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so here& #39;s an article about increasing eating disorders among teens during the pandemic that does not mention how public health weight stigma might be contributing: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/well/family/teens-eating-disorders.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/2...
so many fat and in-betweenie folks i know with eating disorders - myself included - can point to specific medical & public health interventions that contributed to our illnesses. i& #39;ve seen nothing in the literature on this.
centering thin people in eating disorders discourse promotes eating disorders, mostly among not-thin people who think our disorders "don& #39;t count."
it would be really nice if, in 2021, the media sucked less about this than in 2001, but so far i don& #39;t really see it.
it would be really nice if, in 2021, the media sucked less about this than in 2001, but so far i don& #39;t really see it.
there is a mention of "diet culture" at the end of the article. this is why i am tired of the phrase "diet culture." parents cannot protect their children from "diet culture" if the directive to diet is coming from a goddamn pediatrician. it& #39;s weight stigma. always has been.
"diet culture" encourages us to imagine the problem is the vanity of thin people who do not & #39;need& #39; to diet and get sucked into self-destructiveness, when in reality the problem is that fat people cannot go a single day without being urged to slowly kill ourselves for our "health"
tired: eating disorders are driven by an irrational fear of being fat
wired: eating disorders are driven by observations & experiences of how terribly fat people are treated, and how much better thin folks are treated by comparison
wired: eating disorders are driven by observations & experiences of how terribly fat people are treated, and how much better thin folks are treated by comparison
*not all eating disorders! eating disorders also happen for a lot of other reasons! I think the above holds true WHEN body image is a major concern in eating disorders which it isn& #39;t always!
