It reads like a woman with ADD. A hodgepodge of thoughts that really don't say anything.
For instance:
Not when we walk around the house sucking in our stomachs in front of the mirrors. Not when we obsessively regulate the contents of our refrigerators in the name of “purity.” (Did you know that there’s a clinical word for the “fixation on righteous eating”? It’s called “orthorexia.”) Our girls see right through all our righteousness.
Okay, woman are not supposed to be concerned with their looks or their health.
And then:
And they hear the hypocrisy, too, when we dish out all kinds of pabulum about a “positive body image,” then go on to trash our own thighs.
So, which is it? Are girls supposed to see their mothers walking around not taking care of themselves or are mothers really supposed to portray a healthy person?