THIN

Last night after I finished watching The Wire on HBO there was a special that came on about women with eating disorders, aptly titled THIN. As I was watching these women struggle with having to eat a cupcake on their birthday's, I started thinking about our culture and why being lethally thin is something we place such a high value on.

Maybe it is because food is easily accessible here, it is not like we have to raise our own animals and then hopefully have enough water or grass for them to grow big enough so that they can feed a whole village, or that we have to scrounge around for edible grubs when we can't make it out to the local grocery store.

I know that there are a myriad of factors invovled in the craze of being thin, but I still have a hard time reconciling the fact that Americans are either obese or choosing to starve themselves when there are thousands of people who are on the verge of starvation because they literally do not have anything to eat.

Personally, I would rather eat more than 2 peanuts a day and be able to run as far as I want to or bike as long as I wanted to without my heart stopping.

I say eat the damn cupcake.