Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I think it's a bit distasteful to armchair diagnose someone you don't know, though
Comment on The fashion industry is still pushing crazy thin body images
chepox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
You cannot tell me that dude (duddette?) doesn’t have an eating disorder. That looks sickly and horrible.
ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 6 months ago
Bonehead@kbin.social 6 months ago
It's also distasteful to encourage eating disorders to enter the modelling industry by exclusively featuring models that are extremely underweight, but I guess who are we to judge...
Terces@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We are the society and judging other people’s behaviour is what defines morality. Not speaking up about things that are clearly fucked up as the model industry just shifts the whole moral-scale in their favor.
EmoBean@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But when they’re extremely overweight from their eating disorder, that’s body positivity and needs to be included for those people to not feel excluded?
Bonehead@kbin.social 6 months ago
Why are the only options the extremely underweight or the extremely overweigh? What wrong with just using people of average weight? Or even just a healthy weight?
everyone_said@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]Bonehead@kbin.social 6 months ago
The fact that you choose to take personally what was a comment about a model in an industry that specifically selects for extremely underweight models regardless of how they achieve that weight doesn't mean that it was an insult directed at you. You are not the subject here. You may have a unique metabolism, but the industry projects an unhealthy and largely unattainable image for the vast majority of people.
We aren't ridiculing the model, we're concerned for their health...
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s not skinny, that’s starvation thin. The person in the picture is clearly not eating enough, any suggestion otherwise is just giving power to the notion that it’s healthy to be that underweight.
Not eating enough food is an eating disorder, regardless of the cause of it.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Meh, I dated a girl thinner than that. People were always making comments like yours, but to her face.
She had one barely functioning kidney. Dumped her because she was foul tempered, but I heard she got a transplant!
But yes, eating disorder is a fair guess for a model like that.
FatTony@discuss.online 6 months ago
She had one barely functioning kidney. Dumped her because she was foul tempered, but I heard she got a transplant!
Good to know…
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used to look like that from ages 15 to 30. I was eating 6000 calories a day to maintain my weight. I don’t know about that dude (dude is gender neutral), but it is possible they are struggling to not lose weight. Unlikely, but possible.
JCreazy@midwest.social 6 months ago
Someone who eats 6000 calories a day cannot look like this. It is not scientifically possible. That energy has to go somewhere and unless you’re sprinting continuously for hours on end it’s just not happening.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yet I did. 135 pounds and 6’2” for 15 years. You are assuming that everyone absorbs nutrition equally or that people burn at the same rate. I was a human space heater and, because my blood pressure was too low to get a driver’s license, I was walking up to 7 miles a day. But that exercise probably didn’t make a dent in anything.
JCreazy@midwest.social 6 months ago
I’m not here to say what your experiences are. I just have some numbers. The total daily energy expenditure of the average male of that weight and height aged 18-30 who does intense exercise daily is around 3300 calories a day and this is on the high range which means if one were to consume 6000 calories a day and use 3300, they would still have 2700 calories still in their body. A pound of fat is about 3500 calories therefore at that rate you would gain approximately 23 pounds a month. I’m not arguing. Just saying the numbers don’t add up.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People have different metabolism rates, especially in younger ages.
RBWells@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My brothers were swimmers and skinny and small (and really fast, won national titles) and that combination of young, male, and active does create a black hole of metabolism. I also had a friend who was 6’6" and 140lb but healthy too, poet not athlete. He ate, it’s just hard to eat enough to fund that much height.
The model though, that’s an aesthetic choice not an aspirational body type. Androgynous and otherworldly is what I think they are going for. It’s not mainstream attractive, certainly.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
I am extremely skinny and look unhealthy and kinda similar to the model in that way, even though I eat normally and I think even very healthy. My dad looks like that too. Being 2 meters tall also doesn’t exactly help. Just saying that you shouldn’t judge people so easily and you can hurt someone also pretty easily. Some people just have being fat or skinny in their genes.
chepox@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Absolutely right. I would not judge you if I saw you at the supermarket. But this dude is the face of a fashion and beauty brand. They are pushing this body type (rarely occurs naturally in healthy folks like you) and mostly occurs on people with health problems. In a way they are pushing a non healthy image to many people that are not like you. I would even dare to say you are a very minuscule porcentage of people with this body type that are 100% healthy so this is being pushed to folks that have lovehandles and now they hate themselves.
meekah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
the important part is the suggestion that you can look like them by buying prada
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
Yeah, given that people have different body types, making any type the good one or worse, the right one is just wrong and beauty business plays a big role in the problem.
Guest_User@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Conservation of energy would maybe disagree with that last statement
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Being 2m tall they have to eat quite a bit more than average, and it sounds like they’re not.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I’m not much shorter and my daily intake is around 3000kcal. I used to be super skinny too, and that didn’t change until I started eating more than what I thought was “normal”
Smc87@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
How?
Akagigahara@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The way I interpret the comment is that they are saying “If you would eat normally, you couldn’t be that thin.”
It’s a reference to the fact that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into a different form.
HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Thank you. There’s apparently been a fine line between promoting body acceptance and shitting on thin body types. Some people seem to think it’s not even a natural body type at all and anyone who’s thin is just anorexic. It’s like we’ve been completely left out of the equation unless we’re being looked down on. Yeah, I’m right there with you on this.