"Mauritanians question the 'fat' look"

[La_Tigressa_Peligrosa]

As Mauritanian nomads drift to the city, modern life is beginning to challenge one of their most cherished traditions - the force-feeding of young girls....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6591835.stm



Makes more sense in this context: mothers still come to him to request pills for their daughters, believing that thin girls are shameful because they look "sick".

To be "sick" is often a euphemism for having HIV/Aids in Africa.


Thoughts?

[Watser?]

They said they want to be "a normal size" like the Lebanese pop stars.

"Now Mauritanian men are looking at Lebanese singers and starting to compare them with us," said 19-year-old Aicha.

"They look at their wives and say 'why aren't you like those singers?' There are some who've got divorced because of those Lebanese singers.

"The men say to their wives 'why are you fat, why aren't you like Britney Spears?"

Yay for progress...

[Stormlight]

why aren't you like Britney Spears?

:wall:

[La_Tigressa_Peligrosa]

Yay for progress...

:yup: From force-feeding to anorexia in one step!