[UA] Anorexia article in Salon

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

This article showed me the closest real-world analog to the OU I've ever
seen: people who embrace their anorexia. It fits almost perfectly with
Epideromancy.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/07/23/pro_ana/index.html

You need a Salon Premium membership to read the whole thing, but the
sites it refers to are real. Check out:

http://www.geocities.com/anorexic2001/me.html
http://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?&user=paper
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thethinneristhewinner

Some quotes:

Ironically, it is not unlike the 12-step phenomenon, only the goal is
illness
instead of freedom from illness. As 15-year-old Jai puts it on her home
page,
"There are some people I've seen that call people sick and stuff for
being
pro ana, but I just ignore them because they don't understand anorexia
the
way people in the pro anorexia web rings do. I guess they won't
understand
until they experience what we experience. People who live around me
don't
know anything about my anorexia." 

...

Ladies, if you are in your teen years and want a boyfriend you
better never get fat. Because everyone knows that hot guys only
go for the skinny girls with big boobs. I hate it when guys say
that size doesn't matter, that is the biggest fucking lie in the whole
universe!!!!! If size doesn't matter then why are none of the fat
girls popular in high school? 

That is why we anorexics have to give off the right image, we
have to be skinny and make all of the popular guys like us, but
then turn them down or expose them as the mean people they are
by saying something like, "how come you never liked me when i
was fat?" We also have to not be like the rest of the fucked up
world, we have to see people for what they are inside and act
nice to everyone, regardless of their size! I am totally Pro
anorexic, but i am just saying that we all, all of the pro anorexics
out there, have to band together and raise to a higher level above
this fucked up society.

-Matt Norwood

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