Yeah, that was awful. The author is basically using the character's anorexia to mark her as evil/immoral.

Can we please stop framing anorexia as this voluntary pastime for the 'bitchy popular girl?' Anorexia is a horrible illness that affects many women. It is not uncommon for victims of rape/sexual abuse to suffer from such eating disorders as a product of their trauma. My two best friends are a testament to that. The…

Ha ! Called it 2 minutes after you. So you're not alone. Very uncool way to put it.

I haven't finished this - I think I stopped at the dolce bag (btw, this is why people criticize : Girls, white feminists website - Immigrant girls do not relate to dolce bags unless they're oil tycoons' daugthers) - but I really don't see why it's shared here, especially since we're supposed to be sensitive to people…

Thank you for this. I hope it's a big success for everyone involved.

Wocka wocka sigh

David Mitchell!!!!!!!!!

OH GOD OH GOD I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.

References to "gypsy curses" is always a sound indication of quality science journalism.

Eating disorders aren't really my area, but: Word.

Yeah, not trying to say anything about oppression. Just that we shouldn't be shaming anyone.

I didn't know that existed... and now i MUST HAVE IT.

Anytime I see something like this I pray it's performance art.

If I were in charge, I'd watch him carefully. My radar just goes *off* re: guys like this.

"On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were gunned down at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. The shooter, Marc Lepine, walked into a classroom at the school, separated the men from the women and then opened fire while making anti-women…

So you're young enough to be living at home, you've tried out a million different religions, you converted to Islam a month and a half ago because your friends were doing it, and you're demanding your mother take you seriously?

This is like when Glenn Beck used to be all "Is Obama a secret Muslim sleeper agent hell bent on destroying democracy and establishing a totalitarian communist hellscape? I'm just asking the question! Why do people get so mad when you ask questions?!"

Girl, don't even remind me.

The radical idea that women are people!