W Magazine Mocks Eating Disorders
Latest“Fashion Cliques” is supposedly a fun little listicle thingy on page 202 of the September issue of W. The concept: A guide which categorizes fashionable women as one of five different “types.” Including “The Girl Who Eats Her Feelings.”
Let’s start with “eating your feelings.” An eating disorder is a serious medical condition, and for a woman’s fashion magazine to joke about a health crisis which primarily affects females is really inappropriate. This magazine, as a general rule, is filled with pages and pages and pages of superslim models, dressed in the height of glamor. Fetishization of thinness is the business. It’s widely believed that idealized body-types in the media can be a factor in disordered eating behavior, so W should really know better.