How Many Years of Life Is The Thigh Gap Worth? –The Melancholic and Death

I watched the television show Fleabagrecently (an excellent mix of funny, poignant and wrenching) and was struck by a scene in which a feminist speaker asks her audience, “Would you give up five years of your life to have the perfect body?” The protagonist and her sister raise their hands, but no one else does. We, the television viewing audience, are invited to…