[UA] Anorexia article in Salon

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Matthew Rowan Norwood <matt at intermute.com> wrote:
(snip)
> 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. 
(snip)

Yep, that sounds like an obsessive kook to me. 
Self-destructive, isolated and sure that no one could
understand who hasn't "Been There."

> 
> ...
> 
> 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! 

Why do people always try to for equality the hard way?
 Haven't you noticed it's easier to be equally shitty
to everyone than equally nice?  That's one of the
founding ideals of the US constitution (and it's sad
we can't even hold to THAT one consistently.)

> 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

You're right, very UA.  Very disturbing.  I'll be
using it, but, on a real-world note, it bothers the
hell out of me. 

The only thing I can see going wrong with this
aggressive anorexia philosophy is that it's stupid and
cruel.  No one liked me much when I was thin and
pretty, or my wife either, for that matter. 

Also, a big part of the DISEASE anorexia (or bulemia)
is the tendancy to see oneself as fat, right up until
starvation starts to kick in.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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