So I was thinking about the question proposed in class about how culture and media influence our body image and it made me think about this one clip from a new Disney show where they kind of, I wouldn't say prop up, but acknowledge eating disorders. The girl in the clip who says the line is apparently this really successful, skinny, and beautiful in the show whom two other girls look up to. In my mind, I feel like by her saying the line, it only endorses eating disorders and encourages others to act the same way so they can be just like her. I could be reading way too much into the clip, but I just remember there being this huge backlash from Demi Lovato on Twitter. She had recently recovered from her own eating disorder issues and couldn't believe that Disney would use that kind of joke in their programming. Maybe Disney didn't mean the line to come across in that way, and the girl didn't necessarily imply that she had an eating disorder so younger viewers aren't likely to pick up on the subtext but it is a possibility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGr3xVcSr8&feature=related
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