The sheer idea that someone would find it "funny" is offensive to me. It may have been written on a satirical website, but it is something that is really going on in our society. There are little 80 lb 16 yr old girls that feel they will just die if they hit 100 lbs (talked to one today, in fact). Could it be that they grow up in homes where their mother's are obsessing about their own bodies...poor body image is a learned behavior. There is a multi-billion dollar diet industry out there that encourages women to look like Calista Flockhart and Lora Flynn Boyl who are absolutely not realistic roll models in any form or fashion. We, as stupid Americans, have fallen for this idea hook line and sinker...but if you stop and think about it...does the weight loss industry *really* want us to loose weight?? Hell no, then where would they get their billions??? But we keep trying, keep feeding the industry. More Americans are on a diet now than ever before in the past, yet we are fatter than ever before...um, duh, it is because dieting makes you fat.

So why is this particular thing offensive? Because it's really, right now, today happening...women want to be as thin as possible to fit it...this fictional women was excited about looking sick...that IS reality, it's not a joke. And the fact that someone would even take the time to joke about this phenomenon is repulsive.

I love the Onion, I read it often...hence how I found the article. It's fun to joke about politics, Martha Stewart, or the latest scientific research. Joking about something that is real but most people don't realize is real is not.

Unfortunately it's not an issue that most are passionate about or even understand, but as a fat girl who has recovered from an eating disorder, I do and am and absolutely don't appreciate a poke being made at something this serious.