Anorexia?!

Image by Keiko Morigi, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Thanks to this great image by Keiko Morigi i heard about something hard to believe if someone was telling it to me.

It seems there is, at least, one group in the SL-Flickr universe, dedicated to promote extreme slimness. Of course i won’t mention the name of the group, or the administrator of it, mainly because i don’t want to help to promote all this.

Of course i believe in the freedom of each and everyone to make one’s avatar the way one wants, i believe in freedom of speech and expression, of ideas. Even after seeing some of the pics of some of the people posting in that group i can say they look like lollypops for me i respect their personal decision (i can respect and have an opinion about it at the same time).

But will all that respect included i think promote, iconise and glorify a sickness as dangerous, lethal and problematic as Anorexia is horrid and sad in a extreme way.

Someone can say i’m promoting a sickness like Nicotine Poisoning becuase i have some pictures where i’m smoking, and i agree that will be better for me to stop smoking, but i’m not trying to promote it, i’m just showing tobacco as something i use, you can find it cool or completely stupid, but i’m not trying to glorify it, and i’m not pushing others to smoke.

The big problem for me is not this group members are showing their concept of beauty, is they are doing it outside fantasy, as a right concept in SL and RL, and in a so thoughtless way that they can affect real life of real people.

I’d like to add to my post this comment by Sura Abismo about Keiko’s image:

“All i can say is..

Anorexia is the sintom of another and even worst illness..

Anorexia is not the wish of being skinny..anorexia and Bulimia is the only way u can control urself when everyone is controling you

Anorexia is autodestruction..because u hate urself so much that the only thing u want is to be “perfect” to be loved for the ones ” u think ,dont”..

Anorexia is a big scream asking for help..not a selfish behavieur,not the wish of be the center of the world..not be a super model..

Anorexia is the resoult of be completly alone,surrunded by a fucking ambient full of pression..when the others pushs u to be “perfect” and reminds u all the days u r just a piece of shit..

Anorexia..TO ME is all of this

I was ill during several years..NOW AFTER 10 YEARS ,IM MATURE AND HAPPY,HEALTH AND FULL OF ENERGY ,i can talk about it..and explain in a normal way whats the mean of this..

I hate that society treats this illness as just a bunch of teens hungry of be supermodel..come on..theres always something behind..

This is why most of the people talks about it as a wish to be skinny…

I must say ty to Keiko,for treat this with lots of respect..cause unfortunetly..this becomes a real illness just a few years ago…
when i was ill..i was just “childish”

ty my love this is a big fucking great push to talk

claps to u”

 (Thanks, Sura, for giving me permission to post this comment and thanks for telling your mind.)