It has become incredibly uncool to be on a diet. No one admits to dieting despite the fact that we all do it. This is because “bowing to the patriarchy” is seen as unfeminist and considered a sign that you do not love yourself, which is not only unacceptable, but incredibly lame. We are not like the previous generation of women who were open about dieting and the torture of the boiled-egg diet or the cabbage-soup cleanse. I envy them: they were more honest and didn’t have to work so hard to mask their self-hatred.
