Comments on: Show me the love. http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/ Body Image, Eating Disorders, Proanorexia Culture Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Niika http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1029 Niika Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:58:51 +0000 http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1029 Just because these sites are all on LiveJournal does not mean they all equate with each other! Even the idea is absurd! Is YOUR blog exactly the same as all other blogs on Wordpress? No? I thought not! Similarly, not all LiveJournal communities are exactly the same as all other LiveJournal communities! Also, just because the moderator happened to also be a member of purgatorium, or whatever, does NOT mean that even MOST of the other proanorexia members were involved with anything to do with the purgatorium community. Similarly, if you were involved in commenting and posting on another blog, that does not mean that everyone else who reads your blog will also be commenting and posting on that other blog. The idea is just silly, and wrong. Just because these sites are all on LiveJournal does not mean they all equate with each other! Even the idea is absurd! Is YOUR blog exactly the same as all other blogs on WordPress? No? I thought not! Similarly, not all LiveJournal communities are exactly the same as all other LiveJournal communities!

Also, just because the moderator happened to also be a member of purgatorium, or whatever, does NOT mean that even MOST of the other proanorexia members were involved with anything to do with the purgatorium community. Similarly, if you were involved in commenting and posting on another blog, that does not mean that everyone else who reads your blog will also be commenting and posting on that other blog. The idea is just silly, and wrong.

]]> By: Miko http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1028 Miko Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:24:23 +0000 http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1028 I just wanted to say that you might think that you're doing the world a favour by enlightening uneducated people about anorexia and bulimia, but it's not your battle to fight, nor your struggle. I've been anorexic since I was 11, I'm now 19, and all I can say is that no matter how many horror stories I heard about anorexia, they didn't affect me at all until i experienced them myself. As far as I have learned from the pro-ana movement, they do not encourage unhealthy behavior, at least not the most popular and biggest sites. They offer advice, healthy advice, and yes - sometimes kids come in and want to lose 20 lbs before prom - but they are ALWAYS encouraged to leave or do it in a healthy way. They don't want young people like myself, and younger to experience or being sucked into the same hell that most of them are. I just wanted to say that you might think that you’re doing the world a favour by enlightening uneducated people about anorexia and bulimia, but it’s not your battle to fight, nor your struggle. I’ve been anorexic since I was 11, I’m now 19, and all I can say is that no matter how many horror stories I heard about anorexia, they didn’t affect me at all until i experienced them myself. As far as I have learned from the pro-ana movement, they do not encourage unhealthy behavior, at least not the most popular and biggest sites. They offer advice, healthy advice, and yes – sometimes kids come in and want to lose 20 lbs before prom – but they are ALWAYS encouraged to leave or do it in a healthy way.

They don’t want young people like myself, and younger to experience or being sucked into the same hell that most of them are.

]]> By: mamavision http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1015 mamavision Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:30:32 +0000 http://mamavision.com/2007/02/22/show-me-the-love/#comment-1015 Hello Anonymous: First, if you had any balls you would post your name. Second, calm down so we can have a civilized conversation. What I know and have experienced personally can be found in this blog if you care to take the time to read about my background. The proana images are live on public web sites. I am not a member of any proana sites, I simply view the public information, and the images are posted for all to see. I supposed I could link to them, but I don't believe that would have the same impact. I believe you are defensive because you don't want anyone messing with your underground community, privacy, secrecy, and anonimity is what is all about. I am all about Free Speech so you don't have to worry about me working to shut you down. You will have to worry about me grabbing screen shots and images from public websites in order to educate parents and families about proanorexia.....maybe this is a reason for you to take a look inside and figure out if you are headed down the right path. Take care, -mamaVISION Hello Anonymous: First, if you had any balls you would post your name. Second, calm down so we can have a civilized conversation.

What I know and have experienced personally can be found in this blog if you care to take the time to read about my background.

The proana images are live on public web sites. I am not a member of any proana sites, I simply view the public information, and the images are posted for all to see. I supposed I could link to them, but I don’t believe that would have the same impact.

I believe you are defensive because you don’t want anyone messing with your underground community, privacy, secrecy, and anonimity is what is all about. I am all about Free Speech so you don’t have to worry about me working to shut you down. You will have to worry about me grabbing screen shots and images from public websites in order to educate parents and families about proanorexia…..maybe this is a reason for you to take a look inside and figure out if you are headed down the right path.

Take care,
-mamaVISION

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