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Topic: Should "pro-ana" Web sites be banned?
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adlib
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 2890
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posted 19 September 2002 12:08 AM
I agree with lagatta and SamL.The sites are disturbing. Not because they show pictures of women who are thin, but because they glorify not eating. Big and beutiful sites don't glorify being unhealthy. I don't think they can be stopped, though. I always find it upsetting that the misconception continues that big people are necessarily eating "more", or less healthy food than smaller, or even skinny people. There are millions of people out there making terrible food choices, but unless they happen to have a particularly slow metabolism, no one would think to judge them, except to maybe say that they're "jealous". Until that kind of absurdity stops, young women will keep killing themselves to be "beautiful".
From: Turtle Island ;) | Registered: Jul 2002
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rosebuds
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 2399
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posted 19 September 2002 05:51 PM
The cover page of "anorexic by choice" - a site for "those with eating disorders who do not choose to go into recovery at this time" says: quote:
You are solely responsible for the
decisions you make. This site, it's owners, and affiliates bear no liability for the choices you made/make nor for any harm that came to you as a result thereof.This site does not encourage that you
develop an eating disorder. This is a site
for those who ALREADY have an eating
disorder and do not wish to go into
recovery. Some material in here may
be triggering. If you do not already have an eating
disorder, better it is that you do not develop one now. You may wish to leave.
They know their web site makes sick people get sicker, and healthy people get sick. They lamely try to "waive" themselves of any responsability for that. Disgusting. But not disgusting enough, as far as I'm concerned, to be censored... [ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: rosebuds ]
From: Meanwhile, on the other side of the world... | Registered: Mar 2002
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janew
webmistress
Babbler # 199
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posted 23 September 2002 08:53 AM
Thanks for the link to Futurebirds posts. Too bad she's not on your board anymore. I found this statement really interesting... quote:
It's the fine line between attacking the person and attacking the idea.
I can relate, as a smoker. You get tired of people feeling free to criticize you for the things you don't do well and not seeing that it may be one of the reasons that you can do other things well...crutch though it definitely is. I would bet that most of the pro-ana people would rather be happy with their body no matter what it was like - just like the rest of us would, but the choice about how to deal with that discomfort is a different one. So how do we criticize the fact that society makes people feel that they're not acceptable if their body isn't some arbitrarily defined 'just right'...but not criticize individuals for the way they deal with that? [ September 23, 2002: Message edited by: janew ]
From: Toronto, Ontario | Registered: Apr 2001
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