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Originally Posted by Ingrid N.  I'd say about all of them are either teenagers or young adults.
Because anorexia, real anorexia and not this "tee hee I'm gonna be pro-ana this month cause it is so ~fashionable~" is all about control, both over your body and your desires. It's not about being the prettiest princess or having a lot of boyfriends who will, tee hee, buy you cool shit. If it was about looking cool and glamorous, certainly not about half of anorexics would also be cutters... unless Vogue has declared forearm scars to be hip this month.
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Pro-ana turns this thing around and makes anorexia a prerequisite to living a cool, fashionable life and also makes anorexia itself into a glamorous lifestyle. It's a little bit like romanticizing tuberculosis, just updated for our modern age. Instead of making you fragile and pale and and oh so pretty anorexia makes you... fragile and skinny and oh so pretty.
This is why pro-ana is so vexing to me, it present a serious and dangerous sickness, something that will permanently fuck you up even if you don't die from it eventually as a glamorous lifestyle the just takes discipline (oh yeah.) to achieve. |
I agree with you here, Ingrid, but I've also noticed that a fair sized percentage of the "fashionista" crowd seem to be women in the 30's and 40's using
SL as a way to relive their 20's in some Sex in the City fantasy of how those years *should* have been. So I can see a lot of the more mature (in age, anyway) typists whittling down their avatars to reflect the bodies they see in Cosmo and the like. That said, the pro-ana movement online does seem to be largely made of younger women.
This thread makes me want to bump up my av's ass sliders some more.