• death camp chic

    ELLE Reveals Men Actually Think Anorexia Is Sexy

    You know that whole thing about how being superskinny is an ideal originated by the fashion industry and perpetuated by female competitiveness and like, totally NOT AT ALL what men are interested in etc. etc.? Well that's bullshit, says a story in the March Elle by Amanda Fortini, a 5'6 woman who dropped to 100 pounds a few years back. "Many men, I quickly learned, really do like frighteningly lean women, whatever they may claim to the controversy. As an average, medium-size young woman, I was unremarkable, innocuous. As a skinny slip of a thing, I was something of a sensation. In restaurants and at parties, men flirted at me extravagantly." Men in media and literary circles hit on her frequently and audaciously, (one of them with the awesome line, "You remind me of a heroine from a Joan Didion novel." (You know, "all bones and big eyes.") "As a male friend once put it to me, semifacetiously," she writes, 'A little anorexia is hot.'" But would they have thought it was hot if they knew what was swimming inside her guts?? More »

    12:30 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
    By Moe
    23,678 views, 267 comments

    Latest by Butterscotching: "Also, you know, lots of women have various preferences in dude body shapes. Some like beefcake, some like 'em skinny. more »

  • anorex-positive

    Teen Vogue Message Boards: "I Gained Alot Of Weight Over The Summer. Its Disgusting."

    It has long saddened me that I was never granted entrance to VIP threads of RingsWorld, the New York Times of pro-ana message boards, but you know what they say: "information wants to be free," and no one ever said "except for the 'thinspiring' tales and laxative how-tos of a demented subculture of teenage girls who are actually warped enough to try and attain the standards of beauty perpetuated by magazines like Teen Vogue." And would you believe it? It seems message boards on the website of Teen Vogue are well on their way to displacing RingsWorld's as the leading online community of the anorex-positive! Like on Monday, user vaVA_Vume posted:

    lets get skinny!

    Posted: Nov 13, 2007 9:23 PM

    today i hade lemon zinger tea with one packet splenda 0 cal and water and took my meds...then during the day i just kept taking sips of hot tea to fil me up.... so far ive had o calories total!!! whooohooo...

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    3:00 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
    By Moe
    18,845 views, 133 comments

    Latest by mamavision: The result of this can be seen in the 17Million pages of "pro anorexia" content on the web. For kicks, go more »

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