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The following is My Theory on the Cause of Female Eating Disorders due to males subconsciously pressuring females to be both male and female in their appearance—in other words, tall and thin like a male, but short and fat like a female—and the females are responding to this pressure, through eating disorders, in order to appease the males and to be considered sexually attractive by the males:
My Theory on the Cause of
Female Eating Disorders
My theory on the cause of female eating disorders begins with hunting and gathering, or foraging.
I theorize that males have been sexually bonding, or relieving sexual tensions, with other males, practically since the dawn of humankind, because they were spending most of their time away from the females while they were out procuring food for the tribe (at least, after the invention of dwellings, or shelters).
And the females have been sexually bonding, or relieving sexual tensions, with other females, practically since the dawn of humankind, because they were spending most of their time away from the males while the males were out procuring food for the tribe (at least, after the invention of dwellings, or shelters).
And the males would return from their food procuring expeditions and the females would process the foods that the males procured into something edible for the entire tribe to consume. That way, the females could be home with their young children (protected from natural predators and inclement weather by their dwellings) nursing and/or nurturing the children until they reached maturity. And the males would, again, go out on food procuring expeditions.
Therefore, while the males were out on their food procuring expeditions, they would relieve sexual tensions with their fellow males. And because males do not shoulder the responsibility of pregnancy and childbirth, nursing and nurturing, but do shoulder the responsibility of hunting and gathering (and later, farming, or the growing of crops and the raising of livestock), the males are naturally tall, thin and muscular, because they are workers—who are designed to support the females in childrearing.
In contrast, because females do shoulder the responsibility of pregnancy and childbirth, nursing and nurturing, their bodies are naturally shorter, fatter and softer than the males, since their bodies need to have enough stored fat, during the lean times of food procurement, in order to keep both themselves alive and their nursing children, because they are nurturers—who are designed to be supported by the males in childrearing.
So, I theorize that the males are naturally bisexual, due to engaging in sexual activity with both females and other males. Therefore, while the males are out on their food procuring expeditions, the males are sexually bonding with each other. And that is why males are "wired," so to speak, with a subconscious impulse, if you will, to be sexually attracted to tall, thin and muscular males, as well as short, fat and soft females!
Plus, I theorize that females are also naturally bisexual, due to engaging in sexual activity with both males and other females. Therefore, while the females are nursing and nurturing the young children in their shelters, the females are sexually bonding with each other. And that is why females are "wired," so to speak, with a subconscious impulse, if you will, to be sexually attracted to short, fat and soft females, as well as tall, thin and muscular males!
And I further theorize—because humans have been hunting and gathering up until about 12,000 years ago—that the 'hunter-gatherer' males were "wired," so to speak, to engage in sexual activity most often with other males, since they had to spend most of their time hunting and gathering in order to keep the tribe alive. And the 'hunter-gatherer' females were also "wired," so to speak, to engage in sexual activity most often with other females, since they had to spend most of their time with other females—in their shelters, which were protection from natural predators, as well as from inclement weather—while the males were out procuring food.
Additionally, males are very much visually-oriented with regard to sexual attraction; so, the males are attracted to "the looks" in a sexual partner. And females are very much emotionally-oriented with regard to sexual attraction; so, the females are attracted to "the personality" in a sexual partner.
In conclusion, then: males are subconsciously pressuring females to be both male and female in their appearance—in other words, tall and thin like a male, but at the same time short and fat like a female—because that is how the males are "wired" to think. And the females are responding to this pressure, through eating disorders, in order to appease the males and to be considered sexually attractive by the males!
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"
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My Writing Notes:
The reason that I wrote this prose can be summed up with the following statement: "...Males are subconsciously pressuring females to be both male and female in their appearance—in other words, tall and thin like a male, but at the same time short and fat like a female—because that is how the males are 'wired' to think. And the females are responding to this pressure, through eating disorders, in order to appease the males and to be considered sexually attractive by the males!"
And this prose was also published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this prose applies to the message I am trying to convey through "Poet, Artist and Philosopher."
This prose was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://poetartistandphilosopher.blogspot.com
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"Hunter-gatherer" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"A hunter-gatherer or forager society is a nomadic society in which most or all food is obtained from wild plants and animals, in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species. Anthropologists have remarked that the term foraging is a more appropriate description of the predominant food source for most non-agricultural groups: Gathering is a far more important source of food than is hunting for the majority of non-agricultural societies, according to Richard Borshay Lee.
Foraging was the ancestral subsistence mode of Homo. As The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers says: 'Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying at least 90 percent of human history. Until 12,000 years ago, all humans lived this way.' Following the invention of agriculture, hunter-gatherers have been displaced by farming or pastoralist groups in most parts of the world. Only a few contemporary societies are classified as hunter-gatherers, and many supplement, sometimes extensively, their foraging activity with farming and/or keeping animals..."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer
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This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 230 was edited on December 7th, 2023.
"Prose is using all of the words that are necessary in order to describe all that is necessary to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
