Study shows girls (ages 3 to 5) reject fat dolls to play with. They consistently prefer thin version

[DeVotchKa]

Take it from me, being fat fucking sucks (5'10, 260+ represent though losing weight). This is good, kids shouldn't be spoonfed "fat is healthy and beautiful" because it's not. It's delusional at best and a one way ticket to a very early grave at worst. And before people are like "bluh bluh body acceptance, fat shamer" there's a difference between accepting ehat I look like and fooling myself into thinking i'm beautiful because i'm big. That makes people uncomfortable and leads to thin shaming. Besides, the way I see it, I accept myself but there's no reason why I shouldn't strive to be better.

[pkhzor]

Well, the only reason why people seem to be going along with the "fat is healthy and beautiful" theme is because they are fat themselves and this is an excuse for them not to get off their fat asses and do something about it.
Unhealthy = unattractive for most people.

DeVotchKa, keep it up, my friend was almost 300 pounds before he hit the gym, 2 years later he's healthy weight and built like a tank.

[Trogdon]

[QUOTE=pkhzor;43683571]Well, the only reason why people seem to be going along with the "fat is healthy and beautiful" theme is because they are fat themselves and this is an excuse for them not to get off their fat asses and do something about it.
Unhealthy = unattractive for most people.

DeVotchKa, keep it up, my friend was almost 300 pounds before he hit the gym, 2 years later he's healthy weight and built like a tank.[/QUOTE]

I think there's a difference between it being "healthy and beautiful" and people who aren't thin being sad and having no friends.

Little girls thinking that being overweight (they don't show the dolls weight, so all we know is that larger than average) means that you are sad and people don't like you, is fucked up. That has nothing to do with health, health is just used as an excuse to dislike overweight people. It's not like being rail thin like a Barbie is healthy. Shaming people into feeling shitty about themselves is not a good way to make them change, I don't care what the situation is.

[Swilly]

[QUOTE=person11;43662121]It could be biological or social.

People always underestimate the power of socialization. People can be influenced from an extremely early age. In SOME cases, they are actually MOST influenced within the first year.[/QUOTE]

Or it could be completely biological.

SO far we have fuck all for answers other than it could be genetic, it could be sociological? Its one of those fun discussion topics where you can line up as many studies as you want and half will say one thing with the other half saying the other and you can pick and choose to support your opinion! Because if fucking matters what you are and how you came to be!

[itisjuly]

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;43681382]In Africa fat is generally a good thing. Its completely cultural.[/QUOTE]
Last time I checked it was only true in parts of Africa where food and water are scarce. If so, it isn't cultural but instead biological.

[Rangergxi]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;43726905]Last time I checked it was only true in parts of Africa where food and water are scarce. If so, it isn't cultural but instead biological.[/QUOTE]

Not having plentiful contributes to a culture.

[itisjuly]

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;43726929]Not having plentiful contributes to a culture.[/QUOTE]
But it is not culture that contributes to body preferences in this case. It is still lack of food and survival instinct. I doubt you could culturally enforce hungry people to be attracted to skinny bodies. It would be negative signal for survival and reproduction.