Here’s a brief quote from the narration on the video:

“Art from other culture and times past also illustrate that today’s American vision of beauty as young and thin is by no means universal.

Women and men with ample body fat were seen as very sexy in other civilizations and cultures. Especially in nineteen-century Western art, ample body fat was seen not only as a sign of health and desirability but also as a symbol of wealth, especially in times when food was scarce. Artists like Renoir and Rubens celebrated full-figured women in their paintings.”

This critical analysis of current-day media messages that portray only a limited selection of body types as being sexually desirable happens in both middle and high school Our Whole Lives. Providing our youth with the tools to evaluate these media messages is important.

On another note, eHarmony is targeted at people like my mother*. The ads are even shot with that exact soft-focus lens that ads targeting her are often shot in..

* Just to clarify, PeaceBang, you and my mother are VERY different people.

But if you take the sociobiologist view, men are hard-wired to find women more attractive when they look healthy and not pregnant. So maybe it isn’t totally their fault.

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