An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.
We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds.
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.