Anorexia
Sir, — I accept that men and women tend to react differently to similar feelings: feelings of lack of control over one’s own life seem often to lead a woman to exert excessive control over herself, a man to try to control other people (though there is increasing evidence of anorexia and anorexia-like conditions in men). My point remains that male attitudes towards women cannot fairly be blamed for all women’s emotional problems, any
more than female attitudes towards men can be blamed for all men’s emotional problems. I also feel it is particularly important to recognise that sexual images of women are not inevitably harmful. Being regarded exclusively as a sex object is an unhealthy state for anyone, male or female; but total denial of one’s sexuality is at least as unhealthy. — Yours, etc., CATHERINE GLUE. November 21, 1984.
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