I am sure most, if not all of you have read or heard about this article written by an author under the name of "Tuthmosis". His article "5 Reasons To Date A Girl With An Eating Disorder" posted on the returnofkings website has created quite the buzz as you can imagine. This article gives 5 reason why a man should date a women with an eating disorder... disgusting right? Here is a link to the article: http://www.returnofkings.com/21313/5-reasons-to-date-a-girl-with-an-eating-disorder
Since we have discussed eating disorders in class I figured this article would create some good discussion. His 5 reasons go as followed: 1.Her obsession over her body will improve her overall looks 2.She costs less money 3.She's fragile and vulnerable 4.Probably has money of her own 5.She's better in bed
As a women reading this article I was outraged. Although I have never suffered from an eating disorder I can not imagine how women who have took to this article. It is also disturbing that a man can take something that is so awful to a women, and turn it around to show how beneficial it is for a man. This article is encouraging women to have eating disorders, so men like them better. This article is glorifying eating disorders and basically saying "It's better if you have an eating disorder."
In my personal opinion, none of these reasons even make the slightest bit of sense. What makes this article even worse is that the author feels no remorse for what he has written. In fact he made a joke on Twitter in response to the outrage: "All these angry, hater girls don''t see the irony in talking about 'throwing up' over an article about girls with eating disorders."
Another puzzling questions is why the publisher of the website allowed this article to be published. I would like to know how everyone else reacted to this article.
After I read the same article I was also very upset by what I saw. I can’t believe that someone would post such an article online. I believe that this article does also encourage women to do detrimental things to their bodies. However, people do have freedom of speech and have different viewpoints on life and they way they live it. I’m not trying to defend the writer because I too believe that it is a ridiculous article, and shouldn’t have been posted. However, if there is anything good that came from the article, it’s that viewpoints like these are the reason why there is such a thing as great organizations like NOW (national organization for Women) and many other feminist groups.
ReplyDeleteI am appalled that someone would actually research and come up with such an article, and I’d hope that nobody would actually search for a girlfriend based on the principles listed in the article. Also, I feel that the “buzz” created by the article could actually help some feminist organizations due to the ridiculousness of the article. This article could be the one that sparks someone’s interest in the Woman’s and Gender Studies field, and inspires them to do great things for feminist organizations. Plus this article is only the viewpoint of one man, which caused many replies by people who seemed to have opposing views from the author. So I think this article didn’t really accomplish its goal, and if anything resulted in the favoring/agreement with feminist groups in reader’s minds. So I hope that, in the end, this article benefitted feminist groups more than the people who create pointless articles like these.