According to Webster Dictionary, being overweight is weighing in excess of the normal for one's age, height, and build. In today's society, individuals care about what they look like more than necessary. Individuals like Susie Orbach think that women care about their appearance and the opinions of others. In Orbach’s article “Fat Is a Feminist Issue,” she explains her opinion about women being overweight. Orbach incorrectly talks about the only goals women have are being beautiful, women being taught to see themselves as a contestant for men, and women that are overweight categorized at starting a rebellion. Right now there is a vast percentage of women in America who are overweight. Orbach explains in her article that women have to be skinny and beautiful to be accepted in society. Orbach states, “The media presents women either in a sexual context or within the family, reflecting a woman’s two prescribed roles,first as a sex object, and then as a mother” (Orbach 450). She believes that throughout the years women tend to focus on a different body part and how to make that part bigger or smaller depending on the males interests. Furthermore, women concentrate on their physique more than anything else. Women care what they look like and what individuals think of them. Finally, Orbach explains that women who are okay with being overweight start to rebel by saying they are okay with how they look and that people should like them for who they are. Being overweight is starting to link more to women because they have a high obesity percentage. It is often said that women only care about the way they look and how others look at them. Orbach states, “Physical fitness and beauty are every woman’s goals” (Orbach 448). I disagree with this statement. My goal as a woman is to become successful and enjoy my life, not to focus on the opinions of others. Orbach thinks she is speaking for all women when she describes how their goal is not only wanting to be skinny but also pretty; however, Orbach incorrectly generalizes women when she makes this point. If women want to eat and enjoy their food, are they considered not to be reaching their goals in life? In order for women to reach their goals, they don't have to be the skinniest or the prettiest to satisfy others. Orbach explains that women were put on this earth to satisfy men and they should care what they look like. In Orbach’s view,” Since women are taught to see themselves from the outside as candidates for men..” (Orbach 451). To this day, there is a significant percentage of women not interested in the male gender and are interested in females. In no way does society teach women to be candidates for men only. Women are their own persons and should be treated like it. If they want to have curves, muscles, or fat on their bodies, then let them. Society is obsessed with women’s ideal appearance, but there is no right way for women to look because all women have different body types. People are beginning to say that women who are overweight are starting a rebellion. Orbach has a strong opinion about the attitude women that are overweight have. Orbach explains,”...fat expresses a rebellion against the powerlessness of the woman, against the pressure to look and act in a certain way and against being evaluated on her ability to create an image of herself” (Orbach 452). Orbach is explaining how women are becoming overweight just to show everybody they don't need to be skinny for people to like them. By orbach’s opinion, you would think that the world's population of women has not been overweight before, as if being overweight is a new phenomenon. She has a narrow minded opinion because not every woman cares about their weight or other’s opinion on their appearance. If a person wants to gain weight or lose weight, it is that person's decision. I don't think a person should be viewed as starting a rebellion if an individual put on a couple pounds. Overweight is weighing in excess of the normal for one's age, height, and build but that's okay. Nowhere in that definition does it say being overweight is bad and leads to a rebellion. In Susie Orbach’s article “Fat Is a Feminist Issue,” she explains her narrow minded opinion about women being overweight. Orbach inaccurately talks about being beautiful is a woman's only goal, a woman being taught only to satisfy men, and a woman becoming overweight just to rebel. Works Cited Orbach, Susie. "Fat Is a Feminist Issue" They Say I Say With Readings. By Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. Ed. Russel Durst. 2E ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 198-210. Print Overweight Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster,Web. 13 Feb. 2017.