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Spiwak · 05-04-2006, 05:28 PM

I don't see the problem with Lara. I'm a teenager and no teenagers I know give a shit about anorexia-as-beauty. Most if not all the teenagers I've met are aware that Lara Croft and Barbie are exaggerations of the ideal, and are actually kind of charming in that way.

Why is it that no one complains about ideal male figures or over-exaggerated muscle-men?

I don't think an obsession with beauty is anything new. Rhysical beauty is culturally biased though (Venus of Willendorf was the ideal woman figure for the culture it originated from, just as Venus de Milo or the Discus Thrower were for the Greeks). Just remember that for a few centures corsets were the rage among anybody who's anybody. Also remember that Roman women swallowed tape worms to make themselves thinner.

EDIT: Trep what culture is the neck-ring theng from? I heard about them some time ago but I havn't been able to find anything on them because I didn't know their name.

05-04-2006, 05:28 PM	#24
Spiwak is not wierd Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,148	I don't see the problem with Lara. I'm a teenager and no teenagers I know give a shit about anorexia-as-beauty. Most if not all the teenagers I've met are aware that Lara Croft and Barbie are exaggerations of the ideal, and are actually kind of charming in that way. Why is it that no one complains about ideal male figures or over-exaggerated muscle-men? I don't think an obsession with beauty is anything new. Rhysical beauty is culturally biased though (Venus of Willendorf was the ideal woman figure for the culture it originated from, just as Venus de Milo or the Discus Thrower were for the Greeks). Just remember that for a few centures corsets were the rage among anybody who's anybody. Also remember that Roman women swallowed tape worms to make themselves thinner. EDIT: Trep what culture is the neck-ring theng from? I heard about them some time ago but I havn't been able to find anything on them because I didn't know their name.