OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You must look at this.
As I was reading up on eating disorders I came across PRO-ANA and PRO-MIA websites and journals. When googling for eating disorder articles I read a press release detailing Oprah's coverage of this recent online phenomena that encourages and supports the development of eating disorders.
These terms refer to the so-called crusade or movement which is taking place in order to allow women who suffer from these illnesses to develop a support system for their disorder and talk about their problems.
This disgusting surprise prompted me to search live journal for the starvation support groups. If your at all like me, you were completely in the dark about the existence of these sites until now. There are hundreds of sites and journals with daily updated posts and obsessive fasting behaviors. Livejournal and xanga have literally hundreds of these forums. Young women display pictures of disgustingly thin models and actresses and write genuinely about their beauty. THIN is associated with BEAUTIFUL in the mind's of these young women. Could this be a revelation to the evils of the internet and blogger's freedoms to influence and encourage these behaviors? Obviously so.
PLEASE READ THESE . . . its a slap in the face to anyone who feels our society does not have an unhealthy obsession with weight.
http://www.pro-ana-nation.com/v1/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2
http://community.livejournal.com/__10dayfast__/
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=pro-ana (there are a ton of journals here)
http://forum.ringsworld.com/members-journal.html
posted by SophieRose @ 6:41 PM
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3 Comments:
I STILL find this so interesting. I have heard of the pro-anorexia web sites and I actually have friends that visit them "for fun." Have you read anything about the psychological aspects to people with eating disorders--how can someone stop eating? is my question--something must be wrong mentally. Love the blog very interesting.
Anni
I can't even begin to undestand how they can go so long without eating. The least they can do is send food to africa. If they don't want to eat it, someone over there sure does.
I did not know they had those sites. I am curious to go read their pages.
Olivia
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