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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thekrcachannel.com ...
I have a bracelet that commemorates a friend of mine who was killed in Iraq. It reminds me that some have given all they could to keep us free and safe. I miss Brandon, but he's also a true hero.
Have you ever seen the "Michael Moore Is FAT!!!" T-shirts that Glenn Beck was selling? They're hilarious.
Gotcha both beat: I have two chins! :P
Kids these days..
"This is insanity, who is profiting from these people's compulsions?"
A capitalist who has found a market niche and is supplying a demand. Nothing more, nothing less.
Kind of on the same level as sex trade brokers in Thailand.
I've been to it. Just try typing "pro ana" into google and see what you find. Seriously disturbing.
No argument from me on either point.
Its kind of sad this still goes on in this day and age..
Who knows? I cant keep up..
Is that kind of like the Build-a -bergers?
That's an eating disorder bracelet if ever I saw one.
Anorexia and bulimia are big problems with teenage girls.
However, I don't understand the whole thing about self-mutilation.
I'm in Michigan, this is old news on the west coast.
Found on a pro-ana website.....
The Thin Commandments:
1.If you aren't thin you aren't attractive.
2.Being thin is more important than being healthy.
3.You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.
4.Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
5.Thou shall not eat fattening food without punishing oneself afterwards.
6.Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.
7.What the scale says is the most important thing.
8.Losing weight is good/gaining weight is bad.
9.You can never be too thin.
10.Being thin and not eating are signs of true will power and success.
Unbeliveable..
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