Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I'll Follow you into the Dark

Two years ago today I lost my sister and my best friend. Heather was 20 years old when she passed. She had diabetes since she was 15, and had been anorexic and bulimic for years. Heather was 5'7" and at her lowest weight was only 88 pounds. The last several years of her life she was in and out of the hospital. Today, while trying to hold myself together I have thought about affected by the cult of thinness. I started reading about "thinspo" short for Thin Insperation. They are stories of women encouraging other women to do what ever it takes to be thin. Phrases like "thin is in" and "if it tastes good its bad" further perpetuate this disease. Do these stories fall under free speech, even though they can be damaging to a young girls soul?


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