I came across a thought-provoking and moving blog regarding body images, appetites, desire, and how we gender these attributes differently:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/01/27/the-weight-of-words/
Particularly compelling was the author's paragraph on the [not so] hidden judgment of how to and who gets to eat:
"Words about eating and weight are loaded with judgment, violence and danger for females in our culture. “She eats like a bird” translates as praise for the daintiness and restraint of a woman who fails to sufficiently nourish her hungry body. “Stick thin” literally describes an inhuman image, but is spoken by most women with intensely human envy. A “gluttonous” woman must be slovenly, unkempt, weak, stupid and profoundly unfeminine. A gluttonous man, however, might be jolly as Old King Cole or as powerful as a Roman emperor..."
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