Children (girls) are force fed to gain weight to prepare them for marriage. Being fat is seen as desirable and beautiful on women because that's a sign of wealth and a generous husband that provide good food. Being slim for women are associated with being poor and starving. For men however it's not attractive to be fat. Men are supposed to be fit or muscular. That means they're hardworking, strong and a good provider ready to fight for the wealth. Slim and fit women often stays single. Do this say anything about the Western world? Did this surprise you? Is it similar to our [e. g. Western] beauty goals? Tell me what you think of this.
#FatCamp#FatIsBeautiful in Mauritania #BeautyStandards Mother punishing the daughter to make her eat. Many parents also beats their children if they don't eat all the time.How women wants to look in Mauritania. She's considered Mauritania's version of "Angelie Jolie".
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Young Girls Force-Fed For Marriage In Mauritania, Thoughts?
Wow... I have so many words for that, but I think the narrator said it best: "This seems like child abuse, but there are no laws to prevent it"
To start, yes it is just as dangerous to view obesity as beautiful as anorexia. In the beginning the girls are a healthy weight according to height and age. The mothers admit doctors tell them force-feeding their children causes health complications such as diabetes, heart disease, and kidney failure. No matter what way you look at it, their beauty standard is unhealthy
I don't mind the part about the magazine. I think it's perfectly acceptable to not think Gigi Hadid is beautiful, but the mentality behimd it is a little off. I have a similar body type as Kim Kardashian, but her use of waist trainers and tape is excessive
Those poor girls are so young and impressionable. I honestly think it's worse to force them to marry so young than to force-feed them for it. The girl even says she wants to be fat, but says she doesn't want to get married. It's clear her basic human rights are being violated, but that it's culturally acceptable and the norm. But forcing the 10 year olds to throw up so they can keep eating is absolutely awful
Obviously the worst part is near the end when they talk about the medications women use to make themselves fat. Prednisone is a steroid I and many women I know have used for medicinal purposes, but disliked that it caused us to gain weight. The horrible tragedy of the one girl dying from taking medication to make her fat is similar to women taking parasites to make them thin, but it's beyond my comprehension for her sister to take the same medication afterwards
I always knew other countries had different beauty standards, but this opened my eyes to how dangerous they can be
Makes me wonder which is better. Being starved to death or being fed to be married to a "better future" If we look at history, women/girls have suffered greatly for the sake of "beauty" neck ring, lip dish, foot binding, super skinny, in this case force-fed to look healthy. i dont understand these but, I am sure there are worse. What can we do about it?
Good point! Actually some guys nowadays pump their bodies full of anabolic steroids to gain muscles. So men can also do all this crazy stuffs in the name of "beauty".
All it means is that society has done a poor job on differentiating between stupid people and not stupid people. This is like religion all over again. The masses take a oversimplified notion out of context and go bonkers with it. Sure, there's tbose connections, doesn't mean you have to be bloated like a hippo to be attractice, which is what people come to the conclusion of. So it's not about an overarching culture, culture is measured by the sophistications of a national body. It's more that there's lots of dumb people out there.
Well, it could go through some critical rigamarole but I think it would come out with more truth than fiction.
But Im happy to stand out. Uniformity is a cancer in my opinion. Not much a fan of anyone that says easy things to say, but you know the unpopular opinionated guy has some balls. Doesn't mean unpopular opinions are true, but there's fundamentally something wrong with the popular mind.
Isn't the beauty thing there similar to the Western world although the Western world has less forcing? I mean, in the Western world people tries to be slim and in this country people tries to be fat. People are often not happy with the way they looks and has a beauty standard. Eating disorders exists in the West too.
Oh come on. Forcefully feeding someone is not the same as people choosing to be skinny. Let alone the fact that girls in Mauritania are usually around 13-14 when they marry and they usually can't choose their husband (and their husband usually tends to be twenty or thirty years older than them).
Itâs similar to Western beauty standards in the sense that both cultures have pressures to look a certain way. Here the ideal is to be slim, there the ideal is to be fat. However, there is an incredible difference in the severity of these pressures and in how much they actually affect people. Here, some girls will starve themselves or go through a bunch of plastic surgery to meet beauty standards, but they choose to do that. Nobody forces them to, and there are people that would find them attractive even if they didnât do it, because a lot of peopleâs opinions and preferences vary, and they deviate from the ideal standard of beauty. There, slim girls donât get married because they arenât able to find a husband that thinks theyâre attractive. There, young girls parents will force them to overeat, and if their daughters donât want to, they will force-feed them, physically restrain them, give them drugs that could threaten their lives, and force them to throw up so they can keep stuffing themselves. The girls have no choice but to gain weight and adhere to the beauty standard, and theyâre forced to go to extreme measures to do so. Meanwhile, if I wanted to say âhey, fuck my cultureâs beauty standards,â stop showering, stop shaving, gorge myself on McDonaldâs every day and become morbidly obese, no one is going to force me to do otherwise. Iâm entitled to the choice of adhering to or deviating from the ideal, those girls are not.
