Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Setting aside the question of kale affordability as barrier (though Toronto's $1 mega-bunches may be throwing me off...), some thoughts...

First off: the eating disorder and disordered eating the author describes are... legitimate things to speak out about. Not fancy-white-lady *problems*, regardless of her own demographics. It counts!

Next: It *is* valuable to also hear about issues like these from people from demographics not heard from as often about them. Not esp valuable: a gesture, from someone without specific knowledge of how those experiences would be different, at how surely those experiences must be

Next: All discussion of individual experience and suffering doesn't need to be ranked! Or, even, can't be. As in, it's not even, on an individual basis, *knowable* where her suffering in a specific area stacks up against that of whole swaths of the population

I would - yes, sorry, repeating myself here - *much* prefer to just hear more varied stories (*including* ones like this one! none of this 'ban the old-type stories' - keep and add!) than this gesturing-at-other-stories compromise

The compromise only serves to dismiss the story told as insignificant (which it's not!) and to offer a well-intentioned-seeming but for all the reader knows, inaccurate hint at what other experiences might be like

It's the hypocrisy of it - either the author thinks her issues are relatively trivial (in which case why should she be taking up real estate in a major newspaper?) Or she thinks they're real, and that privilege stuff is just a pose.