fire_breeze
Softly Seductive
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And the self-loathing starts at such a very early age. A couple of weeks ago I saw a news piece (I wish I could find the link) about a 6 year old girl from Texas who told her mother that she wanted to go on a diet because she thought she was too fat. It made me think WTF, because the little girl wasn't overweight at all. But I guess all her friends are smaller than she is and she's already feeling the sting of poor body image.
Little girls buy into this shit sooo early that it's frightening. The reporter did an informal experiment: showing a group of 5-7 year old girls a range of pictures of other little girls and asking them to determine if the pictured girl was fat or not. And I have to tell you, some of the girls deemed "fat" were absolutely within normal BMI range.
It's sad how early our kids' minds are poisoned, often without us being aware of it or even aware that we, ourselves are contributing to it. Someone on another forum recently posted this link on how to talk to little girls. It's an excellent article and dead on. It's forever changed my thinking on how I will converse with girls.
I came across this article a couple of months ago. Studies seems to suggest that body type is ingrained into girl as early as the age of three and that they prefer thin. After reading this article, it put into perspective my personal self loathing.