Chic Or Cruel?

Is it weighty commentary or making light of a serious issue?

"I heart Anorexia" artist Alexsandro Palombo is drawing some heavy criticism online for his drawings of celebrities, depicted as skeletons.

Palombo's drawings of famously thin celebrity Victoria Beckham, with her head perched upon a pile of leopard-print bones, as well as designer Rachel Zoe, also drawn as a skeleton, perched on a toilet have some critics crying foul.

"Want to become a perfect Skeleton fashion victim but you don't know how?," he wrote on his blog Humor Chic. "Every day just eat a nice apple for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Make sure it's always a glamorous red one, it gives the idea of substance. Don't drink water, an apple contains enough liquid. Replace it with champagne and lots of coke."

Palombo is clearly poking fun at the whole idea of idealized perfection, but not everyone is laughing.

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I don't thinkin lightening up a serious issue is ever a bad thing, so I like it.

 

I laughed.

 

being a fat person myself, i hate fat people, so i approve of this.

 

Might as well say 'I heart stupidity.'

 

I like it.

 

Nothing real serious to be honest. I think those "critics" need to take a chill pill.

 

I was actually offended by this because a few of my close friends have won battles against anorexia, and anorexia is a disorder that claims more lives than any other mental disorder. And I can't see how people can find loving death funny.

 

where can i order one of these shirts at

 

I agree. Changing it with I love depression - I love skyzophrenia - I love mental sickness would be the same.

 

man i bet you guys hate when comedians and movies and basically any form of entertainment pokes a little fun at a serious issue.

serious issue is serious

 

Come on, a joke is a joke is a joke. Don't make it into anything that it's not.

 

From what I gather, the artist in question designed a provocative t-shirt to engender discussion on an otherwise taboo subject. It's satire, plain and simple.

 

The only people I can conceive of being offended by this are people with a broken sarcasm meter. This is clearly NOT poking fun at the people with anorexia. It's poking fun at the people who champion that ultra skinny ideal and pressure people into becoming anorectics, by media or however else.

imo, those are exactly the people who SHOULD be mocked for the unrealistic ideals they force on people.

Furthermore, I don't get how this is making "light" of the situation at ALL. It's bringing a subject that people ignore into focus and making people aware of it. It's not trivializing anorexia, it's showing everyone that it's there. There's no actual valid criticism of this... everyone mad all seem to be massively missing the point. Or they themselves like to see people anorexic.

 

And Depression should be mocked? Any other mental disorder should be mocked? Any other disease mocked (because anorexia is both a disorder and a disease).

As stupid as it sounds, this idealistic figure girls dream themselves to be, is real and it's a serious issue. Effects from anorexia, if you survive it, can last for years after, the mental and physical scars it leaves behind.

 

Are you even reading what people are posting?

 

Yes I am.

 

So why are you insisting on taking it the wrong way? It's obviously making fun of the attitude some people have towards being ridiculously skinny, not the illness in and of itself or the people who suffer from it.

 

maybe you should email the creator and campaign him to change the word anorexia to something less offensive. like skinny girls or something.

either way, seriously, where can i buy this at