Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first she spoke on issues with which she had had experience. "Many would like to believe," she said, "that eating disorders are merely an expression of female vanity--not being able to get into a size-10 dress and the consequent frustrations. Eating disorders, whether it be anorexia or bulimia, show how individuals can turn the nourishment of the body into a painful attack on themselves, and they have at their core a far deeper problem than mere vanity...
Will readers tire of this fad after thumbing through the 11th book on anorexia and the seventh expose of transsexual aunts? Publishers, for the moment, are betting on a continuing bull market. There are some 267 million stories in the naked U.S., all of them yearning to be told and sold...
This is reminiscent of the controversy over anorexia and models. With anorexia and bulimia spreading, some people are pointing to supermodels and their unusual appearances as the cause. Yet the same media that criticizes the fashion industry for putting too much weight on thinness (pun not intended), went right ahead and described an Olympic ice skater as chunky. What message does this communicate to young girls about their own bodies and the ideal figure they should hope to have? Strive to win an Olympic medal--but your talent doesn't matter unless you're beautiful...
...grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes I don't even know what it is until I throw...
...really want to appeal to women, how about some discussion of the anorexia the baby gymnasts obviously suffer from--or the fact that the females are mostly teenagers while the male gymnasts are in their mid-20s? Resist overcovering women's beach volleyball, which is no better than the swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. And don't labor to make heroes of the nonheroic. Airbrushing swimmer Gary Hall Jr., the spoiled grandson of savings and loan cheat Charles Keating Jr., by not mentioning that he was a major goof-off, blowing up mailboxes and tearing up golf courses...