Although the essays are not in any chronological or specific order, you still feel like you get to know Broder more and more with each passing chapter. The essays are extremely honest and all in the personal-narrative style. The essays range from sexting, to barf, to being diagnosed with depression, to being addicted to the internet, to marriage, to chronic illness, and a whole lot more. In each essay (which are technically their own stories but strung together intentionally to paint a larger arc of her life), she discusses a specific topic or time period and how her mental illness played a role. Synopsis: So Sad Today is a collection of personal essays written by Melissa Broder, detailing her life with anxiety, depression, panic disorder, an eating disorder, and addiction. Side Note: Although I said I do not have a problem with the way anyone eats, that does not mean I am closed off to conversations about eating disorders and disordered eating with people who want to talk about it! I will of course have conversations with people about those things if they explicitly come to me to talk about it, or to tell me they are struggling, or to have a confidant, or if I ask them to talk and they agree. Like, why do you think this is funny or clever and what do you get out of making fun of people and the way they eat? My god. It just honestly makes me so mad and I don’t really know what to say.
Like why are you posting this? It isn’t funny.
I do have a problem with this person who can’t leave other people alone.
I don’t have a problem with the way anyone eats and try every day not to “evaluate” the way anyone eats despite my eating disorder behaviors telling me I should. Food should not be judged or measured by anything other than whether or not it personally makes you feel fulfilled and happy.īut second of all, and more importantly, why does this random person who posted this terrible meme feel the need to judge people who are trying to diet or eat “clean.” Our society forces dieting– dieting solely to lose weight– down our throats and wrongly assigns moral superiority to thinness, so I do not judge anyone who is dieting for any reason. It is wrong to deem foods as clean or dirty, or try to assign any moral value to food (a practice which is actually rooted in colonialism and white supremacy, but that discussion deserves its own post). I see these posts all over Instagram, and usually I just ignore them, because I hate them, but I’ve arrived at the end of my goddamn line with these.įirst of all, I think the idea of “clean” eating is extremely harmful. Content Warning: This post discusses “clean” eating and shows a picture of specific foods deemed “unclean.”įor today, all I want to discuss is this:
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