Women in the world have become “fatphobic” that is, they are becoming obsessed with ridding their bodies of fat. One explanation for the obsession is the role fashion has played in weight regulation. However, it does not explain the millions of women with clinical eating disorders, or explain why eating disorders have bloomed into social diseases. The best explanation is that we have allowed the pursuit of a lean, fat-free body bloom into a religion. Achieving thinness has not al

The author was a lecturer at the University of Southern California when this she wrote this essay, so the information she relays is more than likely accurate. For the most part, the information she relates is significant, however, I do not feel that the information regarding the centuries before ours were necessary. Seid does a fine job of defining terms that need defining. However, the author fails to provide any statistics to back up her claims. Some people will not believe something if there are no numbers to back up the claim. The lack of statistics makes the paper seem too opinionated. There are also plenty of statistics to refute her claim. The rate of obesity in America has increased greatly, and while there are plenty of people in our country with weight loss problems, there are also a great number of people without them. The historical background seems accurate, but it is not relevant to the paper. The author also spends too much time discussing the history of weight regulation.

In conclusion, the author does a fine job of achieving her goals of showing how weight loss is a problem in America. She uses historical background to show the evolution of the “religion of thinness”. She has no hard evidence to back up her claims, and this weakens the paper, but she proposes ve

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