Zoë Bisbing
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2025
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And I think to sort of answer your question and it is, it's it's not particularly positive answer, but
There is this big disconnect between what the ideals are.
And what is reality for most people's just genetics, most people's biology.
And I was recently reading a statistic that like in puberty, for example, it's something like forty to seventy pounds of weight gain is sort of to be expected in terms of the growth needs of a child.
And you know, puberty, for example, is this time where if we're really just looking at what's natural, the body should be chunking up.
for example.
And I think about puberty when I walk by this tween store.
Like those are the that's the age for puberty.
And these mannequins look a very specific way that I think we can all everyone listening can kind of imagine what like a little preteen body mannequin might look like.
And so this is sort of an illustration of the dilemma that the whether it's for children, tweens, teens, adults,
The ideals are so out of reach for most people, and there's so much value, like Leslie was describing, ascribed to these ideals that it leaves
m many people, most people, and particularly young people who are just also trying to figure out who they are in the world.
Quite lost and confused about like, am I okay as I am?
Um, we certainly want them to feel that they are okay as they are, but the culture is a really important piece of this because we're not always seeing the representation that we really need to see in order to support this idea that however you are, however you look.
is right and that it's not about change.
But this is a very, very hard concept to interrupt, but but we're working on it.
Yeah, there's a there's a couple others I I think are relevant.
One, I mean, unfortunately that stereotype of eating disorders affecting girls is not, you know, it's not untrue that they that there are very unrealistic appearance ideals that girls are facing.
Uh uh it it's they're facing boys, they're facing kids that don't con conform to, you know, the gender binary as well.
Um, and it's been interesting to r uh speak to some of the researchers that are looking more specifically at the gender non-binary trans community of kids because there's a limit on res, there's not very much research around that.
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