Some girls want out

[JohnCurtice]

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n05/hilary-mantel/some-girls-want-out

I suspect many people on here will have read this review before-strikes me as very relevant to ROGD in girls

That's a spectacularly powerful piece of writing. Thanks for sharing it.

I think that essay gets right to the heart of what's going on with ROGD. I've been linking to it for years. My mother and her mother were from the 'go into convents' generations, in my day and the decades after it was 'starve yourself'. And cutting, always cutting. Some girls do indeed want out.

Hilary Mantel was an amazing writer and sadly missed. This is an excellent essay. It really shows the issue so plainly.

I keep seeing references to anorexia like this as if it were something in the past. Why? It certainly hasn't gone away. IME it's strongly associated with gender dysphoria and autism. IIUC the connection between autism and anorexia is well established.

No suggestion that it was only there in the past, but when I was a teenager although none of us became nuns or could have imagined adopting a gender, not eating was known to be a way for disturbed young girls to deny or destroy their female bodies.

Some of the admiring comments about Dylan Mulvaney from young women indicated that his extreme thinness was seen as a thing to admire and aspire to.