It's an interesting article. Very Telegraph though.
It attempted to rehash selective parts of the human origin. Men natrually join peer groups to hunt, but more importantly, to position themselves relative to other men and ultimately to the alpha male.
Women naturally remain at camp, building nests and seeking to be available to the Alpha or failing that to choose a lesser.
The feminists hate this fundimental reality, of course.
The weight issue however is really quite different.
Up to the 60s, diseases associated with diet were very rare. Most people who developed one of these ended up in a long stay institution.
I recall, around 1970, there was a pop group made up of two girl singers and I think two or three male backers. Anyway, one of the girls was said to have become fat and risked losing her place. She ended up with some terrible wasting disease. Drs said it was all psychological. I recall a photo which appeared in a newspaper of this woman being take on a streacher to an airplane to get treatment in the US. What happened next I don't remember.
By the end of the 70s, that disease had a name, Anorexia Neverosa. It was all the talk in the press. A plague which could kill thousands. Wanna loose weight girls? try this new diet. Celeb lets herself go and loses her man.
I knew a young girl in 1979 who developed it. She ended up in a specialist unit of the psychiatric hospital being continually visited by consultants and students who were really only interested in seeing this unusual disease.
She had the classic background. Overbearing parents, quite old. Immature. Few friends. Pretty but no dress sense.
By the start of the 90s, there were entire hospital wings occupied only by these kids. I worked in one briefly. I didn't normally work with children. They require specialit training and skills which I don't have. But all of these kids were basically similar. The girls, even into their early 20s exhibited traces of a personality more associated with eight year old girls. Clingy, overly fresh and friendly with adult men. The boys were reminiscent of very spoilt five year olds. Temper tantrums, provakative behaviours, such as spitting at you and such.
By the start of the century, there are hospitals dedicated to these children.
I apologise if this seems to be rather missing the point. I suggest it is exactly the point. Our society is demanding perfection from everyone. Perfection has become normality.
Men look at images of these scantly clad women so their wives and girl friends will see that and become insecure. Divorce is so easy, no woman can ever feel secure. She must contunially work to meet the standards of these pornographic images or risk being cast aside.
yet still, or health authorities push message that losing weight is somehow healthy. They define and redefine over weight. Anything less than perfection is not just unhealthy, it is socially wrong.
Where this goes next will be interesting.
