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Anorexia is a great thing in America. We shouldn't fight it at all. It's a good thiing. (Of course, an exception is made of Anorexia that is genetic. We'll help those guys and gals.)

The only kids who get Anorexia, are the spineless spoiled idiotic kids, who feel a need to conform to be popular, even at the cost of their own health. Personally, we don't want these people. They're wasting resources. SMART PEOPLE KNOW YOU HAVE TO EAT. They're so spineless, they'd do anything just be "with the crowd."

We don't need these people. We shouldn't have these people. Anorexia is a GOD-SEND, as it eliminates these people, without us resorting to full-blown genocide, and eventually only the REALLY stupid will die, because when they're in critical condition and they still ain't eating...well...we REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want you. Anorexia isn't a mental illness. It's a blessing. It allows us to elimiate the stupid from our gene pool.

I'm sorry if this was offensive to people, but I'm just stating a fact.

When you're in critical condition, and you still don't eat, you're REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid.

And if anyone who's not a total dumbass has anorexia, they'll eventually stop when they're in mortal danger. If they still don't, they're REALLY stupid. Just idiotic.

I also say, if this offended people, I apoogize, I just wanted to put in my view of the subject for Anorexia. This is just an issue I have an extreme view on. If you disagree with me, I can respect your opinion on it, and I hope that you will respect mine.

While that is very blunt and straight to the point, it is rather callous.

Now then, I wouldn't say that it is necessary a god-send, but, that natural selection bit... I would have to agree with you on the principle of the idea, even if not your wording. There are just some people who are too stupid to be able to survive, and so...

Good points made.

Yeah, it was blunt and callous, but sometimes being Blunt and Callous is the best way to get a message through. And that was what I was trying to do.

While you're a tad bit... erm... blunt and callous, you raise some good points here.

Yeah, it was blunt and callous, but sometimes being Blunt and Callous is the best way to get a message through. And that was what I was trying to do.
True and you did it rather tactfully, which is always important when being blunt.

They'll get over it eventually and most will lead normal and productive lives once they become more mature. We should definitely support the health of anorexics and get some sense into them.

They'll get over it eventually and most will lead normal and productive lives once they become more mature. We should definitely support the health of anorexics and get some sense into them.

Plus, redeemed anorexics are really, really easy.

I do not have anorexia, nor do I have first-hand experience with the condition, yet I have read a little bit on the subject.
I think that where you may have erred is in assuming that anorexia is a choice, and not a psychological condition. You say "anoriexia is not a mental illness" but you do not provide any reasoning or proof behind this. I agree, that for some people, in some cases, eating disorders are voluntary, and done to consciously fit in with one's peers. However, for the vast majority of actual sufferers, anorexia is not a decision, but an ingrained, automatic response to correct their skewed perspective of their body image. These people are not stupid, I'd say, but suffering from a mental illness, stemming from the intense pressures that our culture of vanity and shallowness exudes.

They'll get over it eventually and most will lead normal and productive lives once they become more mature. We should definitely support the health of anorexics and get some sense into them.
I'm actually not inclined to agree on this one.

Plus, redeemed anorexics are really, really easy.
Now that’s callous. :D
Serapindal is a light-weight (in the callousness category anyway).

The only kids who get Anorexia, are the spineless spoiled idiotic kids, who feel a need to conform to be popular, even at the cost of their own health. Personally, we don't want these people. They're wasting resources.
Wouldn't they be CONSERVING resources in NOT eating.....?

I gotta say, as a child model and somebody who was part of the "in" crowd, my only experiences with anorexia and/or bulemia were that they hit more the kids on the outside -- especially, in our cases, the ones who weren't even remotely trying to be part of our group. Usually the ones who made fun of our group. So did we mock them when we found out they were sick? .....Hell yes! BUT, we were young, and cocky......and I do feel bad about it now.

But still.....you can't claim it's all a bunch of spoiled idiots who want to be popular, because damn, WE were the spoiled popular kids.

I still say I'm not an idiot, though. I'm smarter than the average bear.

Most anorexic people aren't just dumbasses, and anyone that says so doesn't really understand the issue. It's similar to depression. You can tell a deppressed person to get happy, but it doesn't usually work that way. Similarly, anorexia is a mental illness, not just deliberate starvation.

Simonist']Wouldn't they be CONSERVING resources in NOT eating.....?

Well, they're still wasting stuff like consumer products, electricity, air, space, taxpayer money, etc. etc.

Well, they're still wasting stuff like consumer products, electricity, air, space, taxpayer money, etc. etc.
dude, I was just kidding. I know there's more to "resources" than food.

Simonist']dude, I was just kidding. I know there's more to "resources" than food.

