Dara Torres-Amazing

I'm not making assumptions. I'm deciphering the transmission that you made. Remember in all written communications but ever more so in e-comms. Meaning and interpretation are made by the reciever. It came over like you somewhat blamed athletes (or athletic lookers) for eating disorders, which possibly has some relativity via coaches. The stay at home mom thing being more respectable for an over 40 woman came over like neanderthal view...forget dark ages. Whether it's societal or your personal view. Again, if a guy was to (seriously) say that or something like "women belong in the kitchen" he'd be branded a sexist. I just pointed out that you show some sympathy for that in your posting. To both points I suggested the main problem is the way media portays women as goods, and depreciable assets who's value is linked to their size, shape, colour, etc etc. These are at the crux of societial influence on eating disoarders.

I'm not making assumptions. I'm deciphering the transmission that you made. Remember in all written communications but ever more so in e-comms. Meaning and interpretation are made by the reciever. It came over like you somewhat blamed athletes (or athletic lookers) for eating disorders, which possibly has some relativity via coaches. The stay at home mom thing being more respectable for an over 40 woman came over like neanderthal view...forget dark ages. Whether it's societal or your personal view. Again, if a guy was to (seriously) say that or something like "women belong in the kitchen" he'd be branded a sexist. I just pointed out that you show some sympathy for that in your posting. To both points I suggested the main problem is the way media portays women as goods, and depreciable assets who's value is linked to their size, shape, colour, etc etc. These are at the crux of societial influence on eating disoarders.