Size 2 clothes – such a tiny thing to be angry about

Ipity, but don’t really understand, the women who seem to get so cross at the idea of women much thinner than them. I grew up reading glossy magazines and peering enviously at the pictures of the super-slim models. But as I hoped to go on and have a successful career in writing, not modelling, Kate Moss’s appearance simply had little to do with my inner life.

But now that everyone is so prone

Most women won’t even be able to pull a size 2 over their knees. But so what?

to low self-esteem (and to banging on about it), and now that we all see the world through a prism of possible discrimination, everything has become fair game for offence.

A case in point was the row last week over online fashion retailer Asos’s stocking of size 2 clothes. Of its many thousands of products, Asos also offers 600 in a size 2 – vestments with a waist size of 22in, that of a healthy six-year-old girl. Clearly, size 2 is a very small size that most women won’t even be able to pull over their knees. But so what? I mean, I do feel for the girl who wrote on a website about eating disorders that news of the size had sent her into a “state”. Her world has clearly and tragically been narrowed to the pinprick of waistline sizes. Bs But for an MP to then call the s stocking of such small sizes “dangerous”: come on!

Can we just get on with our lives, please? I’m a size 14-16, the UK female average, and when I go into a shop, the only thing that sends me into a “state” is if nothing i in my size is stocked. I don’t have the time or inclination to care about anything else.