People descending from the sixteenhundreds and below had classes. Rich and poor were the main distinguished class. In places like Africa you could identify a person of a rich class by owning a significant amount of objects, land of servants. But what if you saw this person apart from his belongings?
Another way to distinguish a man’s wealth was by his weight.

Being over weight said to the people observing him was that he is wealthy because he ate well and very regularly. Being over weight was then considered sexy because power was sexy and people with wealth had power.

In the late eighties an aspiring rapper by the name of Sir Mix-a lot wrote a song called “Baby got back.” He explained to the people listening what he thought sexy was on a woman’s body – that being larger than the national standard of sexy.

Today, everyone is up in arms about Tara Banks and her apparent weight gain. She defends the weight gain saying things like “There is nothing wrong with being fat” and many people support her comments. A lot of people are even saying that being fat is sexy.

I am not writing a post about my thoughts on if fat is sexy or not, there is a time a place for that. What I want to shed some light on is why, all of a sudden, being fat is being seen as sexy?

Now I will admit that what the magazine covers present as sexy is a little over the top and not even those models shown can keep up that figure. But on the other side of the spectrum, can we honestly say that people who are over weight are now becoming the new national standard of sexy?

Is being fat seen as being sexy because we, as a population actually find meatier people attractive or is it that we, as a population are all becoming too lazy to get fit and now settle and say we are attracted to a larger proportion?

Once again, please don’t assume that I am writing about what I presume to be sexy.

People will argue that over weight people cant help it, that some are born big boned. And to that I will agree but what about the rest of us? I find it hard to believe that a large amount of the population is just big boned.

In a society where we have everything instantly or at least want it that way; being fit and thin – it now appears to be something that can’t be instantly achieved. Because of this lack of achievement, has being fit become a thing of the past? Is being fit and slim now becoming less attractive because fewer people can achieve and maintain it?

For someone like myself that has always struggled with weight gain; I can say that when I see a fit person I admire there commitment to eating properly, exercising regularly and staying committed to a healthy life style.

Today’s foods with barley any nutritional value and mass quantity of it has made it almost impossible for the regular Joe to maintain a decent sized waste line. But we shouldn’t mistake being fat as sexy because we are too lazy to stay fit.

There is this train of thought today that there are two apposing sides that don’t like each other and are opposite. These sides of powers, or forces, or “gods” – the good one and the bad one – are quite different from each other and are never in agreement. They didn’t create each other and have always just existed. One side thinks the other bad and themselves good, yet, when you are opposite of each other, one must be good and the other bad.

What do I mean when I call one of the powers good? Am I saying that I prefer one over the other – like pepsi to coke – or am I saying that one is in the wrong and the other in the right? And if a power is right, would it then not become the force that is “good?”

If I chose one side over the other just because I prefer to or because I am most accustom to it, I can’t really say that the word “good” has any value, it’s just what I prefer. But the word “Good” does have value and meaning.

If this is true, that good exists then there must be a third thing; some law or standard that governs what good is for something can’t be good if it has nothing to measure against it, just as bad cannot exist if it isn’t rejecting a standard of goodness.

Follow?

Example: I was watching the hockey game tonight. A player leveled another player with a hard check and everyone was up in arms. The commentators were quarreling over if the hit was a good legit one or a bad illegal one. Well, how would they even be able to argue over the legitimacy of the hit if a third power wasn’t in play to say what a legitimate hit is in the first place?

At the intermission, one of the analysts pulled out the rule book, stating clearly what is and isn’t a legit hit and the disagreement was settled.

Gotta love Hockey night in Canada.