Talk:Pro-ana
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Potential Edit: Some websites always welcome new members into the fold, whether they wish for support in recovery or illness, while others do not accept anorectics who are recovering or wish to recover. These sites often include tips on how to stay anorectic or be a better anorectic, but rare is the site that actually tells healthy people that they too should be anorectic. Pro-ana sites are for the most part geared at current sufferers of the disease
Possibly re-word bolded phrase to "Pro-Ana websites often include tips...." as it makes it more clear that we're not just talking about the sites that don't accept recovering anorectics?
Just wondering, should Wikipedia really be linking to a 'pro-ana' website? Crusadeonilliteracy 09:34, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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NPOV
In its present state, this article is a mess, presenting conflicting viewpoints with no evidence or attribution. It needs a serious NPOV cleanup. -- The Anome 09:06, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
Maybe a rewrite in a noncondemning tone but which also doesn't prance around trying to please everybody. It should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about medicine within the last 200 years; that advocating a behavior that is by (definition) extremely unhealthy is dangerous. Trying to argue that anorexia is 'a healthy lifestyle choice" is like arguing that gravity causes things to fall up.
Jarwulf 08:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
UGH!
Obesity is a disease too, in the U.S. it kills and affects more per year than anorexia. Are you going to start kicking fat people out of McDonalds? Pro-ana websites don't teach people how to be anorexic because it's not something that can be learned. What they do, is provide support for those who are suffering. It's a way to learn to live with this illness. It's really sad how many people are trying to take these sites down all over the internet. I've come across white supremacist sites, porn sites, and sites that bash homosexuality etc., but obviously, the REAL problem exists in sites where people suffering from anorexia talk about their everyday lives and talk to people who know what they're going through...
Right.
All of this is true; the dangerous part comes when instead of encouraging support in recovery, pro-anas encourage support more illness.
Politics
Gawd I hate politics. I am temped to try to rewrite it so I visited articles, anti-ana site, and pro-ana sites. There are three points of views: 1.experts are rightly concerned and know how far to be concerned. 2. The public: most haven't been to a pro-ana site, but are happy to condemn ANY anorexia site not ran by professionals. 3. Pro-ana groups: who feel insulted by the negative media attention and are overly, if not dangerously, determined to keep such sites up. Pro-ana groups typically define pro-ana as some variation of support having a place to talk to others with their condition and with rare hint of suicide if they don't get their way. In light of this, how in the devil do you write a fair neutral article? There is too much taboo effect and right hand not talking to the left hand right now. No matter what you write you will offend a segment of the public.