Content warning: discussion of eating disorders
Eating disorders don’t have a color, gender or weight, but in the world of diagnosis and treatment, they are governed by age-old clichés.
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Emily Johnston, Assisstant Opinion Editor
• October 16, 2020
Picture Cassie Ainsworth, the character from “Skins,” not eating for 3 days for an arbitrary reason and teaching her classmates how not to eat.
She was the quintessential thinspo, or thinspiration,...
I am fat. Now before you go and counter my statement with, “You are curvy” or, my personal favorite, “You are not fat, you are beautiful,” as if being fat is synonymous with ugly.
The truth...
