Thank you very much for the question. I think that's a very good question.
I think that one of the reasons that eating disorders are so disproportionately experienced by girls and women is because of the objectification of women, where women are positioned as the object of the collective gaze and the public gaze in our society. This kind of positioning happens at a really young age as girls learn to take up their femininity. Being seen as the object of other people's looks is a primary criteria for femininity for women in this society. I think that objectification does play a role. But I also think we have to see these disorders as complicated, multidimensional problems where the social and the cultural play a really foundational role. There are other factors operating that relate to one's biology interacting and intersecting with psyche and the broader society.
Yes, go ahead.