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Body Image: Anorexia v. Obesity
April 10, 2006
What is my deal with titles lately? That one sounds like a Dateline special.
Really, I just wanted to link up this post on Feministe by Piny. I had really never thought about what Piny posits there...that there is a double standard in how health is measured in the context of the two eating disorders. Generally, anorexia is measured by death rate, and obesity is measured by a size/acceptability rate. There is not really a health-based measurement on either end of the spectrum. If you are fat, you are automatically unhealthy...if you are thin, you are generally not deemed to be unhealthy unless you are dead.
Wow. That kind of stopped me in my tracks today. There's more conversation about it here and here. And I actually wanted to link up this post by that smarty-pants, Stentor Danielson:
Information about the activities of other parts of the hierarchy is reduced to a few summary numbers (dollars spent or bushels of cotton grown or SAT scores, etc.). These few numbers become all-important, creating an incentive to "game" them in ways that make the indicator look good without actually improving the underlying facts that the indicator is supposed to be measuring. One of the key problems in the Soviet economy -- a quintessentially Hierarchist system -- was just this sort of number-polishing. This is exactly what the weight loss obsession does -- instead of addressing the underlying issue (health) in a holistic way, it sets up a single quantity as a measure of success, and then focuses on "fixing" that indicator.
Not bad for a toss-off response to Ampersand's epic tome about the weight-loss industry.
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