College is the New Diet Plan! According to some idiot…

By Abby

Any girl who has been to college realizes the pressure that you feel to be slim. I know that when I first arrived at my college campus, it was hard to ignore all of the stick thin girls strutting around. No matter how much you try to completely ignore it, the feeling that maybe you should lose some weight or get in better shape will inevitably come over you at some time throughout your four years.

Although I eventually developed a healthier lifestyle in college, there were times when my slimming down habits were not necessarily healthy or good for me in the long run (i.e. fad diets). I was lucky that I never developed a serious eating disorder like so many college girls do after feeling all of the pressures to be thin.

Well, apparently, some genius dude thinks that the pressure girls feel is a great thing and that it will help them get healthy! Obviously, he has never been a girl in college and had to deal with any body image issues…

“As emotionally unpleasant as it might be, young ladies, going on to immerse yourself in a social culture where your excess weight is even more atypical could ultimately impel you to ‘fit in’ by trimming down. At the very least, you would come out of the experience with a college education which, down the line, could help pay for a personal trainer and gym equipment,” writes Robert Weider in his article “The Freshman Minus 15: College as a Diet Plan for Women”.

Really???

To suggest that although it may be unpleasant, all of this pressure is actually good because no matter what methods you use, you will want to be slimmer, is ludicrious in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way?

College, although great, is hard enough already for girls to deal with. How about suggesting a way to get rid of the expectations for girls to slim down instead of saying its actually healthy in the long run for girls to feel horrible about themselves and body weight?

This is just my personal opinion, but I think this guy has no idea what he is talking about and has no idea what the college experience is actually like for young women today!