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What a sad show I watched last night. It was about the latest fad: starved and emaciated females. The fashion world is now forcing "Size Zero" onto women.

Ok, let me get this straight: when we see pictures of starved and emaciated women in the Third World we get sick to our stomachs and feel horrible. And many of us send money to help feed them.

But when we see an emaciated white woman in the West with her bones sticking out we say, "She's my hero!"

So...we only value emaciation when it is done on purpose. We only respect starvation that is forced upon a person by their own self-will. "Look at how hard she works to starve (ahem...I mean diet) herself thin!"

Let me take this a step further: Is it possible that there is so much starvation in our world (willing and unwilling) beacuse we have pinned some kind of moral achivement onto self-starvation? If we are starved because there is no food to be had then we need help and the world pities us. But if we starve ourselves on purpose we are "disciplined" and someone to be admired??

"Look at how hard she works to maintain her figure!" we say as we watch a starved woman strut down the street. And then we purse our lips in disgust as a fat woman strolls by. "And look at her - she's a lazy pig with no self control!"

Is this why we don't work to acctually stop World Hunger: because we think women must be emaciated in order to be valued as human beings?

The media is being severely irresponsible. Whenever any media outlet promotes pictures or images of emaciated women they are telling all women and girls that, "You must look like this in order to be acceptable." That is dangerous. And wrong. Who gave the media or the fashion industry the right to set themselves up as our moral authority??

Yes, yes I've heard all of the tired "health" arguments. "If you are fat you are going to die of obesity!" But let's face the facts here: the "Body Mass Index" has been proven to be absolute bunk and there are plenty of medical studies that show how people with fat do very well in life - as long as they are fit. And that skinny people have increased mortality and increased cancer/diabetes/heart disease risks when they are underweight and/or not fit.

Did you know that as long as you are fit you can be 80 pounds overweight without any danger to your health? And that if you are just 5 pounds underweight you increase your mortality? Did you know that your health is determined by your fitness rather then your fat percentage?? Anyone, regardless of size, is at risk for death and disease when they are not fit.

What would happen to our world (including the Third World) if we human beings started to value fitness and strength rather then emaciated bodies?? Would women be allowed to have acctual bodies? Would they be loved for their minds and their characters rather then their waist measurements??

Women cry and wail for "equal rights" and to be set free from oppression. Yet what are we enduring right now if not the worst case of objectification and oppression? It surprises me that women will spend so much energy and time screaming at the Catholic Church for refusing to ordain women - but they bow at the altar of the Fashion Industry and salute the media which enslaves them to self-starvation and a collective world-wide eating disorder.

Every woman I know is on a diet. "I have to lose weight!" they have wailed for the past twenty years or so. Every year, every week, every day, "I have to lose weight!" All that they seem to think about is FOOD. You can't have a conversation without them wistfully wishing for this or that food - and then feeling guilty for wanting it. You can't eat without them making you totally uncomfortable as they fork tiny portions onto their plates and complain bitterly about their size.

Can you imagine what we women would be if we used this much time and energy to develop talents and skills?

But why bother. If we live in a world that only values us based on our waist-size then skills and talents will never matter.

What misery to constantly be at war with yourself.

You are beautiful NOW. Just the way you are now. You are beautiful and you are meant to be here - no matter what size you are. Yes, be fit and yes, eat healthy fresh foods in normal (not diet) portions. But don't fall for the awful lie that you are not worth something unless you are a skinny emaciated thing.

Love yourself. Life is too short to spend it punishing yourself via food.