Sick anorexia websites

The Sun (U.K) ^ | 1/19/06 | SAM WOSTEAR

[Millee]

The pictures are just shocking. What a sad, sick disorder.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, that's the NYT's/Upper West Side's standard for beauty.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

these are sad, pathetic people. They're being cheered on by even sadder, more pathetic people.

[martin_fierro]

OTOH (discuss)

[MamaTexan]

Sad, sad, sad.

To set an unobtainable goal, then die trying to reach it.

[Millee]

Martin - you do have to complicate things, dontcha?? :op

[RockinRight]

Even Kate Moss is too thin for me.

What's wrong with a nice, healthy, curvy girl? I'm not talking Rosie O'Donnell here, just a nice average girl with a figure that looks like a WOMAN and not a FREAK?

These people are nuts. I can't begin to understand the reason, cure, or rationalization of such a disorder. I hope at least some of these girls get the help they need.

[RockinRight]

That's just as nasty, IMHO.

[Millee]

She claims to be a teenage girl and writes: “I don’t know my real father and my step/adoptive father sexually abuses me. My mum knows but chooses to ignore it. She also drinks too much and has issues with her own weight. “I have a younger brother and I love him more than anything in the world. He’s the main reason I’m not dead already. “I began having image problems at eight years old. I started my first diet at eight. I began throwing up at 11, and spent my first day starving at 13. “I’m 17 now and it shows no signs of relenting — but that’s a good thing! I can’t spend the rest of my days fat.

I guess this is the only part of her life that she feels she has any control over. How sad that there are so many POS out there that abuse children like this.

[ToddBush]

Thankfully, I don't have to worry about this. The Girlfriend is delightfully curvy and I love her for it!

[Millee]

I worry about it for my 4-year-old daughter. My MIL (God love her)is one of those "if you eat that you'll become a little piggy" person. Drives me nuts!

[mtbopfuyn]

She's not a child anymore. She's 18. If life is really that bad (this is just from a web site), she can walk out the door and never go back.

[HOTTIEBOY]

I like skinny. Not THAT skinny. But skinny.

Don't get me wrong, a few big-boned individuals have made their way around space mountain. But for show, I gotta go skinny.

[MamaTexan]

How sad that there are so many POS out there that abuse children like this.

No one can convince me that child abuse shouldn't carry a heavy criminal penalty, or that sexual child abuse should result in involuntary, permanent sterilization!

(GRRRR!)

[najida]

I remember when the disorder first came into the medical light (early 80's)....you couldn't be thin enough. Dr's. sent them to us to counsel, and we'd send them right back with notes that read "They know more about food than we do! They need psychiatric help, not nutritional education."

Still, I think it was still being sent girls with 'eating problems' and not other intervention as late as 1990.

Personally, I think it was a combination of the fashion changing the perception of the 'appropriate' female body from one with curves, hips, boobs and maybe even a soft bit of tummy to the super thin waif.... you know, boys with boobs.....

Which just cracks me up when I read ultra hetero conservative males bashing Brokeback Mountain in one thread, or raging against child porn in another.... then posting pics of half starved, silicone enhanced sticks as "Hot Chicks" in the next thread.

Anyhow, toss in Balanchine's baby ballerinas, ripped Olga Korbet (who even by today's standards would be hefty), other activities demanding smaller and smaller body types..... plus starlets getting tinier and tinier and more and more baby'ish of face.

I also remember with the 5-7-9 shop was for 'super small' females.

Now we have a size 0 and well, a bizarre body form that only 8% of the female population can obtain without drastic measures...all the way to surgery.

[najida]

Well,
You're off my Christmas Card list :)

[MamaTexan]

a few big-boned individuals have made their way around space mountain.

ROFLMAO!

I just LOVE the way FReepers can say something....

without really *saying* it!

:)

[HOTTIEBOY]

I will be back on soon...

[najida]

Only when you say "I love women! I love curves!"

Until then, I have a dart board with your name on it >:>

[MamaTexan]

then posting pics of half starved, silicone enhanced sticks as "Hot Chicks" in the next thread.

Great observation. Thanks for pointing it out!

:)