What I would give to live just 50 years ago

50 years ago, it is the smallest generic time frame that refers to an American society that had a healthy mental image. Women may not have had as much of a societal role, but they were less shallow, they knew they didn't need to be paper thin to be attractive, they knew attractiveness was at a healthy average weight, not at 90 pounds. They didn't guilt people for their preferences, and they sure as hell didn't treat big girls as sub-human.

It was around 50 years ago that capitalism stepped in to do the one thing it does the worst. Sure, we get low prices, an amazing ability to create industries, but we also have a greed beyond greed because of our ability to make money off anything. Around this time, someone found an industry, they found the weight loss industry, and this started a propaganda campaign that not only was unknown to the consumer, but probably unnoticed by suppliers as well. Eventually, we reached today, the pinnacle and still rising. We don't even remember a time when you didn't need to be small to be attractive. Women are taught from birth to keep skinny. And the obsession arose, and it will not fall easily. Weight loss has expanded into a colossal industry, everyone needs to be thin, fat is evil, it isn't healthy, being average weight isn't even healthy anymore. The lies keep spreading, women are becoming more and more scrawny. The tinier the better, the bonier, the sexier. Food is the enemy, the industry itself spawns its customers, those predisposed towards obesity grow larger because they use food to relieve the stress of being treated unfairly, of being pressured to diet. The industry spawns its own problem, which is where we enter an endless cycle, it has started, and unfortunately, no one has thought of a way to end it.