Okay, you don't have to ask me twice.
Seriously, you make some good points.
"Society" does put out a lot of images of especially thin women, for a lot of reasons. And if this causes distress to anyone, well I'm sorry about that and I don't think it's done to cause harm.
These images don't seem to encourage people (especially women) to keep themselves at a health weight -- obesity is just way out of control (especially in the small town area where I live -- it's not so extreme other places).
It would be nice if there was a way "society" could put out some effective messages about why it's in the best interests of individuals to keep themselves down to a healthy weight. But I don't really know what those "effective" messages might look like.
I hope that it is not to intentionally cause harm, and you don't have to apologize, enjoying the human body is not a crimes or a fault. It is natural and healthy to appreciate beauty. I just believe that there are a lot of people in our culture that see only one thing as beautiful and if you don't look like that then the message gets put out there that there is something wrong with you. The most suseptible to this messages are the young. Those who have not had a chance to develop a healthy self image and all they have to go on are the images in the media and how people react to them. And when I say young I mean as young as 5 years old, they are seeing this and they are paying very close attention.
It would be nice if there was a way "society" could put out some effective messages about why it's in the best interests of individuals to keep themselves down to a healthy weight. But I don't really know what those "effective" messages might look like.
The best thing that we could do is to get images of real people out there. Look at how effect the "Subway" ads with Jared are. People can identify with him. He's not so far out there that people think they have to kill themselves to be like him. We need more images like this, especially of women. Real women, not made over air-brushed, plastic, impossibly perfect women.