It started with medieval “fasting girls.” Now, divine devotion and the occult mingle in eating disorder communities online.
for why she might need to pursue skinniness as her life’s ultimate meaning in the first place.
“Personally, at my most psychotic and eating disordered, I fasted and restricted for some Divine showing of devotion, exactly like fasting girls did,” someone wrote on an eating disorder support forum earlier this year. An early user of the internet, Ortiz found that the online forums devoted to disordered eating took on a specific valence. “I followed a lot of pro-ana [pro-anorexia] blogs, and many of them used quasi-religious vocabulary and imagery,” she says, referencing the repurposing of religious mantras and creeds into thinspirational texts, moonlight rituals, and pro-ana psalms and prayers.
The religiosity of Costin’s text was deeply influential on the early pro-ana community’s mode of discourse, as members soon began referring to their online community as “the Ana Religion.” Costin tells Jezebel she had her attorney send a cease and desist when she first discovered her commandments were being co-opted by pro-ana sites. “But then they kept appearing on more and more websites. It was impossible to stop it,” she says. Censorship, she found, was futile.
The deity, named Anamadim, was the indirect result of a therapeutic method developed by doctors in the 1980s, digital anthropologist Dr. Beth Singler argued in her 2011“Skeletons into Goddesses.” Known as Foucauldian Narrative Therapy, this technique enforced the idea that anorexia was something that happened outside of the patient; an external force that operated more like a parasite or vengeful friend than anything that came from the patient’s own will.
México Últimas Noticias, México Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
Stolen Girls: The untold story of the Leesburg Stockade GirlsIn July 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, teenager Shirley Reese joined a peaceful protest here in Americus, Georgia, with other young Black girls.
Leer más »
Watch: Boaters get incredible front-row seat to humpback whale feeding frenzy'Discovery Channel, eat your heart out,' the captain joked as the boat riders watched in awe.
Leer más »
A DC Neighborhood Guide to Bloomingdale and EckingtonWhere to shop, hang out, eat, and drink
Leer más »