“We have to be allowed to talk about X emaciated woman’s body so we can fight anorexia”
The issue is speaking about any one persons body, and what’s unacceptable or wrong with it, does nothing to move the needle for what bodies are acceptable. It contributes nothing to fat liberation. It doesn’t make fat people who have anorexia be taken seriously.
It’s doesn’t address that anorexia is a disease rooted in a need for control as well as fatphobia, and we live in a society that is in economic and political turmoil leaving people with little agency and control.
It doesn’t make people who are experiencing anorexia more likely to seek help. Especially with the way some of you are making it sound like anyone who is publicly struggling is wrong for doing so.
Hyper fixating on the bodies of specific women makes their bodies specials, and feeds into the social frenzy that pushes attention towards their looks. It doesn’t tell young women and girls who are inclined to develop ED’s to love themselves and seek help. It floods their timelines with triggering images and conversations.
You are not addressing the social and political causes of eating disorders. All you’re doing is piling onto more debates about women’s bodies and what they’re not meant to be.
