This is NOT healthy
I just looked at that xanga site… and i cannot even begin to comprehend what i just saw. This girl’s life revolves completely around her weight. I read the first couple of posts, and every single one lists how much her calorie intake is and how much she burned off, and of course how much she weighs. Apparently she wants to get down to 100 lbs before her boyfriend comes back, and right now she’s at 106, so we should “PRAYYYYY for me haha.”
So after I looked at her blog, I started flipping through the different groups or rings that this girl is in, and there are some really scary things. One girl says:
“I want to be thin, I need legs that don’t touch, a tummy that does not stick out, and hip bones so sharp they can cut butter.”
I know I’m stating the obvious, but that is NOT healthy.
Oh and here’s the link to another girl’s blog:
Scroll down past all the pictures to the “Ana alphabet”, which, from what I gathered, is the Anorexia Alphabet.
I didn’t even know that there were essentially communities online where people could trade eating disorder tips and give other people with anorexia, bulemia, etc. support for what they’re doing. This is probably fueling their disorder, not to mention giving them encouragement for hurting themselves.
What do you guys think?
— Devika Bagchi
Comments
To Michelle, Erin, and Devika -
For the past couple of years , we’ve been using a scenario in Computer Literacy (remember those?) that deals with this issue. It’s number 16 on my scenario page (http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/computerlit/scenarios.html). Invariable, students start out by saying that sites like these should be blocked at school. Then we talk about what it means to block websites at school and other alternatives are suggested. Yes, unfortunately it’s a huge problem for some people. Definitely a story worth doing.
Posted by: Frances Jacobson Harris | December 7, 2006 4:51 PM