HW 18: least favorite blog

I found my least favorite post at jezebel.com; the post was about models and what it takes to be one and what you have to go through. I found this post extremely disturbing and thought that is would be very unhealthy of young girls to read, especially girls who are self-conscious about their own body. The title of the post is Forbes: Models Are Starving, Financially Fucked & Computer Analyzed and it can be found at http://jezebel.com/gossip/business-models/forbes-models-are-starving-financially-fucked--computer-analyzed-308222.php.

Here is one quote from the post:
“Stop eating. Grow. Be at least five foot nine, weighing 110 to 120 Ibs. This would give you a body-mass index of about 16 to 18. "Models starve themselves, and we tell them to," says Richard Habberley, a top agent with Elite, which reps Victoria's Secret hottie Alessandra Ambrosio and Maybelline face Jessica White.”

This quote is degrading to women, it is enforcing the fact that women should look a certain way and if they don’t then they won’t make it as a model and they will be looked down upon from others. I think it is ridiculous that somebody would actually say this, he states “models starve themselves, and we tell them too” it is sad that somebody would admit to this especially when so many models and people have serious eating disorders that ruin their lives. We as a society should be trying to improve this impossible ideal body image, the last thing people should be doing is promoting it. I think that Jezebel is a fun website to look at and there are a lot of interesting topics, however this particular post I thought was extremely inappropriate.