Posted on 02/15/2005 10:03:28 AM PST by gopwinsin04
Seemingly inconspicious braclets that are growing popular with teens are actually a secret signal for people with eating disorders and other destructive behaviours, reports WDIV in Detroit.
They look like any bracelet you might buy at the mall. Red bracelets represent anxeoria, puple is for bulimia, black and blue are for self injury such as 'cutting' and mutilation.
The bracelets sell for $15 on a web site called bluedragonfly.org, and they don't discourage eating disorders. They actually encourage the behaviour of people who want to keep starving themselves.
Bluedragonfly.org lists the first names and hometowns of girls who have ordered the secret bracelets. Visitors post messages encouraging each other's weight loss and even offer tips on how to purge more quietly.
The web site features pictures of emaciated women. They call it 'Thinspiration' and are pictures designed to 'inspire' girls to lose more weight.
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What is the big deal with weight, I have the body of a god, Budda.
Colored bracelets are all the rage nowadays in the wake of the Nike yellow band for Lance Armstrong's cancer fund. There are olive drab ones for supporting our troops, blue ones for tsunami relief, pink ones for breast cancer research, etc.
Just because one whacked out website might be selling them with this in mind doesn't mean that everyone with a colored bracelet has an eating disorder.
Old story.
I swear that within the past three months there were posts decrying the secret sexual meanings of colored bracelets. Black meant oral, blue meant touching, etc etc.
I thought these coloured bracelets were "sex tickets" for young men who manage to snag and break one off a girl's wrist? </sarc>
>>Just because one whacked out website might be selling them with this in mind doesn't mean that everyone with a colored bracelet has an eating disorder<
Maybe not, but if teen girls are intentionally buying these bracelets for the reason given, then there's a problem.
Nice publicity for the site making money selling these bracelets.
Eating disorders are a serious problem, but these bracelets are a marketing scam by whoever runs this web site. The station was taken in.
What is the big deal with weight, I have the body of a god, Budda.
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Not many know this but....Jabba the Hut and Michael Moore share the same eating disorder...
What color bracelet do I need for "Eating the whole G-d D@mn bag of Doritos Again"?
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
I think youre remembering the 'sex braclets' story in NYC, this one is Michigan..
I heard from an insider that when a kid wears a blue one it means that he likes the color blue, red ones for red, and so on. </sarcasm>
Michael looks more like "Pizza the Hut"
So my red wrist band supporting our troops (and mocking the I'm so blue wrist band) could make people think I have an eating disorder? LOL...
LOL, good one!
I ve even seen some colored bracelets for sports teams fundraising (charity or scholarships usually)
Hi,
This is not an urban legend. Girls do wear these bracelets (they are usually beaded) to remind themselves not to eat. I've seen it. It's not pretty.
Rach
You can keep your six pack abs, I have a keg.
I hear fat chicks are buying these, looking for a gullible boyfriend.
Im not going to say anything here that someone might jump on me later for being insensitive..
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