To the Editor:
While I appreciate the attempt by Cara Dorris '15 to discuss the media's portrayal of women's bodies ("Heroin chic is back," April 19), I do not appreciate the highly critical tone she takes up when discussing women with smaller figures.
Dorris is forgetting that women's bodies come in many different shapes and sizes and that it is nearly impossible to determine whether someone is "healthy" just by judging their size. Some women are naturally thin and not very curvy, and it's quite insulting for her to suggest that women who are "curveless" or "hipless" are somehow not "real women." To suggest that all women who are thin must be starving themselves in order to emulate Andrej Pejic and other models is inaccurate and offensive.
Anna Boughtwood '15
