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The pressure women face to be thin, it is overwhelming. The women who are already thin feel it everyday in the sense that they MUST stay thin, or be miserable if they lose it. What about the women who are labeled 'fat' by our society? They feel it even worse in many cases because it isn't just pressure to be thin they feel...they feel judged, they feel like they aren't good enough, aren't pretty enough. Of course some of these 'larger' women have overcome these feelings and are happy with their bodies. Instead of being praised by society though, instead of being told they are wonderful examples for humanity, they are ridiculed still! Confident and chubby women are accused of being 'over-confident' or they are told by others that the reason they accept themselves is because they know they could never be thin. What kind of society is this where we cannot even accept the natural shape of a human's body?

It isn't just women either, men feel the pressure too...women just like to pretend they get it worse. I just want to point out the fact that I have known 'fat' women who refused to go out with a man because he was...guess what...fat. Those same women complain when 'hot guys' don't want to date them. "The only reason he won't go out with me is because I'm fat! What a jerk." Yet, some women never stop to realize that they base much of their own judgments on appearance as well.

I'm sure a large part of the problem though, is the fact that even if they are considered 'fat'...they still live in this society. Even larger people are not immune to the brainwashing of television and magazines...society in general. Even big people manage to get in their fair share of judging when it comes to the appearance of other humans. Fat people judge people who are fatter than them and so on and so forth.

So why does everyone make the biggest deal, it seems, about being fat? There are numerous books for teenage girls about the subject of eating disorders, physical appearances, and even just plain being fat. It seems like everyone is afraid of getting fat, being fat, or even seeing fat! Why? At one point in history fat women were revered as the epitome of gorgeous...if you were large it meant you were healthy. Now it is the opposite that is true, if you are large you are unhealthy. I realize that this is because of society's standards of food and our own ways of making food and blah blah blah, I realize that in many cases overweight people are in fact unhealthy while thinner people are

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