Friday, October 24, 2008
Don't Die For a Diet
I was checking out YouTube for some examples of extreme diets and such, when I stumbled upon this scary, scary video. It starts out with a little girl, cutting out pictures of models from magazines. It goes on to give advice on how to stay thin, and tells viewers that one can never get too thin. These dangerous pieces of advice are apparently from actual pro-anorexia websites. The video ends with the instructions to NOT take this advice, and to follow the healthy advice of dontdieforadiet.com. I found this video to be quite disturbing, but I thought I would post it just to get some opinions on it. So, what do you think? Would this video help girls, or hurt them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYt9bYu194
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I like this video because it starts out by showing a little girl cutting pictures out of a magazine. Anorexia, bulimia, and obesity can begin at a very early age. The media targets children, telling them what they are expected to look like, and these innocent children worship the bodies of the women in the magazines and vow to grow up to resemble them. As a teenager the girl works out until she passes out, punches her stomach when she's hungry, and even vomits to try to avoid gaining weight. It's so horrible that individuals take such drastic measures to be thin. This is a horrible disease, and I think this video really has the potential to open individual's eyes to how serious of a disease it truly is.
yeah i agree. I think this is a good video. It opens peoples eyes to what anorexia and bulimia can do to a person. Actually watching it made me kind of sick looking at how skinny that girl was and how you could see her ribs. Eating healthy is one thing but making your body suffer is different and this video portrays this well.
I also liked how it started out showing a girl at a young age and I think that it did a good job of showing what actually happens. But I think that the only people watching it are the one's who don't and would never do that to their bodies. On the side bar were more video's that were pro ana, so I watched a couple of them. Those videos are the ones that are encouraging it and that the girls get the ideas from. Something more needs to be done than youtube videos.
I feel like this video wisely targeted pro-ana users by making it seems as though it was pro-ana too--and then introducing an alternative.
Still, I worry that these images and descriptions of behaviors, like those on other anorexia websites that did NOT promote the disease, could still be used as motivation for people who are looking for advice and support.
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