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 h0V0SmP06746; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:28:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:28:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20030131002659.26762.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.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: Bertha Mo <bertiemo@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2460] RE: weight as an issue X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 4041 Lines: 133 I should hope that the priority is "healthy" and thin is secondary...Bertie Mo --- SAM MCGRAW III <Samm@seattlegoodwill.org> wrote: > My two announces, > > It has been my experience that in all communities in > the US that "thin" is > better than "fat" and that discrimination fallows > those lines; > > In the African American community - women do not > have to be thin but they do > have to be shapely - in other words "a well > proportioned hour-glass body" is > the ticket. > > I'm concerned that many literacy students buy into > things which give them > perceived "status" - such as being thin - and > there-by spend precocious > dollars and risking health doing it; > > And I go to the gym four times a week for health and > to look thinner - so > where does that leave it?????? > > > > > Samuel McGraw > Instructor & Librarian > Adult Basic Education Programs > > Seattle Goodwill > 1400 South Lane Street > Seattle, Washington 98144-2889 > > Dl: 206 - 860 - 5789 > Tl: 206 - 860 - 5791 > Fx: 206 - 325 - 9845 > samm@seattlegoodwill.org > > www.seattlegoodwill.org > www.soundwavesseattle.org > > Operating in partnership with the communities of the > North Central Puget > Sound, Seattle Goodwill provides quality, effective > employment training and > basic education to individuals experiencing > significant barriers to economic > opportunity. Together, we change lives! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvan Rainwater [mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:32 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2451] RE: weight as an issue > > > At 08:14 AM 01/17/2003 -0500, Daphne Greenberg > wrote: > >Jody has mentioned that "weight is the last > acceptable form of > >discrimination". Do people see any signs that this > is beginning to change? > > I would argue that there is *any* "last acceptable > form of discrimination." > In fact, all forms of discrimination are alive and > well. There may be more > people disapproving of them, but they are still out > there, still operating > in all sorts of ways. > > That said, I would say that the issues of > weight/height and > food/eating/health are complex. There are ways in > which eating contributes > to weight gain, but also ways in which people are > born with their body > types, and no amount of dieting (either more food or > less food) will change > that appreciably. > > Comments about eating candy making one fat are > reflecting, maybe, a feeling > that we are surrounded with excess food, and pushers > urging us to eat more > and more. We have a surplus of food in this country, > and it's difficult not > to eat what is in front of us. Yet, we know that > what we are eating is > often not good for us, or healthy to be eating, > regardless of our weight. > The fact that fat is stigmatized in this society at > the same time we are > all urged to eat more, and more unhealthy food, is > one of those dilemmas > that is not altogether understood, and not talked > about in any clear way. > In addition, as pointed out, poor people end up > buying more unhealthy food > because they can get more of it for less money and > stretch their dollars > out more, so there is also an economic factor to the > whole thing. > > I think the whole thing would make an interesting > classroom discussion, but > in your case having it come up at the end of the > term made it difficult. It > may be useful to fold it in to discussions around > nutrition, food, etc., if > you have such topics in your curriculum. And of > course, now you can include > it in your list of diversities to be honored. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Sylvan Rainwater . mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org . > Family Literacy > Coordinator > Clackamas County Children's Commission / Head Start > Oregon City, OR USA __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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