Posts tagged anti thinspo
Fighting Thinspo!
My awesome tagline is YOU'RE AWESOME <3
Social networks become a battleground on body image
The image of the woman in a bikini is anything but sexy. Her pelvic bones jut so far from her lower torso that they look like bent elbows. Her actual elbows are the widest part of her arms. And splashed across her concave stomach are the words “Hunger hurts, but starving works.”
Just another online posting by someone into “thinspo,” short for “thin-spiration,” in which people with anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders (EDs) use the Internet’s broad reach to encourage and network about achieving extreme, unhealthy thinness.
“It’s appealing to people who are in the throes of their sickness,” said Lynn Grefe, president of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). “At that stage, it’s like a competition — ‘I can get skinnier than that picture, I can beat her.’ ”
Thinspo has been an online presence since the dawn of the Internet, but social media are making its effects more pervasive, say treatment and prevention leaders.
NEDA has recently worked with major platforms, including Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest, to adjust their terms-of-use policies to forbid the promotion of “self-harm” by users.
“Pro-anas” (anorexics) and “pro-mias” (bulimics) sometimes combine aspirational visuals — ranging from shockingly skeletal close-ups of rib cages to full-length portraits of thin, beautiful celebrities such as model Kate Moss — with tips on hiding self-starvation from parents and suggestions on the bare minimum you can eat to stay alive. In the twisted world of pro-ana and pro-mia motivation, misery loves company, and the secretive, isolated ED sufferer feels the pull of community. Read more
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- rticle by: KRISTIN TILLOTSON , Star Tribune
- Updated: April 14, 2012 - 9:11 PM
VISUAL TASK: SIT FOR A MINUTE & IMAGINE WITNESSING SOMEONE SPEAKING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL, INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL LIKE THIS:
“YOU ARE FAT, you’re so ugly & disgusting, you are lazy & selfish, you cant do anything right, your such a FAILURE. You are stupid & un-talented. NO ONE loves you. You are unloveable. NO ONE cares about you. YOU. WILL. ALWAYS. BE. ALONE. You are not safe, you are not okay, you are a horrible person. You will NEVER succeed, you will never do anything with your life. Everybody hates you. You are different (and not in a good way!) Look at you, you are hopeless, you don’t deserve support, freedom, happiness. You don’t deserve LIFE. You are worthless, insignificant, a pathetic, useless waste of space. Did I tell you how fat you are? “
Heartbreaking isn’t it? You may feel shocked, sad, angry…I bet your thinking something like “I can’t imagine ever speaking to a little girl like that!”
I know it sounds so cliche’ but you do, you have your own little girl inside of you & you speak to her using these cruel, soul-destroying words everyday. I do it too! This little girl needs us to reach out to her, she is hiding because she’s so afraid of the way we treat her. Lets start reminding ourselves of our own preciousness! Please start protecting that little girl inside YOU like I know you would protect this little girl if you overheard someone saying these horrible, nasty things to her. LETS STAND UP FOR OUR INNER CHILD!!!!!!!! That soft, untouched, undamaged, innocent part of us. She doesn’t deserve the way we speak to her. She doesn’t deserve to be neglected & punished. Lets be gentle & show her that it is safe to come out, that we are here to protect her, that we will never leave her alone again. She deserves to be loved, cared for & nurtured so that she can SHINE, so that she can grow into all that she was born to be!!
(Source: a-recovered-life)
Pro-Recovery: Why I don't support thinspo
I keep getting these questions, so it’s going into its own post.
Thinspo blogs can be triggering, but that’s not what gets to me - part of recovery is learning to avoid or cope with triggers because they will never fully go away. I understand the idea that pictures can be…
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dyke-recovery asked:
@anon-
I originally joined tumblr because i discovered it had a HUGE thinspo/pro ana network and that was how i learned a lot of tips and tricks to getting weighed, purging techniques and how to skip more meals, excuses for skipping meals, etc. You are blind if you think there is no thinspo community here or pro ED community here. I was originally looking for healthy weight loss but fell into thinspo instead and was made outpatient for ED treatment followed by inpatient treatment and as someone with an eating disorder, i can say thinspiration is dangerous and has contributed to the extent of my ED and has made recovering a hell of a lot harder.
Thinspo may not cause an eating disorder but it sure as hell contributes to it.
I originally joined tumblr because i discovered it had a HUGE thinspo/pro ana network and that was how i learned a lot of tips and tricks to getting weighed, purging techniques and how to skip more meals, excuses for skipping meals, etc. You are blind if you think there is no thinspo community here or pro ED community here. I was originally looking for healthy weight loss but fell into thinspo instead and was made outpatient for ED treatment followed by inpatient treatment and as someone with an eating disorder, i can say thinspiration is dangerous and has contributed to the extent of my ED and has made recovering a hell of a lot harder.
Thinspo may not cause an eating disorder but it sure as hell contributes to it.
Thanks for this<3
This is my art project I did , it was a human study . It says “It’s not a Fad , It’s not a Joke , it is a DISEASE .”
It’s obviously addressing anorexia & it’s severity .
Don’t go on criticizing it , my art teacher already did that .
Your art teacher is a fool, this is great work
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The double standard issue, because i’m getting really fed up.
Love Your Body Typography by CMcerniglia on Flickr.
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