Tuesday, February 16, 2010
But why???
Research shows, and I know I'll have to provide, that eating disorders are less prevalent in the Black community than in the White community. Researchers suggest this is because the black community has a curvier body ideal and "plumpness" has been accepted in the black community as beautiful and also as a status symbol. Since the white "thin" beauty idea is seen as unrealstic among women of the black community, black women are able to disconnect from this idea and are less susceptible to eating disorders than white woman. My question is why do black women become victims of chemical relaxers and develop a dislike for kinky hair and dark skin?
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I love the way you pull out nuggets of truth that might be related to your issue and entertain the idea that they might be related in some way. This one IS! You don't say how, though, and you move back to your own question, but you're right in sensing that it's worthy of examining as a possible clue to the whole puzzle. But HOW is it related? I think I may know, but I want to let you try to figure it out, Shea. How is that that fact you mention at the top of your post related to a general pattern that concerns your particular issue? Good luck Detective!
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