Restricting Pro-ana Blogs - 1284 Words

Eating disorders are psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habit (Nilsson 1).They are self-destructing disorders that either cause excessive eating or limitations on eating, seeing as the disorder is not one that is most pleasant, one would find it hard to imagine that there is a whole online community that promotes the disorder to millions of others with little to no restrictions. This community is known as ‘pro-ana’ or ‘pro-anorexia’. For years ‘pro-ana’ blogs have floated around the inter webs without rules and regulations. Many youths go to websites such as Tumblr and they spend hours looking at images of skinny models and anorexic ‘Tumblr girls’. In this way they themselves begin to lower their own†¦show more content†¦Women on the blogs deliberately gather to empower each other to resist recovery, which is why it is important that these blogs are to be monitored closely and on occasion terminated, to prevent others from harming themselves as a result of the blogs contents. In Courtney Martin’s book, perfect girls, starving daughters, she states that â€Å"we are not so directly affected or so hopelessly naà ¯ve,† as to blindly follow the examples of models and actresses that we see starving themselves every day (126). She is saying that we are not as naà ¯ve as the ‘anti-ana’ organizations make us appear to be, that we do in fact have a mind of our own and will not start starving ourselves because we view a few website promoting it. We are influenced by what is around us even if we do not realize it but at the same time we are making our own decision to follow it even with prior knowledge on what will happen if we do so (127). This is proven by â€Å"Researchers who have carefully studied the data conclude that there has been no significant change in the rate of anorexia in America since at least the mid-20th century.† (Schwarz 2). In other words, even with technology increasing the rate of anorexia has had little change,Show MoreRelatedImpact of Social Media on Physical Appearance Essay2388 Words   |  10 Pageswave, social media websites have caused this sudden uproar for thinness. Websites like Tumblr, We Heart It, and Pinterest show girls what the media portrays as the perfect body. Tumblr is a website ran by teens itself, it is a site where teens make blogs about what they like, how they feel, and what their opinion on life revolves around. There have been pop-ups on the website of girls too skinny to comprehend with the (#) hash tag thigh gap. A thigh gap is where there is space between your thighs,Read MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pagesyour behavior. Discrepancies between attitudes and behavior tend to occur when social pressures to behave in certain ways hold exceptional power, as in most organizations. This may explain why an employee who holds strong anti-union attitudes at tends pro-union organizing meetings, or why tobacco executives, who are not smokers themselves and who tend to believe the research linking smoking and cancer, don’t actively discourage others from smoking. Finally, the attitude–behavior relationship is likely