I believe this represents a form of oppression. Some people think that this only oppresses women with image problems. I disagree. Do you know how many women have eating disorders of one sort or the other? There are women that starve their bodies of essential nutrients. There are women that eat everything that they want, and then feel guilty for feeling that full and purge everything, causing extreme harm to their bodies. Then there are the girls who hate themselves for eating, and that makes them depressed, which makes them eat even more and hate themselves more. All of this is because of the idea that the media puts forth that if y

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