Oh yeah. I see. You know, when I look back at it, it was pretty funny.

Most anorexic people aren't just dumbasses, and anyone that says so doesn't really understand the issue. It's similar to depression. You can tell a deppressed person to get happy, but it doesn't usually work that way. Similarly, anorexia is a mental illness, not just deliberate starvation.
Moreover, it isn't about eating (well, the true cases of anoreia and bulemia aren't) Usually, they are traced back to control issues. A person feels like there is nothing they can control in the world, so they choose to control food.

Plus, redeemed anorexics are really, really easy.
*highfive*

Most insightful post in this thread.

Moreover, it isn't about eating (well, the true cases of anoreia and bulemia aren't) Usually, they are traced back to control issues. A person feels like there is nothing they can control in the world, so they choose to control food.

So they 'control' food by puking it out? Wouldn't it be more fulfilling if the crap came out the other way? That's like, major ownage, forcing something to go through your digestive tract and out the anus. WHAT NOW, MR. KRISPY KREME?!!!!!1 You don't look so tough now that you're a brown, shriveled up turd.

cool thread man, whole lotta truths in here

So they 'control' food by puking it out? Wouldn't it be more fulfilling if the crap came out the other way? That's like, major ownage, forcing something to go through your digestive tract and out the anus. WHAT NOW, MR. KRISPY KREME?!!!!!1 You don't look so tough now that you're a brown, shriveled up turd.

No, then they'd be like everyone else. That's lame. Puking is so much more cool.

So they 'control' food by puking it out? Wouldn't it be more fulfilling if the crap came out the other way? That's like, major ownage, forcing something to go through your digestive tract and out the anus. WHAT NOW, MR. KRISPY KREME?!!!!!1 You don't look so tough now that you're a brown, shriveled up turd.
I think it's more the satisfaction of ingesting then regurgitating -- if you don't digest, you can still see the look on its face.....

Simonist']I think it's more the satisfaction of ingesting then regurgitating -- if you don't digest, you can still see the look on its face.....

If only that lion that ate the circus migget like a month ago was annorexic.

No, then they'd be like everyone else. That's lame. Puking is so much more cool.

By puking up, they lose. It's like admitting they're beaten, that they can't handle the food. Weaklings.

By puking up, they lose. It's like admitting they're beaten, that they can't handle the food. Weaklings.

Forget you. Puking is where it's at.

Forget you. Puking is where it's at.

I'm sure you love that rotten, acidic taste lingering in your mouth. The taste of defeat.

I agree with you 100%. Anyone who is anorexic can just fall over and drop dead for all I care. Huh, funny how they are all girls too (with the exception of jockies who have a halfway decent reason for doing it). Whoever has classified it as a disorder is stupid.

I'm sure you love that rotten, acidic taste lingering in your mouth. The taste of defeat.

Being cool comes with a pricetag.

Being cool comes with a pricetag.

Don't stop there. Pick up smoking too. Thirty years from now, you can have cancer, wooden teeth, and a gaping hole in your neck.

Don't stop there. Pick up smoking too. Thirty years from now, you can have cancer, wooden teeth, and a gaping hole in your neck.

That IS the style nowadays.

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Originally Posted by Vegas-Rex
Plus, redeemed anorexics are really, really easy.

*highfive*

Most insightful post in this thread.

*agrees*

in summary:

if you're obese, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

if you're anorexic, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

the only people who deserve to live are those born with abnormally high metabolisms.

Don't stop there. Pick up smoking too. Thirty years from now, you can have cancer, wooden teeth, and a gaping hole in your neck.
Whaddya mean? I'm a smoker and I don't have any of those symptoms.

Oh wait, you mean.....wait....smoker? Or, like.....smoker? There's a difference.

I'd better shut up.

in summary:

if you're obese, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

if you're anorexic, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

the only people who deserve to live are those born with abnormally high metabolisms.
Or the people who know how to take care of themselves....?
(I want to live!)

clearly the only obese people eat constantly and never exercise at all. it has nothing to do with genetics, and there's absolutely no possibility of hormonal disorders affecting one's weight.

clearly the only obese people eat constantly and never exercise at all. it has nothing to do with genetics, and there's absolutely no possibility of hormonal disorders affecting one's weight.

I've been diagnosed with a substantially low metabolism.

I've 5'7, and 130 pounds.

in summary:

if you're obese, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

if you're anorexic, society hates you. you're repulsive, and you should die.

the only people who deserve to live are those born with abnormally high metabolisms.
Just because you aren’t a twig doesn’t mean you are obese.

I've been diagnosed with a substantially low metabolism.

I've 5'7, and 130 pounds.
My boat too, buddy. Only I'm 135 these days 'cause I just quit caring when I heard that I've got another year before I should renegotiate my contract. Ho hum.

