The sites fit into a whole spectrum of extreme body-rights issues - the 'deaf baby' controversy we had a while back, Operation Spanner and consensual mutilation, gay 'conversion parties', right-to-die campaigners, even pro-smoking groups. But the propagandist aspect is the main difference and the main concern.
― Tom, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yay! Good choice. :-)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, I should have been clearer. The toxic aspect isn't the existence of the community per se but the extent to which it encourages members to cut off ties to those outside the community and keep the 'real them' for the community - hiding symptoms etc falls under this umbrella. These kind of toxic communities have always existed but the Internet makes them easier to set up and easier to find, I think.
― N., Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I mean, you had to leave the house as a young punk, but these folks can cease to exist on their own!
― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― katie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chief White Lotus, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― just asking, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
this upsets me because i know too many people who take this too seriously, who read these sites and cry and stop eating. or who read these sites and are excited and exercise more because eating nothing isn't enough. Luckily I've never had serious issues myself but too many people do. Crippling your mind with constant thoughts of "perfecting" your body until it gives out on you...that's so sad. I honestly don't know how much of it is conscious and how much of it is compulsion due to illness but if it's a lifestyle choice it's destructive. And I still don't think it should be censored so I don't know what to say.
― Maria, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mind ur own, Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 23 October 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Jenni, Saturday, 8 November 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
― maryann (maryann), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:23 (twenty years ago) link
― maryann (maryann), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/an-epidemic-basically-a-conflicted-weight-loss-blogger-on-thinspo/275671/
fount of thinspiration macros interviewed about appropriation of her stuff by pro-ana/pro-mia types and otherwise unhealthy people, discussion of prospects for a twitter hashtag ban, etc.
― j., Thursday, 9 May 2013 04:17 (eleven years ago) link