How skinny do you have to be?

[Crockett]

How skinny does a ballerina have to be? There's a nasty rowe starting after a New York Times critic savaged a woman who to me appears a beautiful and talented ballerina as a Sugarplum Fairy who "looks as if she's eaten one too many sugarplums."
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The woman is not overweight. She's womanly and eats enough to be strong enough to do her job. Of course I think rail-thin beauties used to model clothing are not nearly so pretty as as a volleyball players of the same height who probably outweigh them by30 pounds.

The critic feels he's gotten unduly harsh criticims for merely doing his job. I read about girls fighting a lifetime of eating disorders and becoming so thin they cease to ovulate. I know it's not fair, but if I had to describe the critic in a word it would contain seven letters the last four of which are "hole"

 

[Bluepies]

Article points out how he wasn't criticized at all for saying the same about one of the male dancers. Interesting.

 

[Crockett]

Men don't generally starve themselves to win approval, though they might to make weight in martial arts or to be a jockey. Richard Carpenter the pudgy piano player was fine, but a criticism of a few extra pounds on Karen sent her into obsessions that ended her life.

 

[Huckleberry]

Yeah, and the disparate reactions to a woman being called overweight versus a man being called the same thing only exacerbate that problem. Young girls learn that being called overweight as a woman is horrible. Young boys learn that being called overweight as a man really isn't that big a deal.

 

[rickysrun]

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[Owlhorn]

this is a bigger problem with young men than many think. Much of the research is only being done now. Decades of wrestling weight limits and position weight limits in some football leagues.

 

[general35]

but a criticism of a few extra pounds on Karen sent her into obsessions that ended her life.
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it porbably went a lot deeper than that. she had other problems.

 

[Mobyhorn]

Narcicissm is an evil. At the same time, many more are growing obese.

 

[general35]

How skinny do you have to be?

For a woman, and I will except really tall woman, but there really is no excuse for being larger than a size 6 (current standards apply). A current size 6 was a size 10 about 20 years ago. Chicks need to eat less, workout more and if they drink, drink a real martini or a vodka soda (less calories).

 

[Statalyzer]

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[PFD]

That chick isn't even close to being overweight.

On a related note, does naming a boy Alistair predispose him to being an insufferable prick?