Matt S. PA7 TSIS

Susie Orbach "Fat as a Feminist Issue"

When you first glance a the writing by Susie Orbach “Fat as a Feminist Issue” it might take awhile to figure out what she is really trying to say. But after reading the whole article it’s apparent that she is proving some excellent points that women are being shown as having perfect body figures in magazines and television commercials, to try convince women into thinking they should look like them. Women who try to form their selves into these “molds” are not as satisfied and happy as those who just live like they want to and don’t pay attention to the ads. Women that are over weight from compulsive eating isn’t a problem that they don’t know how to change it’s a fact that they do it on purpose to basically rebel against the multi billion dollar fashion industry that show them as being thin women and also society is taking it as a matter of not being able to control themselves. If you look back to the different time periods when different “fads” have come and when, the women in those eras have changed with them. They have changed because the companies have shown that by changing their bodies and forming into the molds that they will be happier and more successful. However in Eric Schlosser’s article he is stating that the food industry is purposely targeting the children, not anyone else, to try to make them life long customers. But what he isn’t saying is how that the children aren’t being shown in these commercials is little healthy kids out having fun or showing them how successful they can be by buying their product, which in Orbach article she is clearly giving fact’s that the companies try to get women to think there is an image that they have to obtain by instilling images of happy and successful thin women.