Emma comments on a post from over a year ago: The pro-Anorexia movement. Her comments and request are unlikely to be noticed on that old post, so I’ll repeat them here:
I am currently collecting information for a website project for university. I am writing about the ‘slim for Him’ programme in the states. Is there anyone who would be willing to share their personal experiences with me? I am looking at the pressures young women are put under by religion (particulary Christianity) and society (through the media).
I would also like to comment on the above posts. Having anorexia nervosa is a direct result of the pressures of the environment around you, whether it is from people or living up to media representations of what ‘beauty’ is considered to be. It is only one dimension of the multitude of practices which include tatooing, piercing, branding, cutting, binding, bodybuilding and gymnastics in which the outer body is transformed, inscribed and altered. Anorexia and fasting is just a slower waty to achieve similar means. It is much more dangerous.
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