This short video (2 minutes and 44 seconds) basically describes my life back in high school. Except I didn't take diet pills or laxatives. I did, however, weigh myself every day, count my calories with the help of fitday only allowing myself 1,000 calories a day and 20 grams of fat, and cared more about my weight than my health. I got myself down to 105 pounds, and I will never again subject myself to that even though I'm constantly bombarded by the media, our culture, and my female friends and relatives with these messages that I need to be thin in order to be happy, which is nonsense.
Our culture needs to let go of the notion that thinness brings us happiness in order to start accepting ourselves. We need to be more concerned with being healthy rather than thin. I would also like to say that bulimia and anorexia are not the only eating disorders... many women subjugate themselves to this sort of behavior described above and in the video. This is also not an individual problem as the term eating disorder suggests; this is a problem that stems from our culture.
Thanks to Feminist Fatale for suggesting this amazing video on their blog. The following is stated on the blog.
Artist statement:
An ephemeral drawing is one that is created to be destroyed. It addresses the relationships between medium, subject, and significance.
over it is the documentation of an ephemeral art piece that talks about overcoming disordered eating through the creation and consumption of a cake with a scale drawn on it with icing. Though its narrative is deeply personal, the experience is nearly universal in our image-obsessed culture with its narrow standards of feminine beauty.
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