I'll start off with saying that the idea of being forced to do anything is disgusting. Especially when it's forcing you to do something which is unhealthy and leads to serious health issues.
Now compared to western beauty standards, I don't think it's the same. Sure, you're under pressure by society to look a certain way, but that's purely due to how nature works. Everyone has expectations from others that they have to meet and are "punished" if they don't meet them, like being lazy or not showering regularly. It's your choice to decide if you're going to try and meet the expectations or not, as well as it's society's choice to either call you out for not meeting those expectations or not do it. If someone smells, you'll tell them they smell and you'll avoid them. If someone's lazy and it bothers you, you'll tell them they're lazy and you'll avoid them. Whenever something bothers you, you'll try to avoid it. Being fat is unhealthy and some people don't want to deal with the issues that can arise from that, so they avoid them. And it's not even their fault. Just like it takes willpower to be around someone who smells, it also takes willpower to be in a relationship with someone who's fat, albeit a lot less willpower. Also, a lot of people just find being fat not attractive. It's how natural selection works. We all look for certain traits in potential partners, for signs of health on them. Every preference we have is programmed into us by our genetic code. Being too fat is a sign of poor health and laziness, which is why we don't find it attractive. There's no hate in it, just biology, just nature. But unlike the topic of this story, you have a choice on how you'll look, which is why the western beauty standards are different than the ones mentioned above.
I don't find it less barbaric than all the crappy beauty procedures and surgeries with removing the ribs, crushing knee bones to lengthen them and all, and harmful facial creams that we use and ruin our health in the process. I remember a post where parents didn't allow their breast cancer patient daughter's breasts to get removed because 'no one will marry her' and she died a few months later.
We just don't consider plastic surgery as weird or barbaric because the WESTERN people have accepted it as normal and don't understand that people in Mauritius have taken this fattening system as normal too.
The key difference between those two things is choice. Women in the West choose to go out and get all these insane surgical procedures done in pursuit of a more attractive body, but the girls in the videos have no choice at all in the matter. Theyâre FORCED to overeat themselves to achieve an unhealthy beauty standard. Like in the video, the mother said that if her daughter said she didnât want to eat, she would âtie her up for a day or twoâ and essentially force food down her throat. THATâS what makes this process barbaric, and far more so than women in the West willingly removing their own ribs.
@CarpetDenim I did mention other examples where people have to do things against their own will as well. Plus it is even worse when women do such procedure to themselves.
Every culture has its own things, I don't think you can really compare these with each other. We don't have he right to judge on them, nor can they on us (for example, some girls in the Western culture are starving themselves to be "beautiful".) And they also aren't the only country where young girls are prepared to marry...
I'm pretty sure you know most peoples' diets aren't particularly healthy. People disciplining their eating habits is usually good to a point. We obviously weren't' designed to be as big as most of us are. People may feel like they are starving, but that's rarely true.
Were the girls you know forced to starve themselves? Did their parents take away their food, make them throw up when they ate something, or tie them up for days so they couldnât eat? I donât think so. Thatâs whatâs happening to the girls in the video though, how can you not see the clear difference between those two things? They have no choice, the girls you know do.
I've noticed black men do tend to like somewhat bigger women than white men on average. Obviously the girl you showed doesn't represent that though. My thoughts are most of people from these areas are extremely poor and can usually barely afford calories so her excess fat is a sign of wealth and status. I think this is largely a play on gaining pride from society and not proof that there is not inherent genetic inclination towards physical attraction or proof of relativism.
Sounds like another uneducated Neanderthalish 3rd world thing to do. Guess they don't know what else to do with a useless girl other than get rid of her to the first man who comes along as quickly as possible so they don't have to keep wasting money on food and water?
Personally I think it is terrible. For me personality, the ability to maintain a healthy body style is what is important. That means to me they know how to take care of them-self so they can take care of a partner-mate too!
It's mostly a tradition in Arabic countries but it's fading away slowly thank god It has nothing to do with Islam though, just for the ignorants out there who think so
I now no longer believe third world countries should get any help from the developed world since they are luxurious enough to engage in such degenerate behavior.
You will never see feminism go anywhere near talking about or fighting against it, but now they might use it as an example of how âtheyâ are oppressed.
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