I hate that
we're all so ashamed of eating. I say "we" in
reference to our entire society, because our culture seems to
teach that somehow, eating is weak. I hate that we all feel the
need to make an excuse for having a doughnut, or a slice of
cake. "Whatever, I'm going to the
gym"/"I've ate well today, I can afford to
cheat"/"I have a fast metabolism, I won't gain
anything anyway". What about, "Fuck you, I want
a doughnut", for once? I write this as someone with a
deeply entrenched eating disorder. I know what it's like to
be constantly dieting. We live in a culture where hunger is
strength and cupcakes are weakness, where eating a chocolate
bar is totally normal and overly endearing if you're thin,
but repulsive, disgusting, "out of control" behavior
if you're fat. I hate that. I hate that food has become
something that we should be having less and less of, because
thinness is promoted as being far more important than our own
physical and mental well-being. Even "clean-eating",
the idea that some foods shouldn't be "allowed"
because they're "unhealthy". We all have eating
disorders, really. Some of us; ie myself; just take it further
than others. We live in a world where we are all terminally
starving. Why?