Mad Men's Joan: a good role model for women?

Lynne Featherstone, the equalities minister, says women should adopt Christina Henrickson, of Mad Men, as a "role model". The advice has been fulsomely rejected, with many women suggesting that life without any body-image role model is an even more noble undertaking than life with a large-breasted, large-hipped, tiny-waisted one. But Anne Milton, a health minister, says something even more weird: "If I look in the mirror and think I am obese, I think I am less worried than if I think I am fat." My dear, if you look in the mirror and think you are either fat or obese, you have body dysmorphic disorder, and really ought to be consulting a psychiatrist rather than lecturing doctors on how they talk to their patients.