There’s this whole weird subworld out there of girls crying out for love and help. And then it just gets sicker.
There are entire websites/blogs devoted to vomiting with minimal esophogeal damage, making a piece of lettuce last all day. Really sad shit like that. Many of these girls like to troll different websites looking for God knows what. Love? Understanding? Who knows.
By the way, I read something interesting a few years ago. It was along the lines of how magazine covers and models were NOT as much an influence on young girls as many mothers liked to think. The article (no, it wasn’t in a fashion magazine) asked mothers to ask themselves how their daugthers saw them from their mothers own actions.
It seems daughters are seeing the mothers that they think are beautiful (as all young girls do) saying things like “I need to diet” and “I"m so fat” etc… , and they see them constantly dieting (or pretending to) and that is where they are getting the idea that if their ultimate role models aren’t satified with themselves, then they shouldn’t be either (from example). It sends confusing signals to young girls when their mothers cut themselves down with negative comments on their own appearance and their constant struggle to maintain youth and beauty, yet tell their girls that it’s what’s inside that counts. And then they try to blame their daughter’s eating disorders and self esteem issues on Lindsey Lohan or someone who doesn’t have daily contact with the young girl. Anyway, it opened my eyes.
There was a HUGE thread on thinspiration on the old site. Please don’t start one here.
A large number of us have never seen the “old site”, whatever that is. I’m really not sure. I feel like there is a clique here to which I will never belong because people keep posting things like “this was discussed a long time ago”. I’m assuming that this forum like anything else cycles, and you have turnover and topics are going to be rediscussed because 75% or so of the users did not take part in the original discussion. I have only been here a short time but I have seen so many new names and I honestly believe that it is OK to discuss things that the orignal core 25% may be sick of. Perhaps they could overlook our newness and allow us to try and have a dialogue and they could just choose to ignore the thread.
If I must do a search each time I have a thought to see if the thought in question was discussed a year ago then I believe I have correctly used the term “clique” and most of us don’t even belong here and are not welcome.
Sorry, but if I want to start a tread on thinspiration ( I don’t), and most of the posters ( regardless of how long they have been members) don’t have a problem with that, I don’t see why someone would want to tell me I can’t, just because they have been here longer than I have and have seen the topic discussed before.
Because there wasn’t any need for registering to post, we got some very questionable posters and many threads got very argumentative. Usually, if something does get posted here that has been in the old forum, one of the moderators will note this and post a link to the relevant topic in the old forum.
hmm, I don’t think that this girl is a real girl with body issues, but I know how the (real or not) girl felt. I also think that it is a big problem, and, although I’m sure you’ll all shout that I’m misleading small kiddies etc, but starvation actually does work, or it worked for me anyway.
Okay, this comment is not on topic, but I just have to post it:
Jodie Foster is the most beautiful and alluring woman I have ever seen (she is in the movie ‘Inside Man’ that I give five stars to)
but the picture on Mark n Jen’s postings is stunningly beautiful!
Is that Mark, or is it Jen?
Who knows, and who cares?
Dan the not-really-a-lech-but-still-a-passive-admirer-of-great-beauty
Sorry, but if I want to start a tread on thinspiration ( I don’t), and most of the posters ( regardless of how long they have been members) don’t have a problem with that, I don’t see why someone would want to tell me I can’t, just because they have been here longer than I have and have seen the topic discussed before.
Bebe, I apologise if that sounded blunter than I intended it.
I wasn’t saying you shouldn’t (or couldn’t) start a thread on that, it was that the last thread started with ‘are these sites real’ and descended into a lot of problems. It was meant more as a warning that this sort of thing has happened in the past. This is no reflection on how long people have been members.
Also, in terms of the topic we are using as an example, it isn’t a hoax, so if someone opened the topic in this section, it would be moved.
Anyway, sorry again for not explaining myself properly in the first place.
Okay, this comment is not on topic, but I just have to post it:
Jodie Foster is the most beautiful and alluring woman I have ever seen (she is in the movie ‘Inside Man’ that I give five stars to)
but the picture on Mark n Jen’s postings is stunningly beautiful!
Is that Mark, or is it Jen?
Who knows, and who cares?
Dan the not-really-a-lech-but-still-a-passive-admirer-of-great-beauty
Okay, this comment is not on topic, but I just have to post it:
Jodie Foster is the most beautiful and alluring woman I have ever seen (she is in the movie ‘Inside Man’ that I give five stars to)
but the picture on Mark n Jen’s postings is stunningly beautiful!
Is that Mark, or is it Jen?
Who knows, and who cares?
Dan the not-really-a-lech-but-still-a-passive-admirer-of-great-beauty
