Starvation Isn't Self Care

Starvation Isn’t Self Care

By Virginia Sole-Smith | From Instagram | 0 comment | 3 May, 2019 | 0

Billionaire Jack Dorsey shared his best “wellness tips” with a podcast and started the whole Internet talking about how he eats only one meal a day and fasts every weekend. Because when teenage girls do it before prom, it’s an eating disorder… but when (very rich) Thin White Guys do it, it’s… still a f*cking eating disorder.

Starvation isn’t a lifestyle choice. It isn’t a wellness plan. It’s not self care. It’s desperately sad and dangerous. And we have to recognize that, no matter who is evangelizing to us, even if they’re a source we equate with gravitas or intelligence. “Man” is not code for nutrition expert. Men create and perpetuate diet culture. And men get eating disorders, too.

I’m not gonna link to any of the articles about Jack because we shouldn’t be glamorizing this nonsense. But oh hey, here’s my Bitch Media piece on how Thin White Guys invented wellness/diet culture.

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Virginia Sole-Smith

Virginia Sole-Smith writes about diet culture, anti-fat bias, feminism and health. —AUTHOR of FAT TALK and THE EATING INSTINCT— “Lucky for all of us with bodies, Virginia Sole-Smith is a visionary. She generously guides grown-ups toward unlearning everything we’ve been taught about weight and worth and teaches us to show young people that they are always enough just as they are.” —Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother

Starvation Isn’t Self Care