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One of the turning points for her as she moved her understanding of being Anorexic from personal to societal, was when she had gotten a pass to leave the hospital and go to a mall with her mom. Toward the end of her visit she noticed a Test your Body Fat exhibit at a fitness store. So she tried it. Age: 21 Height: 5'9" Weight: 99 The information was fed into a computer plus the results of some body fat sensor.

The guy read the results "Only 10 percent body fat! Unbelievably healthy. The average for a woman your age is twenty-five percent.

You're this week's blue ribbon winner. She answered him with "I am dying of anorexia, don't congratulate me. She's managed to pull herself away from societies clutches but so many other women are still trapped into thinking that thin is the only way to be. The current best theory on why its considered good for women to be wasting their time wasting away is that it prevents them from being threatening. A weak, half-starved woman is not going to be physically strong, she's not going to be able to think well, though she might have more freedoms she's still under the patriarchies control.

This does seem to me to be one of the important struggles for women in America is to fight off these cruel chains of physical self-hatred. One's body doesn't determine one's worth.

Of course I'm reading this because I too am a woman living in this rather anti-woman society and have picked up this fat is evil meme. Post a new comment Error Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal. Your reply will be screened Your IP address will be recorded. Post a new comment. Preview comment. Post a new comment 2 comments. Those with it need help and support!

I feel anorexia is both a psychological and sociological disorder that is downright debilitating. It is sad that the mindless obsession towards a prescribed set of physical features by a grossly imperfect society would drive a person to take such drastic actions.

This article does well to highlight the ills of this disorder and the huge cost to the health and overall well being of its sufferers. I think emotional comfort, physical comfort and a healthy lifestyle are the things that need to be emphasized in modern society, not freakish obsessions towards subjective physical perfection. This article was really interesting to me because my aunt has anorexia and I never really knew that much about it.

I never thought about how it might affect you socially. In middle school and high school you never learn get taught about issues like this, and I think it is so important for girls to be educated on it.

Schools barely teach you about sex and drugs, but they never even touch on this subject and I think it is a really big challenge for many girls and it would really be helpful if we were taught more about it. Anorexia is one of those things we used to hear about as an after school special, but it never felt real. I think we sometimes forget how much we are affected by images in our daily lives that can pressure us to look a certain way. It reminds me of something I learned about in my psychology class last year, how the women in Fiji — known for being more full-figured, were plagued with the new onset of eating disorders after the introduction of television to the country in It saddens me to think about how our culture harms the self esteem of women worldwide.

A major contributor to anorexia is how the media portrays what a women should look like, we are influenced by our surroundings. This post made me realize the true struggle of women with anorexia. Obviously there is way more to the disease. The ruining of relationships, the body, and mind are just a few obstacles individuals go through.

For a while I stopped eating and went through a depression; although I lost the weight I gained it back quickly the method I chose was unhealthy. I would like to know who helped her get back on track? If so, did they try to get her help? What book did you find this in? As always I appreciate reading what you post here. Thanks Joy. Pretty sad to have an ideal that is the body of a year-old who actually are plenty of the models. Impossible images to strive for do leave us spending endless sums of money to try to fit that ideal.

And who cares if we harm our health, eh? This post was very insightful. I think that it is very important to point out that anorexia is a disease of both the mind and body. Physically and emotionally, the girls are wearing away by punishing themselves because they feel as if they are not good enough.

This punishment can consist of many things, not just binging and purging or starving oneself. I strongly believe that once one starts to binge and purge they become more addicted to the ritual, at the end of a session it is a feeling of accomplishment. Since this gives them a feeling of accomplishment, they feel somehow in their head happy about being able to purge or starve themselves.

So they will push away family and friends. They will abandon hobbies and stop doing things they once loved. I think that today we more than ever need to create a larger sense of awareness about this topic. This is an ongoing problem in young girls and women. This is a really interesting post. I always saw anorexia as a harmful to your health and body, but I never really stopped to look at what other damages anorexia does to a girl. I understand the reason why girls would want to starve themselves to be thin.

However, harming your health, inner-self, and etc. For example, people would normally target a girl mainly on how she looks. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

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Applauding women who sufficiently shrink their bodies, minds and souls is perfectly consistent. And perfectly deranged. Print Email. Like this: Like Loading About BroadBlogs I have a Ph.

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