Society says that women need to be skinny; Nature says that they need to gain weight. Which one is right? No matter how much women fight the battle of the buldge, nature usually wins because they need to store energy in the event that something should happen during pregnancy.

The problem is the desire to be refined. The word refined implies that something has been changed from its natural form to another form. The nobles tried to use their money to make all that is natural disappear. Attitudes are different now, so why do people still try to make these things that are natural go away? It probably has to do with the fact that many people do things because that is always how they have done them and how they will always do them. They do not think about why they do such ridiculous things, but they don't want to change.

This reminds me of a story:
A little girl asked her mother why she puts a glass of water in the oven every time she bakes a cake. This confused the mother because she did not know; it was merely what her mother used to do, so she asked her mother about it. Her mother said, "I don't know that is what my mother always did. Why don't you go ask your grandmother?" The woman went to her grandmother and asked her, "Why do we put a glass of water in the oven every time we bake a cake?" The grandmother responded, "I don't know why you do it. I did it because the rake was uneven and it kept the cake from rising unevenly."

This story illustrates how people do things because that is how their mother used to do things. Manners are really uessential and draw us away from nature.

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