I know it's not just academics, but there in again is why it's not just an education issue. Teenage girls don't have a lot of life experience and they develop these eating disorders when they are young and have a hard time getting rid of them when they are older, no matter how much more life experience they gain. These images are drilled into women's heads from a young age and it's very difficult to get rid of them.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco