ahhhhhh don't even get me started on this poor girl

I am deeply saddened to see some poor 13-year-old girl featured in the Health section of BBC, proclaiming her weight-loss goal to look good in a bikini. And here we are, affirming her fixation with her outward appearance with a year-long research program and news coverage.

She proclaims, "This month I lost 6cm off my waist."

I am just wondering--if the purpose of the the program Watch It! is to teach kids from ages 8-15 the health- and internal-importance of physical activity, nutrition and emotional well being--why the fuck are we humoring conversations about this young girl in a bikini and looking good in jeans? Why is this even part of the discussion?

I wonder--does society pretend to care about health so it can regulate female bodie?...because there is a fucking huge difference. Not to mention, even healthy bodies are not all naturally "thin" by whatever skewed scale we have.

If we are trying to teach kids health and confidence, why are we reiterating that their worth boils down to how they look in clothes? Is this poor girl really doing anything positive for in internal-self by dwelling on how much weight her gym teacher thinks she lost? Or what shirt she will fit into next Christmas--which is, by the way, all the article talks about.

FUCKING HILARIOUS that the article fails to mention that if one is in touch with oneself, emotionally healthy, eating well-balanced meals, receiving appropriate nutrients, and fulfilling cardiovascular needs--THEN ONE NEVER HAS THE NEED TO BE ON A DIET. If you are in tune with yourself, understand your body's needs, do not eat emotionally, understand when you are full, and the like--your body will remain at its natural set point.

But we don't talk about these things. We only fuel obsession. We only fuel self-regulation and restriction. We only fuel that internal value is predicated upon external value. We never teach self-fulfillment.

So you "flabby" little thing, you--we don't like you when you are healthy or when you feel good about yourself. We only like you when you are so obsessed with how you look that you will NEVER stop obsessing, and you will ALWAYS be on a diet, and you will ALWAYS feel bad when you eat a morsel, and you will ALWAYS have to compulsively exercise, and you are SO OBSESSED with your appearance that you weigh yourself all the time, and you will ALWAYS be neurotic about what you eat, and you will NEVER sit and eat with your friends comfortably, because you will ALWAYS be worried about how much and what you are eating, and you will ALWAYS LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR FROM EVERY ANGLE, every day, and you will double and triple check in different mirrors and in different lighting--because we ONLY like you when you lose weight. And universe forbid you stop, because we won't like you, and you won't have a phony reason to mask your perpetual insecurity as confidence.

Fucking disgusting.