Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h0V1Q5P09382; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:26:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:26:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20030130172438.009e3490@mail.aracnet.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2462] RE: weight as an issue X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 24 At 07:27 PM 01/30/2003 -0500, Bertha Mo wrote: >I should hope that the priority is "healthy" and thin >is secondary...Bertie Mo What's really weird is that we have this situation in this country where at the moment "thin" and "healthy" are equated. It's weird, because in much of the rest of the world and in other times the equation is/has been just the opposite. "Shapely" certainly has been more of a norm until recent years, and it caused its own health problems (corsets, etc.). These days what's considered "beautiful" is very unhealthy, basically anorectic models that few people can (or should) emulate. Ironically, when women try to achieve that look, they often get fatter (or else they also get anorectic and may even die). What we spend money on and why (not to mention time, as in going to the gym) are certainly topics of interest to everyone, and therefore completely appropriate to discuss in a classroom. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvan Rainwater . mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org . Family Literacy Coordinator Clackamas County Children's Commission / Head Start Oregon City, OR USA
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