Just because you aren’t a twig doesn’t mean you are obese.

Obese means you're 5'6, and 200 pounds for the love of god.

Simonist']My boat too, buddy. Only I'm 135 these days 'cause I just quit caring when I heard that I've got another year before I should renegotiate my contract. Ho hum.

Dude, I've never even played a sport in my entire life out of P.E. Never. Ever.

There are more important things then sports like eer...um...Nationstates?

Dude, I've never even played a sport in my entire life out of P.E. Never. Ever.

There are more important things then sports like eer...um...Nationstates?
Lol, god, not sports, NEVER sports.....modeling. Even worse!! :p

But yeah, seriously, why take up sports when I can surf the boards and lord myself over an entire nation?

Simonist']Lol, god, not sports, NEVER sports.....modeling. Even worse!! :p

But yeah, seriously, why take up sports when I can surf the boards and lord myself over an entire nation?

EXACTLY! And Nationstates is much healthier, because if you lose track of time, you can forget to eat. Perfect weight loss. As long as you don't excercise too much.

And I'd have to say that you are pretty damn wrong OP.

Have you ever met someone with Aneroxia Nervosa? Do you understand what it is? It sure as hell isn't something that's easy to quit doing, or is voluntary. It's a fucking compulsion. Something that a non-conscious part of the mind makes people do. I've known people who have been afflicted by Anorexia, and they certainly aren't doing it out of vanity.

This is extremely offensive to me and to many others. I personally have a lingering eating disorder (and actually, I am a guy) and it is hell. It came, pretty much, out of nowhere—no media, fashion or sports involvement (I hate sports, don't watch TV or listen to the radio or read [many] magazines [at least none with any mention of weight loss or malnourished supermodels], and don't give a damn about fashion). I know now that I was actually underweight when it first began, which was several years ago. It started out with an almost obsessive-compulsive behavior in which I tried to see how little I could eat without my parents noticing, as a sort of game, actually, at the time. When I realized how much lighter I felt after a while, it became an obsession with losing weight. It wasn't that I felt too fat so much as that I felt I was too substantial. I didn't like leaving footprints. I didn't like leaving a mark at all. To this day I am OCD about purging my History, chache, and every other record over which I have control.


Anorexia is a great thing in America. We shouldn't fight it at all. It's a good thiing. (Of course, an exception is made of Anorexia that is genetic. We'll help those guys and gals.)
Wow, how considerate. Anorexia that is genetic? Never heard of a case. Of course, it could be inherited, but how can you tell?


The only kids who get Anorexia, are the spineless spoiled idiotic kids, who feel a need to conform to be popular, even at the cost of their own health. Personally, we don't want these people. They're wasting resources. SMART PEOPLE KNOW YOU HAVE TO EAT. They're so spineless, they'd do anything just be "with the crowd."

Not true. I hate following along with the crowd. My objective in life is to stand out. I don't want to be popular, either; I'm content with being the freaky nerdy gay boy who nobody talks to.

We don't need these people. We shouldn't have these people.
We shouldn't have these people, correct. Because IT IS A DISEASE. And a human-induced one, too.

Anorexia is a GOD-SEND, as it eliminates these people, without us resorting to full-blown genocide, and eventually only the REALLY stupid will die, because when they're in critical condition and they still ain't eating...well...we REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want you. Anorexia isn't a mental illness. It's a blessing. It allows us to elimiate the stupid from our gene pool.

I don't mean to brag, but I know for a fact that I am not stupid, seeing as I have been in the Gifted program all my life, have skipped a grade, and went for a year to a private school for gifted children. My parents also saw fit to let me know my own IQ, and believe me, I am not stupid. I have a life-threatening disease. This is a mental disease. I am ILL. I need to get better. Okay?

I'm sorry if this was offensive to people, but I'm just stating a fact.
I see no fact here.

When you're in critical condition, and you still don't eat, you're REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid.
Or perhaps REALLY REALL REALLY REALLY REALLY ill, genius.

And if anyone who's not a total dumbass has anorexia, they'll eventually stop when they're in mortal danger. If they still don't, they're REALLY stupid. Just idiotic.
This is getting REALLY redundant, have you noticed? As previously stated, I am not stupid.

I also say, if this offended people, I apoogize, I just wanted to put in my view of the subject for Anorexia. This is just an issue I have an extreme view on. If you disagree with me, I can respect your opinion on it, and I hope that you will respect mine.
I disagree, having first-hand experience, and hope you can comprehend what I am going through. I have a disease. I have, in fact, an illness that puts me, in its worse phases, in a constant state of mortal danger. It is not an illusion. It is not a trend. I'm sick and I need to get better, look at it that way.