From an Eating Disorder’s Half-life to Your Full Life
What happens to people with anorexia or bulimia who don’t get treatment–or who don’t get enough of the right treatment? This is an important question because, according to the National ...Read More
Hatred Does Not Equal Health
February 8, 2012 by Kimberly Dark · 22 Comments
“I stand for a life free of shame for all little girls.” “I stand for happy, healthy children–no matter their size.” “I stand against social stigma and the right to be happy just ...Read More
H&M Whittles Down Acceptable Body Types To Exactly One
December 6, 2011 by Ned Resnikoff · 28 Comments
I hope that years from now we’ll look back and laugh at the time when female clothing models were all expected to conform to a very narrow and specific range of body types. If so, we’ve ...Read More
A Vulva Looks Like THAT? Demystifying Female Genitalia for Teens
November 29, 2011 by Rachel Walden · 8 Comments
A few weeks ago, New York Times Magazine carried an amazing article–Teaching Good Sex—that uses a Philadelphia private school’s approach to sex ed to illustrate a simple but controversial question: ...Read More
Japan’s Yaeba Trend and Cosmetic Infantilization
November 12, 2011 by Lisa Wade · 8 Comments
Benjamin B. alerted us to a New York Times story about a new trend in Japan: yaeba. Some young Japanese women are now having dentists artificially enlarge their incisors so as to achieve a look ...Read More
#NoShaveNovember Raises Hairy Gender Questions
November 2, 2011 by Deborah Aronin · 38 Comments
When Ms. magazine asked me what I thought about #NoShaveNovember, I had never even heard of such a thing, and I couldn’t quite grasp its point. Maybe this is because I participate in something ...Read More
Hot Chicks, Cold Sexists and Occupy Wall Street
October 20, 2011 by Leah Berkenwald · 16 Comments
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, students of magic battle a boggart, a creature that manifests itself as your worst nightmare. With a flick of their wand and the word “Riddikulus,” ...Read More
Wasp Waists and Anorexia
September 26, 2011 by Valeria Marchetti · 22 Comments
The cover of Vogue Italy’s September issue–timed to appear during the Sept. 21-28 Italian fashion week–featured Stella Tennant, the striking 40-year-old super model and mother of ...Read More
Culture-Jamming Sexist Ads
July 8, 2011 by Lisa Wade · 4 Comments
From Sociological Images: Reader Tara C. sent in a great excuse to revive an old post featuring public resistance to marketing that sexually objectifies women. As I wrote back then, this resistance ...Read More
The Wisdom of Recovery From Eating Disorders
April 21, 2011 by Aimee Liu · 3 Comments
In recent years, science has established that eating disorders are biologically based mental illnesses. We know that DNA determines who’s likely to develop an eating disorder and who’s not. And ...Read More
