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coming from someone who struggled with anorexia, bulimia, food related OCD & BED since puberty: YES. and i’ll elaborate on why you *really shouldn’t* cw/tw the mere mention of food, cooking or eating: + https://twitter.com/acfaery/status/1326919718859517952
twitter has an amazing mute function. it’s on content preference settings & you can mute words/subjects that you’re not interested in. things that might trigger you, annoying subjects that would be trending rn... so tweets containing those words won’t show up on the TL.
so when you cw/tw something you’re making sure that even if you wouldn’t mention that specific word in your tweet, ppl who’d find that subject upsetting can’t read your tweet because they either have the word muted OR they’d see it first thing and just scroll right past it.
doing that is extremely considerate and i appreciate so much everyone that picked up on this internet etiquette habit, specially since i personally have many things that i find disturbing muted to make my page a safe space for me 
so i’d like to acknowledge that first
so i’d like to acknowledge that first
however, i feel like most people aren’t familiar with the dark side of the internet that are “ana/mia” pages. since the beginning of blogging, people with eating disorders have created their own echo chambers throughout all possible platforms, including twitter
i don’t want anyone that’s struggling mentally right now to come across this and find it appealing, because it’s not. it’s honestly the most disturbing, disgusting, suicidal, dangerous dark place to be on — specially on your teenage years. like i can’t stress how bad this is.
the whole purpose of these pages is to encourage and enable each other’s eating disorders. and it goes deep. like people die from this shit. it ruins families. it’s depressing beyond belief.
my point is: when you tw/cw the mention of food, eating, cooking, anything like that you’re not only acknowledging that food = bad, but you’re, in a way, enabling someone’s eating disorder. you’re making the internet “a safe place” from something that it shouldn’t be safe from.
of course that things like that are not black and white and i’m not trying to dictate rules. i’m sure there must be exceptions to the rule but i need people to understand where cw/twing food comes from and who it’s catering to.
eating is good. eating is necessary to be alive. food is a blessing. cooking is an act of love. we’re humans. we need water and food to stay alive and healthy, to live a long happy life. it’s a fundamental part of human life. you wouldn’t tw sleeping/mention of a glass of water.
the normalization of the connotation that food = bad, food = triggering, food = upsetting is super dangerous and i’m sure most people just want to be polite, but when you do it you’re contributing to a whole system designed to validate a mental illness.
just in case it wasn’t clear i’m not talking about ppl in recovery/facing mental struggles that tw a tweet discussing that. im talking about tweets like “”cw food today me and my sister are going to a pumpkin patch & baking pumpkin pie later”” or whatever
