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rapunzalis:

I think people always equate the pressure for women to be skinny with the pressure for men to be fit is because everyone falsely assumes skinny = automatically healthy.

This is comparing apples to oranges. On one hand, society encourages men to maintain their health, be fit, and be muscular, while on the other hand, society is encouraging women to hate their bodies to the point of starvation and death.

At this point a study conducted by the University of North Carolina estimated that 75% of women have disordered eating habits and an unhealthy relationship to food.

By age 6, girls especially start to express concerns about their own weight or shape. 40-60% of elementary school girls (ages 6-12) are concerned about their weight or about becoming too fat. This concern endures through life (Smolak, 2011).

From the National Eating Disorder Association:

The rate of development of new cases of eating disorders has been increasing since 1950 (Hudson et al., 2007; Streigel-Moore &Franko, 2003; Wade et al., 2011).
There has been a rise in incidence of anorexia in young women 15-19 in each decade since 1930 (Hoek& van Hoeken, 2003).
The incidence of bulimia in 10-39 year old women TRIPLED between 1988 and 1993 (Hoek& van Hoeken, 2003).

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

For females between fifteen to twenty-four years old who suffer from anorexia nervosa, the mortality rate associated with the illness is twelve times higher than the death rate of all other causes of death (Sullivan, 1995).

And for people to compare pressure to work out, to eat healthy and a ton of calories in order to sustain work outs, and to have bodies that are fit, it’s absolutely not the same and a totally disgusting comparison to say that men and women both face equal pressure in regards to appearance.

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