Re: Pro-Ana Sites
Originally posted by Storm
Pro Anorexia (Pro-Ana) is an on line movement made up of websites, chat rooms and message boards that support anorexia.Unlike websites designed to help remove anorexia tendencies, pro anorexia websites are created to help support anorexia and negative body image. The pro anorexia websites typically contain on line journals, tips and tricks for successful anorexia, pictures of thin women, quotations, and chat rooms or message boards where the women can communicate.
Many of the websites clearly state that they are not about recovery, but regard anorexia as a lifestyle and conscious choice, not an illness or disorder.
Web servers are continuing to remove pro anorexia and pro bulimia sites as they appear.
I was shocked by what I’ ve read and seen on these sites.
These kinds of sites should be shut down. Not only for what they do to impressionable young women, but they hamper valid weight loss for health reasons. I've known more then one anorexic person in my life and what it does to these poor people is unbelievable.
Originally posted by Robtard
If it was a controlled conscious choice, you may have merit; anorexia is a mental disorder, no? These sites glorifying it, only serve to solidify and validate that mental sickness."Many of the websites clearly state that they are not about recovery, but regard anorexia as a lifestyle and conscious choice, not an illness or disorder" -I think that can be considered as a form of "encouragement".
I was referring to suicide, not anorexia, but as said by you and VVD, I honestly don't really care.
Go on, reply saying "Yeah." or something. I still think you lack the ability to not reply to anything.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I was referring to suicide, not anorexia, but as said by you and VVD, I honestly don't really care.Go on, reply saying "Yeah." or something. I still think you lack the ability to not reply to anything.
-AC
LOL... What crawled up your ass and died? I replied to you directly, so there goes your hypothesis. Think anything you like though, if you have a problem with me, then don't debate with me, it was you who first replied to me. I think whenever you feel you're losing your footing in a debate you resort to petty jabs, maybe that's just me though.
Originally posted by Robtard
LOL... What crawled up your ass and died? [b]I replied to you directly, so there goes your hypothesis. Think anything you like though, if you have a problem with me, then don't debate with me, it was you who first replied to me. I think whenever you feel you're losing your footing in a debate you resort to petty jabs, maybe that's just me though. [/B]
I haven't lost footing, you were talking about anorexia, I was talking about suicide as previously mentioned.
And it wasn't intended as a jab, it was just an observation I happened to make, not even in debates with me, with others. Don't take it so serious.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I haven't lost footing, you were talking about anorexia, I was talking about suicide as previously mentioned.And it wasn't intended as a jab, it was just an observation I happened to make, not even in debates with me, with others. Don't take it so serious.
-AC
I don't take anything on a message board personally, that'd be foolish.
BTW, I respond directly when people ask me questions, "avoidance" isn't a tactic I use.