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A Message to All You Fat Girls!

Snoink · 2008-11-25T07:24:20Z

I was browsing MySpace the other day, and I saw this as I was updating: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7416/anorexiamuchan1.png I'm talking about the ad, of course. And that sort of stuff just KILLS me because the picture is totally unrealistic. If you were that thin, you would be starving yourself. By starving, I mean that your hair would be falling out, your brain wouldn't be able to think correctly on simple things, and every moment of your day, you are thinking about food constantly, since your body craves it since, if you were that thin, you would have to starve yourself. Also, your skin wouldn't look so sleek... it would have ribs jaunted out and you would look very skeletal. What they did for this ad was they completely photoshopped it so that the colors would look right. In real life, this would not be the case. And I hate how they shove that crap at your face. When I first saw the ad, I felt bad because of its message and I, being just as susceptible to the media as any one of you, wondered whether I was one of the fat girls... and it's just ridiculous. And I'm supposed to be a reasonably mature adult! I'd hate to know what would have happened if I were most of your girls' ages. That would be tough. The point is, the media and the advertisers shove this crap in front of our faces everyday in an effort to make demoralize us and to make us feel like we are unworthy or fat or ugly or whatever so they can sell us something, and you know what? This is wrong. This is horribly wrong. And I'm sorry that you have to put up with it and I'm sorry I have to put up with it, but I guess that's the way it goes. But remember... if you ever look at those ads and think, "Oh my God, am I really beautiful?" then I just want you to remember that you're not alone. For these advertisers, it is their business to make you feel horrible, because they want you to buy the latest thing and make you feel desperate enough to buy their products. And I just want you to know that, no matter what crap you come across and no matter what self-hating thoughts come into your minds, you girls are some of the loveliest people I've met. So just hold your chin up and keep smiling. You'll get through this, promise.

andimlovegalore

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Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:32 am

andimlovegalore says... · Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:32 am

It's actually surprising how many people on here have or have had eating disorders. I wonder if you added it up how many there are... I heard it was about 1-5 % of girls had anorexia and bulimia, but that doesn't account for the scales of eating disorders and the undiagnosed ones.

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