Will you PLEASE make up your mind? First the ultra-skinny model is a threat to female health because she trumpets the idea that a rounded female form is somehow ugly. But now it's disgusting and insulting to suggest that maybe those walking skeletons should EAT SOMETHING?

Will you Broadsheet creatures please MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MINDS? It does not help the cause of feminism for you to constantly backtrack and contradict yourselves, changing dance steps every three minutes. You do not come off as reasoned social critics, but rather as a bunch of bitchy socialites who just want to argue with anybody and everybody, so long as you can find some way to hook a "feminist" slant on your nitpicking.

Have some dignity, why don't you? Choose a stance and STICK TO IT.

They wanted publicity. They got publicity. Mission Accomplished.

But it does seem like a perfect opportunity for all those actresses and models who claim they're just naturally slim to put their mouth where their money is.

This is a marketing ploy. They've gotten themselves in the news, and they're likely to get beautiful women into the restaurant. win-win. There's no deep sociology here, just a crass marketing manoeuvre.

Anorexia is a disease. I don't really understand your post, as it seems that if you're going to be offended on the basis of starving people in Africa, overweight people are more offensive than too-thin people are. And if the previous sentence offends you - how dare I disparage someone's body type? - then maybe you'll see why I have a problem with your post.

Anorexia isn't healthy. But unfortunately, the fashion industry has encouraged - nay, demanded - that women starve themselves in order to become "clotheshangers" on a runway. If you look at the photos from fashion week, you'll see bones sticking out everywhere - and these are the models who were hired. These are the women who are successful. Those with a little meat on their bones don't get jobs. It's an industry that pushes women into mental illness - both the women and girls on the runways and the ones reading the magazines.

This is not, however, the fault of the models. They are doing what they have to do to get hired. It's the fault of the industry.

Disparaging women because they are thin is just as bad as disparaging them because they are not thin.

With so much of the world's population starving to death in places such as Africa and India - it just really is hard to have sympathy for these uber-slim models - as the author suggests - even if they "suffer" from anorexia. It is luxury problem, a luxury disease. Perhaps these skinny-minnies could donate some of their considerable wages to charities/organizations dedicated to eradicating malnutrion/hunger/starvation and death. It is just hard to feel sorry for someone who PURPOSELY does this to their body and gets paid a handsome sum to do it. Just one more sympton of what is wrong in this unbalanced world...

It's just a marketing ploy based on a joke. Get over it already.

Hey, can I get in on this? I'm a petite size 0 (it's a normal weight for my height), and I'd love some free foodie!

isn't this basically just another version of Ladies Night? offer something free to women to get them in the door, which is the key to getting men in the door?

if nothing else, it's free publicity associating them with models.

If the place were to deem another girl overweight, they could either yank food off her plate or just refuse to serve her. Why not? It's just as insulting and judgmental!

Making a public spectacle of someone because their figure doesn't appeal to you or you deem their eating habits unhealthy should work both ways if that's the way we're headed. Unbelievable.