@Just Wayne
yeah..

@Draco Dei
Anorexia is very much a modern condition. We dont really have records if it existed in the olden days but we do know it has been far far worsened by societies fetishzation of being as skinny as possible and demonization of being fat

@ALostCarolean
First off: A good point to bring up. The fact that I am going to spend the rest of this post questioning the conclusion should be taken as a compliment. A search for Truth requires questioning a lot of things (some would say ‘everything’) and the words of a fool are rarely worth investigating. Thus investigation indicates I hold your statement NOT to be a foolish one.

Disclaimer out of the way:

Oddly enough, it I WONDER if it actually causes an increase in the problems? Some mental illnesses etc. are oddly-culture specific, and so I wonder if there is a bit of real world “memetic hazard”… (meaning just knowing about something can place one at risk).

Even if that can occur with psychological problems in general I would imagine that it would not actually be a significant factor in anorexia nervosa. Plenty of idolization of hyper-skinny (and airbrushing of even supermodel photos from what I hear) to possibly account for the existence of the phenomenon all on its own.

I know basically zilch about the hypothesis I proposed above, but it does seem like something that would be worth checking into if one was going to be active on such issues. Professional journals articles of psychology have probably be written on the subject, and while reading them directly might not be necessary, that level of intense study, by MULTIPLE people, with INDEPENDANT CONFIRMATION from separate pools of raw data should be a step in the chain of information.

These are the sorts of “so obvious it has to be true” assumptions that can utterly wreck societies…
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I would think that the message in the show might tend to be more about “if your parents are abusing you, tell a police officer” (Hitch and/or Zipp in this case) or just a trusted friend (who should then tell the authorities IRL)? That seems a bit of a PR risk for Hasbro to introduce than anorexia.

@Just Wayne
Kid friendly entertainment. But for real I would say it’s good to inform kids of these disorders and how to help/prevent them from an early age.

So we are going from Anorexia to actively starving which might actually be canon.

@ktbcat
Or Opaline just doesn’t bother to feed her. Which, as horrible as it sounds, might actually be canon…

@Background Pony #3654
Actually, I was gonna say, based on the somewhat visible ribs on her chest, that she was developing the same anorexia that Sunny went through.

my bet here is that after seeing what happened with Sunny, Misty is also gain a new eating disorder, just the opposite of what Sunny had. but that’s just a stretch on my end