"Thinspiration"

Okay, So to tell you the truth, I was going to skip blogging today because I was hoping my readers could give me some ideas of what they would like to see in my future blogs.  But then I opened yahoo news and saw this, for lack of better word, SHIT article about promoting anorexia photos. . . After you all take a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor, yes, you read that right.  PRO-ANOREXIA!  Apparently, now it is okay to be anorexic!
Here is the Article! 
If you'd like to read for yourself!
I've never heard of this 'thinspiration' stuff so of course I had to google it.  I found quotes like "the longer you put it off by 'starting tomorrow' the longer you will have to wait to be skinny."  . . . . Really?!  THAT is supposed to inspire people to quit eating and become skinny?
The pictures on the blogs I found were disgusting!  Women who were once healthy, now proud to be so rail thin that their bones are actually popping out!  Poor girls probably hurt to even smile they are so thin!  And society is saying its OKAY to promote this?!
I don't have any children yet, but I know that if my baby girl came up to me and said she is going to stop eating because she wants to look like one of these 'thinspiration' models, I would probably come unglued!
"Thinspiration- inspiration for a thinner society.".  I can't believe they are really trying to promote this!  Just because you are thin doesn't mean you are healthy!  Who gives a rats ass if society is "thin"?  Shoudn't we be more worried about the health of society?  I would rather live in a world of HEALTHY people than a world full of bad makeup zombie look a likes.....

I understand that they are trying to promote weight loss and if they were doing it the right way, towards the right groups, I would applaud them.  But showing pictures of girls who are already thin, then showing their "amazing transformation" into an anorexic toothpick, is not inspiring to me.  It's actually quite sad.

"Do it for the skinny fingers" . . . Really?  Do you see anywhere on there that says "DO IT TO BE HEALTHY"?  I don't!
I wear a bikini!  I wear tank tops, shorts, miniskirts, and jeans.  Yes, my thighs touch, I guess I have fat fingers, and yes people stare already.  Guess I am half way there!
I am beautiful!  I am happy!  I am healthy!
I am beginning to think anorexia is the least of our problems as a society!  I think we are borderline, if not full blown, IGNORANT!
Society is to the point where it is going to PROMOTE anorexia, a HORRIBLE, life threatening DISEASE, in order to make people skinny.  But yet there is a fast food chain within stones throw from you at any given time.  Wouldn't it be much easier to maybe, make healthier foods at fast food chains rather than promote a disease for health?

I don't understand how anyone could feel comfortable trying to promote something like this!  It really makes me sick!  Oh, look guys, I could just become anorexic and then go buy skinny jeans!  PERFECT! . . .
THIS is what your children are going to see as "beautiful".  I'm sorry, I will be the first to say, I refuse to live in a society full of this.....

That is disgusting!  There is NOTHING healthy about having a body like this!  The poor woman looks like she could fall apart in the slightest wind!  For the love of God, how could anyone in their right mind feel like it is okay to promote?

I came across this add.  "I just want to hear those words, 'have you lost weight?'"  Okay, take a second and look at this girl.  Do you think she needs to lose weight?  I go back to my previous statement, I am not upset they are trying to promote weight loss.  I just don't comprehend why they would try to target people who really have no need to do anything but gain a little weight!  If this girl pictured lost any more weight, I for one would be worried she was sick!

I had to read more into this whole "thinspiration" epidemic.  While doing so, I came across this quote.
"Thinspiration, for many, is part of identifying with their eating disorder. They are often aware that they have an eating disorder, but seek things that will validate and justify the choices they make based on the struggle they have with their eating disorder."
So not only are we going to promote having an eating disorder, now we're going to help people along with their eating disorder showing them how "beautiful" they will be if they continue on with their DISEASE!
It's funny because I remember in middle school and high school, when the topic of eating disorders came up in health class, we would talk about how you should seek help for such a thing.  Now, in just a few short years, society has decided that an eating disorder is no longer a 'disorder' but now a healthy choice because it will make you skinny!

I can't even continue this topic anymore.  I am so disgusted.  I just wanted everyone to know what was out there in today's world!  People saying if you are sick, you can become happy!
So I leave you with this.

Thinspiration can kiss my WELL ROUNDED ass!