vanna,

I see you've really upset suzie. You should know by now that with feminists, whatever you do, don't ask women to be accountable for their own actions.

Suggesting that women dress provactivley for their own gratification is the biggest of all taboos. Of course men look at good looking women but men will will look at a good looking woman no matter how they are dressed. Anyone who thinks women dress for men is kidding themselves.

We are probably just jealous of people like suzie. I mean not just anyone could coin the term 'vanka'. I think suzie must be on her way to a PhD too like 'Dr' Jocelynne. Aparently, an interst in children's beauty pagents is now enough to become a visiting fellow at Cambridge. Probably solved the big problems facing humanity in her undergrad degree.

Back to the topic (hopefully)

Body image and the ability to love yourself are real issues but so to is obesity. There are unhealthy extremes at both end of the scales.

Both extremes have long term health risks and both can increase the risks of unwanted teasing from other kids.

I don't think it's 6 year old kids who need the book about healthy diet though. It's the parents who set the examples for their kids and who fill them with junk food at every opportunity or who are so obsessed with their own looks that they set that obsession as the benchmark. From the kids I've seen around the overdoses of junk food are far more common than underfeeding kids in our society.

Regularly feeding kids so badly that they become obese is a form of child abuse consistent with other forms of neglect. It might be an indulgent neglect but it's still harming kids.

R0bert

The age should be more like sixteen year olds. Another example of out of control parents, living their failed dreams. If it was regulated it would be seen as communism, and go against the powers that made the laws.