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Why Is It Only Women Are Forced To Be Mediocre To Not Offend Other Women?
Have you ever noticed that it’s disproportionately women, whether ordinary citizens or famous “influencers,” who are under constant scrutiny for supposedly promoting disordered relationships with food and exercise, no matter what they do?
By Jaimee Marshall8 min read
Meanwhile, genuinely orthorexic bodybuilders who perform extreme diets, take steroids, and give advice that would have dieticians and eating disorder recovery girlies shrieking are glaringly absent from this discourse. This leads me to wonder why the burden of representation is always placed on women. The frequency of social shaming of any female public figure’s eating and fitness habits is out of proportion to how problematic those habits genuinely are.