I've been thinking about how society defines "anorexia" and "anorexic". I don't mean the medical journals. I don't know anything about medical. I mean pop culture. The tabloids with thei "Best and Worst Beach Bodies" and the gossip sites with their rabid forums "omg she is like toooo skinny" and the women's mags "Walk off the Pounds" articles while there's a pic of a cake on the cover. Mags aimed at moms are particularly cruel that way.
And mags aimed at presumed-single and no kids crowd have the drop-weight-fast cleanses etc.

Hi. My name is Honor, and I live in America. And the US of A is fucking bipolar about women and our bodies.

In Fashion women are dressing all sexy and on TV and in movies women are sexy and have sex yet in the real world. The health care systems won't pay for abortions and most insurance refuses to pay for birth control unless the doctor says its needed for a reason other than just as birth control.

Women who run cooking shows tend to be thin. Men who run cooking shows don't have the same pressure to be thin.
The double standards drive me crazy.
Males get to joke about PMS but it's "tasteless" for a woman to joke about "erectile dysfunction"
When Hilary Clinton was running people said PMS or menopause might affect her performance.. wtf?? But being too old to get the penis up doesn't make a male less qualified?

We women are always being judged based on our bodies. And when a woman tried to take control of her own body she is punished. A woman who doesn't want sex is "frigid" or has some "arousal disorder". Yet a woman who goes out seeking sex is a "slut" "whore" etc.
A woman who is fat is called "lazy" yet a woman who is thin is called "anorexic".

And yet what does every diet book say?
Measure your food. Count your calories. Exercise and keep track of how much you burn.
These are the things that anas do and do well. So dieters are told to do the same calorie watching that anas do. The same exercise calorieburn tracking that anas do. Just don't turn ana.
But every diet out there teaches how to be ana.
And the "doctors" wonder why anas "relapse".
It is our culture... created by all humans with emphasis on male desires... that is to blame.
American culture is based on appealing to the beasts within. Women are consumed.