Coming from a girl, hopefully I can help you understand. We always want what we can't have and we see it all the time. Beautiful women with bodies of super models or just women who are skinnier than us.
If there is anyone who we fill is better looking or skinnier than us around, we feel inferior. It's natural. It makes us want to make ourselves look like that.
Think about all the ads on television, the models in magazine ads, even the mannequins in department stores (I know because I work at one). The mannequins are smaller than the size small clothes, so they have to pin the clothes to fit them. Sad isn't it?
Plus, you have to factor in society, as in friends, colleagues, and coworkers. You would be surprised at the bashing and immature stuff that women say to get attention and put down others and weight in proximity of other women. Like "Oh, I look so fat."
Or, "Man, I'm such a cow for eating this" and it will be a salad and breadstick. Are you catching my drift? It's a cruel world out there for us women.
And, society doesn't make it easier, considering runway models are a size 0 when the average woman is a size 14. Talk about a double standard. Plus, not cutting down men, but some guys can make girls feel horrible because they lust after or talk about the skinny, barbie girl, not the beautiful girl with curves that just walked by.
But, I know that not all men are like this, but a good bit are. You factor all that together and you get an average woman's world. She wants to look good, feel equal or superior to the women she is around, feel good in her own skin, and be desired by the male population.
We turn to what men lust after and what department stores and television show as acceptable and thus, we get so into our diets and downing ourselves. It would take a major turn in society and the male population to change this. It is so sad.
I've always been chunkier and curvy and it hit home when I read this. I hope one day it can change. You must love yourself.
Everyone is beautiful. I hope I've helped. :) Edit: Sorry, I meant to focus more on what the question was about.
But, most guys I know would rather go for a so-so attractive skinny girl, than an absolutely gorgeous curvy woman. Why? Because they're immature.
And, because I have found that they think that their male counterparts will cut them down for liking a curvier woman. (I have a lot of guy friends). It's true.
Most guys who are my age (late teens-early 20s) are only thinking about one thing: sex. They'd rather have sex with a banging body than a beautiful face. The guys that appreciate a curvier woman are mature and harder to find.
They realize that being a stick isn't what the term "woman" means. But, I think the mentality of men at the age range I mentioned above has a lasting effect on we women. We think we have to have a "hot body" before men will look at us, thus why we always diet and put ourselves down.
(And, most of the time, that's right because, as I've said above, men who appreciate a curvier body are older and more mature).
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