you know of who I speak

[threeplusfire]

Most fucked up thing of the day: seeing the lovely Pro-Anorexia community, complete with a jack ass post about how someone wants to be as thin as a House Elf. Gods above, I hope that was just a nicely twisted joke. The whoel thing is rather creepy, a combination of people with genuine sadness, and that moronic brand of folk who write as if they've learned language from AOL chatrooms.

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[calledmara.livejournal.com]

salon.com had a really good article on this whole phenomenon maybe 6 months ago. I'm to lazy to find it, but if you search pro-ana or something similar on the site it should come up. It was balanced and not reactionary/disgusted which it seems might be the norm. Not to say the author agreed with the people in these communities, just tried to understand what they were thinking in their malnourished little heads

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think I remember reading it, and that being part of what set me off around the net trying to figure out this thing.

It's difficult you know, where one one hand I want to take these girls home and beat some sense into them, and on the other hand I wish I could provide some great pithy piece of wisdom that would inspire them to climb out of that mentality.