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[truedelphi]

1. This type of study is very needed.

For a while my spouse did counseling for young women who were undergraduates in college.

It only took six months for him to reverse his feelings that women "have it made." This earlier conclusion was based on his watching his father provide for his mom and his family while growing up, while "Mom had men open doors for her," and defer to her in social situations.

But listening to young women describe their lives - the constant struggle to weigh twenty pounds less than feasibly possible if a person were to eat three meals a day, the need to look perfect, and be sexual enough to be considered desirable and popular without being considered the campus slut, (Supposedly women are now "liberated" but then why hasn't the word "slut" left the vocabulary?) and the confusion of needing to do it all: career, getting the perfect marriage partner, etc, plus having to resolve painful family situations, all this made him realize what a narrow tightrope so many young women are walking.

We scoff at the society in the Middle East for forcing their women into wearing a burqua, but isn't the stress put on young women to be the perfect size "00" an equally confining situation?