Lesley Kinzel (via curvesahead)

I will always reblog this because it is so so important. 

(via infinitetransit)

I just want to nail this to every stable surface I can find. I cannot count the amount of times that I’ve seen fat folks being encouraged, cajoled, and even forced into behaviors that would be recognized as disordered eating/exercising patterns in thin folks. 

Pretty much everything that’s done on shows like The Biggest Loser would be called out as pro-ana/pro-orthorexia in a thin person. Exercising past the point that it hurts, to the point where you’re throwing up, even injuring yourself? Berating yourself because you didn’t lose ENOUGH weight this week? Constantly talking about how fat is weakness and thinness will make everything better, about how you can’t stand to be your current weight anymore? Emphasis on weight as a sign of how much control, strength, and worth you have? Viewing food as bad, as a temptation to sin? Constant sharing and talking about tips on how to minimize food intake, how to lose weight? 

That sounds exactly like every pro-ana/pro-mia blog I’ve ever seen. It’s also what fat people are told we need to be doing to ourselves until we’re thin. 

(via madamethursday)

There is so much truth in this.

(via nineplanets)

I watched TBL the other day on Netflix, just to see if it’s gotten any better, or if they’re teaching healthy anything at all now. It’s still horrifying. Also, the above is all true.

(via always-raging)

Quote and commentary. This is another reason why I don’t feel comfortable censoring pro-ana content: the people who are involved are very distressed and usually very sick (and don’t fucking anybody dare say ‘no they’re not, because they’re not really anorexic’), and they’re only repeating everything they hear from every direction anyway. The only difference is that pro-ana sites admit that what they believe is disordered and say ‘but fuck it, we’re doing it anyway’, whereas magazines and television say ‘no, no, of course this isn’t abnormal, it’s all perfectly healthy!’ (I’m not saying I support pro-ana sites, but I definitely think it’s hypocritical to censor them.)

(Source: xojane.com)