You’re right that it is distasteful to encourage eating disorders, but assuming the model has an eating disorder is also distasteful. Some people are naturally that skinny. The problem is that the fashion industry makes it out to be far more realistic and achieveable than it is. However, it is still a hurtful thing to say. I look like that. I do not have an eating disorder. The OP’s comment is insulting to me. I get shit on all the time for my weight and it really sucks. Insulting someone for being fat is horrible, but insulting someone for being skinny is 100% OK, right?
The fact that you choose to take personally what was a comment about a model in an industry that specifically selects for extremely underweight models regardless of how they achieve that weight doesn’t mean that it was an insult directed at you. You are not the subject here. You may have a unique metabolism, but the industry projects an unhealthy and largely unattainable image for the vast majority of people.
We aren’t ridiculing the model, we’re concerned for their health…
That’s not skinny, that’s starvation thin. The person in the picture is clearly not eating enough, any suggestion otherwise is just giving power to the notion that it’s healthy to be that underweight.
Not eating enough food is an eating disorder, regardless of the cause of it.
You’re right that it is distasteful to encourage eating disorders, but assuming the model has an eating disorder is also distasteful. Some people are naturally that skinny. The problem is that the fashion industry makes it out to be far more realistic and achieveable than it is. However, it is still a hurtful thing to say. I look like that. I do not have an eating disorder. The OP’s comment is insulting to me. I get shit on all the time for my weight and it really sucks. Insulting someone for being fat is horrible, but insulting someone for being skinny is 100% OK, right?
The fact that you choose to take personally what was a comment about a model in an industry that specifically selects for extremely underweight models regardless of how they achieve that weight doesn’t mean that it was an insult directed at you. You are not the subject here. You may have a unique metabolism, but the industry projects an unhealthy and largely unattainable image for the vast majority of people.
We aren’t ridiculing the model, we’re concerned for their health…
That’s not skinny, that’s starvation thin. The person in the picture is clearly not eating enough, any suggestion otherwise is just giving power to the notion that it’s healthy to be that underweight.
Not eating enough food is an eating disorder, regardless of the cause of it.