wandering stars

There’s a kind of growing awareness in some communities that food policing is a problem and it’s not appropriate, where people are conscious of the fact that maybe they shouldn’t talk about what people are eating. Unfortunately, this sometimes diverts into a stealth form of healthism, where people talk about what they eat, which is in its own way a form of commentary on what other people are eating. It’s hard to pin these people down and explain why what they are doing is harmful, because if you play back their sentences to them (in the metaphorical sense, please do not go ’round recording people), it’s often hard to specifically highlight what the problem is.