Monday, May 08, 2017

Cultural Obsession with Appearance

I just came across this: In a World Health Organization survey of 200,000 young people in forty-two different countries, "In every single country surveyed, girls were more likely than boys to report that they were "too fat"."

Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts girls and Women, p. 28.