Eating Disorders: Fashion Trend or Disease

Unfortunately, disease. It’s common knowledge that if the public wasn’t interested in stick figure models, the industry would change (Supply and demand).

So, although I wish the industry would change to healthier models, I wish even more that the public would.

Agree with justontime. In Europe now the big fashion houses are starting to refuse to use size zero models, and making models for their catwalk shows undergo medicals to ensure they are healthy before using them… English actresses like Kate Winslet are campaigning against the insistance of directors on them being thin for movie parts, and they are making some headway… nothing makes me shudder more than a glimpse of Keira Knightleys ribs or stick thin arms…

Years ago, I took a women’s studies course that addressed power. We discuss how men are more likely to be allowed more room, meaning they are intitled to more space much like a wealthy person can own more land.

It could be that this is neither a disease nor a fashion statement, but a way to deny power to women, by depicting beauty as someone who isn’t strong enough to defend themselves, or demand their rights.

It may be a greater social problem than many have thought.

We must also examine the predominant designers and what they are expressing about their social attitudes towards women.

It is more than personal disease, and more than a fashion trend.

Opression takes many forms, is internalized in its many forms, with results that might not be classified accurately.