Killing Us Softly 4 (2010)

An amazing documentary.

Thank you thank you thank you for the work you have been doing on this topic. I will recommend to all the parents in my Kids in Harmony workshops (middle school kids and their parents) that they watch this together and discuss it.

Well, now I hate society even more.

Despite the feminism which is irritating, very good public speaker and very good facts and images. I am doing a slideshow presentation on this topic myself, but not as a female activist but as a counter media/advertising activist.

I’m a tad bit confused. She’s complaining about how skewed advertisements have become, yet she’s been in cigarette ads wearing skimpy soccer jerseys with her legs spread open.

And the number one epidemic in America is obesity–what’s wrong with scaring kids into being skinny?

Some people aren’t built to be skinny, and never will be skinny. Some people can be big and perfectly healthy, because that is what is in their genes. Skinny isn’t a great word. What’s wrong with scaring people into being healthy and not an extreme of 600+ pounds, or only skin and bones? Not much. But each person is healthy at a different BMI. Each person needs a different percentage of calories, and carbs, and all that. Sometimes it’s based on the body you want to have, and sometimes it’s based on life style alone.

There’s some skinny people out there, and they are that way naturally, and by no means would I tell them to ‘EAT SOMETHING!’ and give them a complex just because they are below the ‘average’ of body weight. And there are some people out there who are larger, and will always be larger, and I wouldn’t tell them to go on a diet. Because they have no control over their own genes.

We should be educating children, and people in general, to be healthy. To maintain a healthy weight, whatever that may be for them personally, based on height, and genes, and all of that. Not scaring them.

And don’t use things she may have done in the past, before she became informed or opened her eyes, against her. Sure she did those things. But I’m certain she looked back at those ads she did herself and felt much the same things she felt about all the other ads. The ways they skewed the public opinion, how they skewed the view of women, etc. I’m certain she wasn’t modeling at the time when she realized how skewed the ads were. It likely came some time after.

Is the full version removed?
I need it!