MarsAtlas said:
LostGryphon said:
None of them are gymnasts or, you know, superheroes with toned, athletic builds.
Clearly you've never met a female gymnast. I've worked with gymnasts and even my mother was a gymnast, an Olypmic contender in fact. To this day she weighs about 90 pounds She's a grown female gymnast that doesn't even weigh three digits and she has a hell of a lot more mass in her waist than most of what we see in the Buzzfeed article
and she is considered severely underweight. You can see every rib she has when she takes off her shirt. Most female gymnasts who are that thin?
They're starving. There is a very clear expectation for gymnasts (and wrestlers too, while we're on the subject) to starve themselves. That expectation isn't an anomoly, its the norm of the sport and is why I'm never allowing my children to participate in it (or wrestling either). A lot of the female gymnasts you see at an Olympic level won't have their first menstruation until their twenties - if they even ever menstruate in their lifetime that is. Why? Because thats what starvation does to somebody undergoing puberty. You'll also notice that none of them are adults, and most professional female gymnastics happens before adulthood. They're in no way an accurate model of a healthy woman's body. I don't think that devoted crimefighters like Wonder Woman are inexplicibly starving themselves of essential nutrients that they need to live so I think my point stands.
All righty. I can whip out some anecdotal evidence too.
I have athletic women in my family (track and field + soccer + baseball, etc.) and have friends who did the same stuff. They ate well, took care of themselves, and were by no means "starving." They were thin. Either at or under weight and intensely physically active. One friend actually lifts weights; she's thinner than these chicks, but her arms and upper body are proportionally more beefy.
My sister in particular is quite thin. She eats a lot better than I do, watches her diet, and works out.
I also have family and friends who are athletic and
aren't under weight.
The difference here is-
They. Don't. And. Didn't. Look. Like. The. Women. In. This. Article.
3-6 are overweight. 1-3 seem about average. None of them appear to be athletes and none of them could be considered "thin."
Also, fun fact, NONE of them are
super heroes with toned, athletic builds. Which is a point you seemed to completely ignore to go on about starving pre-pubescent gymnasts. I used gymnasts as a reference point in terms of flexibility. But fine, here, let's change it to "contortionist." Is that a bit clearer?
There are, of course, different body types and people out there who exemplify each and every one, but we're not exactly making an argument in good faith when we pull this "compare super heroes to the average dumpy person" nonsense. Just because they're not average doesn't mean that these women don't exist or aren't "possible."
Hell, a simple google search demolishes that idea.
Even most little people aren't that thin when they're nourished and healthy, no way other adult women in the world are living healthy lives at 60 pounds.
Ah. I see. You seem to have a pretty...unhealthy perception of what constitutes "thin."
It doesn't mean this:
That's just macabre as well as incredibly dangerous/unhealthy for said person and it's NOT what "thin/athletic/toned/healthy" translates to.
