was a girl who said this, she was replying to another comment that said, "Okay idk if this is bad but I think she looks fine.. I rather be too skinny then anywhere close to fat, I would rather die then be fat sorry but it's true. Fat ppl gross me out".
The video did not say these type of things. In fact, this homemade YouTube video actually made it look sad because it was well made. But these people took it the other way. As if the user who made the video said that she looked ugly, but the video said nothing about her being pretty OR ugly.
I'm so tired of using those words, though. Fat, ugly, skinny. I'm also tired of people who put them in categories. Like, how the word 'skinny' is meant to be put into the 'pretty and beautiful category'. Wheres, the word 'fat' is automatically put into the 'ugly category', that somehow being fat makes us unattractive, though people are attracted to different people.
I'm not saying all people are like this. Because beauty is so distorted for all of us. Some say that having long hair is very pretty but others say that short hair is more cute and attractive.
It's very hard for me to explain all of this. In fact, most of this is just my opinion. I don't exactly know the definition of 'beautiful' or 'beauty' or 'beautiful. So I searched up the word beautiful in the dictionary,
- having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech
- excellent of its kind: a beautiful putt on the seventh hole; The chef served us a beautiful roast of beef
- wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying.
Here's what I thought of the definition. Referring to the example of, "a beautiful dress", I thought how is it, that, that dress is beautiful? You may think a long, dark pink dress is beautiful. But I may not think it's beautiful because it's long which I don't like and it's pink, which is a colour I also don't like.
See what I told you? Everyone feels differently about something that is supposedly "beautiful", because well not all of us is going to think that dress or that, that speech was, beautiful. Maybe I thought the speech was bit boring and bland.
So, what is it that fills out mind with stereotypes or beauty? Personally, I think its the magazines. Half those people are at least photo shopped to "perfection". But not everything is perfect. And how come supermodels have to be a certain way? Thin but not too skinny, long neck but not too long, tall but not too tall.
There are of course, plus sized models too, which is good. But I guess it's what we feel is beautiful. Maybe it's some sort of physiological reason. Maybe you like your big eyes so you instantly feel beautiful which is good but then you may just cancel out on all other eyes.
It's all so complicated.
