3-25-10 Thinner Than Thou by Kit Reed - Fiction

3 - You think negative body image is a problem now? Read this book as find out just how bad it can get. Body perfection is the religion the Thinner Than Thou creating a multi-billion dollar industry that makes today's industry look like a start up. Face lifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, and stringent dieting are practically required to survive in this world not to mention having a constant fear of being cited by the Fashion Police. Eating disorders are dealt with by a group of psuedo-nuns called the Dedicated Sisters and, ruling over the thin empire, is Reverend Earl. Porn is no longer about women and men of bodily perfection having sex, it's about obese men and women eating. I kept having awful flashbacks to the movie "Feed" which, while very good, is gag inducing in the way food and weight are viewed as erotica. This book hits quite close to home in that it doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to see our society heading down this road.