Sure, you might say the screwed beauty ideals are a symptom. What I was saying is that they are not the cause. And of course the starvation is a problem that has to be dealt with. How is maybe another issue best left to the specialists.
I think you misread that last quote. What they say is that the anorexic persons are not actually striving for some ideal weight that would make them satisfied if they would reach it. So they say precisely that it is not some specific beauty ideal they strive for.
They only wrote it like that because that is what it might look like from the perspective of the anorexic person (if only I could use so much weight, I would be OK).
Anyway, I think we have settled this as far as amateur knowledge permits.
I think you misread that last quote. What they say is that the anorexic persons are not actually striving for some ideal weight that would make them satisfied if they would reach it. So they say precisely that it is not some specific beauty ideal they strive for.
They only wrote it like that because that is what it might look like from the perspective of the anorexic person (if only I could use so much weight, I would be OK).
Anyway, I think we have settled this as far as amateur knowledge permits.