Monday, May 16, 2011

Pro-ana

Pro-ana websites scare me.
Like they scare the living crap out of me.
Just reading these things put me in a darker place.
If you are not familiar with pro-ana it is quite simply;


Pro-ana refers to the promotion of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. It is often referred to simply as "ana" and is sometimes affectionately personified by anorexics as a girl named Ana. 
 Thats what scares me. Affectionetly personified?? It is a DISEASE. There is nothing affectionate about it! What pisses me off about this is these are lazy girls!! They do not have the disease! In actuality ladies, only 5-15% of americans have anorexia nervosa. And you think you fit that? Fat-headed much? They just want to lose weight doing nothing! How dare you want sympathy for being lazy? For wanting something for nothing? When there are girls all over the world working there asses off manually? I see pictures of supermodels on these pages, but do they ever stop to think of what a supermodel does to get that body? And to mantain it? Its hard work! Its restriciton everday but not calorie restriction! Restriction from the stupid foods that these girls binge on! Eat liters and liters of! 
On the pro-ana websites I have found things like tips on how to make yourself vomit, read a girls dark thought on how to get thin,and how she is not thin enough, and the whole thing to me is like reading a dead girls diary. NO-one should go there, its creepy. There are some people that say that pro-ana sites are for recovering anorexics, to have support, and come together so as to not feel completely alone. But when I see sites giving tips on where to vomit, and to listen to techno music rather than hard rock because the base makes it harder to hear you wretch, I must disagree.
Yesterday, on the dark blog in question, I saw a man comment, and give these girls a reality check.
Stating that very few of the girls on that site have anorexia nervosa and they need to stop being drama queens cause if they suffer from any disease its a swollen head. BRAVO.
Normally I wouldn't say bravo but if you had seen the comments they had said back it would've made it a bravo to you too.
Things like "You just don't understand" "trust a man to rule out a woman's feelings" the whole blah blah blah. Hes right. There are people who are actually sick. Who really do suffer from anorexia rather than try to starve themselves so that mommy and daddy will pay for nip&tuck, or because they are misunderstood.
Not all these Pro-ana sites are awful, but as long as there is a site, there will be people coming to these sites thinking they are anorexic and putting a big red drama-queen stamp on the poor girls who actually do suffer the disease. I know what i will here, "who r you to say who actually has anorexia?" Well I can tell you this right now, an actual anorexic, would not affectionately coin there disease "Ana".

No comments:

Post a Comment