"36-24-36", trailer

An insightful feature length documentary film, made by pre-adolescent girls, that explores the issues of female body image and its correlation with eating disorders.

The film gives the viewer a firsthand perspective of Jessica and Shannon's battles with anorexia while lending itself to the professional opinions of counsellors and dieticians who work with adolescent women. It also explores the reality and insights of pre-adolescent girls who, prior to making this film, thought very little about the perception of female body image within our society.

The film approaches the concept of female body image and its correlation with eating disorders from a totally pre-adolescent perspective, as it was made by a small group of 12-year-old girls in Kitimat, BC, with the supervision and support of two volunteers who work as child & youth clinical counsellors.

For more information, please contact Roderick Taylor at maskremovalproductions@telus.net.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• eating
• disorder
• anorexia
• bulimia
• body
• image
• female

[tamapalagi]

There's nothing wrong with being beautiful. Their is an ideal look and that has been progranned in us from nature. Why are people considered ugly? Fatness represents illness . Beauty equals health.

[MaskremovalProd]

If there is an ideal 'look' that has been programmed in us from nature, then why does the criteria for that look continually change? The body mass index of women has been idealized very differently throughout our history; the Victorian era considered overweight women to be beautiful and prestigious, the 20's saw a more masculine look as beautiful, anorexic figures did not come into fashion until the 60's, and plastic surgery enhancement is very recent. Beauty is socially constructed, not innate.

[stubbles775th]

dschwartz33 and durge - you're both pricks who are more than likely fat and living in your parent's basement. Grow the f'k up.

A woman is far more attractive with 20-30lbs extra weight, than being 20-30lbs under weight. Seeing bone isn't healthy, nor sexy. You want that? Go dig up a skeleton and f'k it.

Dicks like you are why there are so many f'kd up, image-obsessed girls today. Always pushing them to lose weight. Take them as they are, f'k heads.

[genet13]

@misstiggykins THANK YOU! It is infuriating to have a serious mental illness - like schizophrenia or Asperger's - written off as cultural vanity. Disordered eating and eating disorders are separate issues people keep conflating so they might better understand a compulsion so contradictory to basic survival instinct. Someone who looks at a model and feels bad isn't starving themselves for the same reasons someone who was sexually assaulted as a child and has a damaged GABA receptor does, right?

[genet13]

@steveo20007 Congratulations that your weight-restrictive standards have enabled you to date women without any standards. Power based on subjective attractiveness is not something the woman possesses but only what a heterosexual man grants her. It's bullshit.

[MrBoredom]

Sorry, you could be a super model with a perfect figure, but you will only attract shallow guys. And have short relationships with them. Most men eventually stop looking for a Pretty girl and start dating the ones with personality. So stop dieting and just be yourself for a little bit. You would be surprised.

[marieschild]

I used to be 5'6" and weighed 49kg. I am now happier, even though I'm over 70kg! I wish I could be thinner, but as I grew older, I now care less of what people think of me than when I was a teenager! Hey, you only live once so eat that cake if you want to!

[Peeku3]

For me, I wanna be skinny cuz I know I'll have more confidence. Being fat at my short height made me shy and akward. I started getting fat once my parents got divorce cuz my dad wasnt a good parent in the feeding section. It became a habit and I grew up fat in a school were looks were what mattered. I was never excluded but I wasnt invited to anything either. For me, being skinny will help me open up and be pretty and confident. I dont wanna be skin and bones but flat and not look pregnant. =/

[Rinsuki]

Yeah people lose focus and start bashing overweight or underweight people. People have their preferences, but don't let it stop your world. I say take me as I am or take none of me. Desperation looks bad on anyone. Maintaining what's healthy for you should be priority. Why break our backs for someone to think we look good when really they are not anything related or whom we're sleeping with?

The problem here is not fatness/thinness its a symptom of something much more i.e. our mental instability

[steveo20007]

Being a women is very fair, if you are skinny and hot then you'll get whatever you want, if you are not then, well you're screwed. It's very linear, the hotter you get the better you'll get treated, and vise-versa. It's good that girls see this and try to move up the scale to get treated better, but they have a problem accepting their place if they can't. I'm a good looking guy and 105-115 is the weight limit i have for girls that i would date.

[mitchqqqqqq]

@LadyBludgeon 6'1'' with a 6 pack; thats me baby! i win!