> >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> >>What's interesting (if not surprising) is that
> while Americans,
> >>male or female, are on the average among the
> fattest of the world,
> >>American actors in Hollywood movies now display
> the best toned
> >>bodies of all movies of the world.
> >
> >Fat is a class issue. I've heard it said - and
> though I haven't
> >factchecked this, it sounds entirely right from
> what I've seen -
> >that there isn't a single fat CEO of a Fortune 500
> company. And
> >contrast slender marathon runner Robert Rubin with
> the 300-lb steak
> >and wine for breakfast J.P. Morgan. Urban yuppies
> of both sexes are
> >generally fit; plumpies are rare.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Right. American workers are given fantasies of fit
> bodies by
> Hollywood, rather than high wages, national health
> care, & vacation
> days when they can exercise.
>
> Yoshie
This made me think of a Phil Gramm quote I saw the other day: "Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?" The "unfit" body can have political relevance as a target for stigma (lazy, ugly, etc.).
Alec
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