Okay, now that I'm a day removed from it, now maybe I can share the newest reason why I hate Mark Morford. For telling anorexic girls they're ugly. Among other things. Dude.
It's more than just the usual bizarre admixture of magazine ads and media spectacle and celebrity whoredom that makes them want, at all costs, to appear completely bedraggled and curveless and perpetually expressionless and completely unsexy and looking like meth-addicted mannequins with bleached teeth and flat-ironed eyelashes and stapled stomachs and dry, brittle spines and totally cute shoes.
posted by katiemoo at 10:54 AM
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I don't know. I have mixed feelings. Would you rather he go on and on about how beautiful someone like Flockhart is? Isn't it better to try to teach anorexics that that look is *not* attractive?
OTOH, putting any focus on the body of an anorexic may not be the best way to go. I just think, however, that if you're going to err (if in fact it's an error), better to err on the side of "ooohhh! Gross!! Skeleton!!!" than either "ooooh! Gross!! Fattie!!!" or "oooh!!! Yum! Look at that svelt figure!!!"
N'est-ce pas?
Okay, Hank, now you've gotten me started.
Well, wait. Did you even read the whole column? Of course not. You've got more important things to be doing.
I have a lot of issues with what he wrote, but the bit about him calling them ugly was just the simplest and most humorous to blog about. He goes on and on about how anorexia is all about body image and fitting in, which is a terribly simplistic way of looking at it. Then he has to qualify the hypothesis that it might be about control by saying that that's what his woman friends tell him. You know, those crazy women who are all concerned about being thin and wearing cute shoes. Obviously Mr. Morford is a greater authority on the emotional workings of the human female.
So if it is, indeed, mostly about body issue, then why hammer the point so enthusiastically that anorexic girls are ugly and "completely unsexy"? Isn't he further propogating a societal notion of how women should look? They should have curves and look happy, and they should eat, but not too much or else they'll be fat and unhealthy and again unsexy.
This also pissed me off: "girls often cut themselves even if they have no real, deep-seated psychological issues or traumas, no real reason to do so other than, well, because it's the thing to do. It's popular. It gets attention." Again, he obviously has so much insight into the minds of these girls.
He also mocks the WB, a network I happen to be quite fond of, but he's not as guilty of that as Tim Goodman, who I also dislike.
So yeah. You got me started.
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Well, wait. Did you even read the whole column? Of course not. You've got more important things to be doing.
You got me. I didn't read the whole article. I count on you to provide me executive summaries in these instances, because, as you say, I'm much too busy with other important things. ;-) I'd never have the nerve to think to speak for women/girls on these types of issues, which is another reason I find any male that's so anti-choice a bit suspect. But I digress.
Just remember who my daughter is.
Right. Even I, being an actual woman, have a hard time speaking about anorexia, lest I sound like a dork going 'Well, I have friends with eating disorders...'
And so anyway, is your daughter not stunningly beautiful and would you ever dare tell her otherwise?
And so anyway, is your daughter not stunningly beautiful and would you ever dare tell her otherwise?
I've been known to say she's way too skinny and that I'm worried about her. She doesn't like that, but I can't help it sometimes.
Sure, but do you agree that the emphasis Morford puts on "you're too skinn" is a bit much?
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