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But it is, at least to me, an example that is wholly spurious. If people had to, on a regular basis, run away from sabertooth tigers, then it'd be valid. But for most people, running a sprint is about as necessary to everyday life as leveling up in World of Warcraft.I used the idea of beating 60 seconds in a 400m sprint as an example because most people can't do it if they are overweight (due to excess fat), if they are too muscular to do it, or if they are too skinny, meaning not enough muscle mass to perform such a feat.
Models are hired because they make an item of apparel look good. That's it. Nobody cares if they can run a sprint. They don't need to. This is reading an awful lot to me like "Why don't they hire female models who have the body type that I, T Trian, find attractive?"Why would it be such a bad thing to place similar standards on female models, hire women who are in-between a bodybuilder and a marathon runner?
Once again, you are equating muscular with healthy. I think we've had this conversation already.Wouldn't the majority of women be the healthiest that way (since AFAIK the exceptions to this rule are fewer than the majority)?
You are insisting that 'healthiest' matches up to a single body type. You are incorrect, particularly given that no nutritionist, physiologist, or sports scientist would define 'healthy' solely as 'being able to run a wholly unnecessary sprint'. And, in persisting in this, you are engaging in exactly the behaviour you complain about: dismissing all but one body type as acceptable.
No one -- not me, not other AW members, not models -- needs to have your approval to look the way we do. You have no basis for judging anyone as "unhealthy". And no one has a moral obligation to be healthy, for that matter. If someone wants to live on potato chips and Coke, or spend every night and weekend playing World of Warcraft, or bungy jump off bridges until they shake their brains loose, they have every right to do that. And if you make judgmental comments about how they look or how they live their lives, they in turn are likely to make judgments about what type of person you are.