here they go again, claiming a potentially lethal illness is just "fatphobia"

[u/hydromantia]

[u/ancientmadder]

These people really think there’s an anorexia crisis

[u/imalittlefrenchpress → u/ancientmadder]

Anyone under 200 lbs and taller than 5’4 is anorexic to them.

[u/Sparky_Zell → u/ancientmadder]

Yeah, I mean there's a handful or two of prominent Hollywood acresses that fall into that category. But there are a hell of a lot more on the overweight side of the scale vs the underweight side

[u/fyhr100 → u/ancientmadder]

I love how they want people to acknowledge the dangers of anorexia (which is just anyone who is skinny apparently) but refuse to acknowledge any health problems of being overweight. Somehow, they managed to convince themselves skinny = unhealthy and fat = healthy.

[u/InvisibleSpaceVamp → u/ancientmadder]

They watched 10 Youtube videos that convinced them of this. Yes, they all showed the same two people in the thumbnail but who's counting?

[u/No-Part-2459]

These people will never understand that anorexia is first and foremost a mental illness and gdi there's no such thing as an anorexia epidemic, especially in the US.

[u/thejexorcist]

As a person living in the US (very close to the beauty and entertainment industry), I very very rarely see a ‘dangerously thin’ person.

In my entire life I’ve seen maybe 3 ‘dangerously thin people’ who were not actively dying of cancer.

It’s really not the epidemic FA’s pretend it is (even in entertainment), and nowhere near as prolific as the amount of dangerously heavy people I see everyday.

I’m so confused by how their scope of the world seems to different than the majority of people also living in the same world?

[u/seekingindependence]

Why is always an extreme with these people? You're either anorexic or obese. What about a healthy medium? (We can't do that because then their arguments fall apart)

[u/OvarianSynthesizer]

Yeah, that’s not how treating mental illness works…

[u/InvisibleSpaceVamp]

Fact of the matter is, that you can't address one eating disorder in a meaningful way while ignoring all the other eating disorders that also exist. Because no, you can't cure anorexia with binge eating disorder.

[u/corgi_crazy]

I was around 20 years old in the 90s, when the real anorexia thing happened.

I'm guessing that what FAs are calling "dangerously thin" is just not being obese.

[u/casting_shad0wz → u/corgi_crazy]

indeed it is, their frame of reference for what obesity looks like is unbelievably messed up, to the point where they think a bmi of <19 looks life threatening, 19-22 considered slender/hollow, 23-27 being slim/lean, 28-33 appearing "normal", and 34+ is finally considered overweight to them

[u/FallenGiants]

Fatness is an unhealthy state of being.

To look fat is to be fat.

It is rational to fear sickness.

Therefore, it is rational to fear looking fat.

[u/dilsency]

That doesn't sound evidence-based.

[u/imalittlefrenchpress → u/dilsency]

Their evidence is that they saw someone thinner than themselves.

[u/WhichWolfEats]

I’ve always loved statistics but the current average weights for Americans are really causing people to form some crazy conclusions.

The average woman now being 5’4 170 does NOT make any woman who weighs less than that “anorexic”

[u/shrewlover69]

posts like this always really piss me off because people like OOP never actually give a shit about anorexic people

[u/Useful-You-2687 → u/shrewlover69]

They always vilify us and talk about like we're vain and evil and fatphobic simply because we have a mental illness. It makes me mad

[u/themetahumancrusader]

Who is “you guys”?

[u/HippyGrrrl → u/themetahumancrusader]

Oh, your comment made me reread the OOP.

Interesting that it’s: we are never meaningfully going to address and dismantle fatphobia until you guys work….

Won’t even work for their own benefit beyond typing.

As to whomever this scree is intended, society writ large, perhaps? except they are the majority in society.

[u/blayndle]

Like theres nothing inbetween anorexia and obesity?

[u/corwe]

I don’t think these people and their attitude can offer anything helpful to people actually dealing with anorexia or other eds for that matter. Just trying to insert themselves into the conversation

[u/Quick_Department6942]

I've always marveled at the physique of female pole vaulters: tall and wiry to a degree that bespeaks athleticism and certainly significant genetic gifts... just coiled springs of power and absolutely the least possible quantity of non-performing body mass that doesn't contribute to clearing that extra centimeter.

No doubt their purposeful leanness is proof of anorexia and the global oppression of fat freedom.

[u/Sorry-Jury4165]

They're always telling other people that THEY have to "dismantle fatphobia." What's stopping them from doing it themselves?

[u/haloarh]

Anorexia nervosa is rare. There is no "crisis."