Diseases, it turns out, are not discriminatory

John Prescott, GB's former deputy PM, has admitted to suffering from an eating disorder. I'm so thankful that, as a a high profile male, Prescott is willing to put his face on disordered eating and potentially augment the dangerous and totally ungrounded assumption that only women have eating disorders (and, more specifically, only women have eating disorders, and only to be thinner. In actuality, 10% of people with EDs are men, and the oft repeated mantra is true: eating disorders aren't about food. Period. End of story). So why do I, the epitome of the stereotypical eating disorder demographic, give a fuck? Because I think that if people recognize that eating disorders are not gender/age/race specific, that legitimizes them more, and maybe can help society on a greater level finally get that these are not diets or bad habits or lifestyles but serious debilitating fatal psychological diseases.
Whew, that said, I agree with Feministing's response to the BBC article:

While Prescott is brave, The BBC article is actually pretty stupid. Even after establishing that his disease stemmed from his inability to manage stress, it ends with a focus on his weight. For the last frickin' time people, eating disorders are psychological, not physical diseases. If an inability to manage his emotions caused the disease, why not report on how he learned to do that, not his 15 stones?