jumiyori:

29lives:

In Mauritania, where big is beautiful and stretch marks are sexy, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day — more than four times that of a male bodybuilder — to prepare them for marriage. - Marie Claire Magazine

…. I have often muttered under my breath after overindulging on fatty foods that I wished (Western) society’s beauty ideals promoted curves rather than sticks, but this is horrifying.

Sometimes you can only explain how absurd something is by exposing people to its extreme opposite. We probably sound as crazy to them as they do to us, and we’re both wrong.