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POPSNew France Law: Thin Models Illegal!
The bill reflects concerns about pro-anorexic (so-called pro-ana) websites, said to encourage extreme weight loss. But Boyer said the legislation's impact would be wide-ranging. The bill is the latest in a series of measures to be proposed following the 2006 anorexia-linked death of a Brazilian model prompted efforts to tackle eating disorders within the fashion industry. Didier Grumbach, president of the influential French Federation of Couture, said: "Never will we accept in our profession that a judge decides if a young girl is skinny or not skinny. That doesn't exist in the world, and it will certainly not exist in France." Marleen S Williams, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Utah, who researches the media's effect on anorexic women, said it was almost impossible to prove that the media causes eating disorders. She said studies showed fewer eating disorders in "cultures that value full-bodied women". But she added that she fears the new French law,
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POPSanabanana i'm really not pro-ana, very much pro-recovery, but these artwork and photos just fascinate me...
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POPSOn Social Networking Sites, Pro-Anorexia Seems Validated Prior to the rise of sites like Facebook and MySpace, these forums were "relatively anonymous," small in size and difficult to locate, according to the BBC. But now, the easy-to-access MySpace website hosts groups like "Pro Ana Nation," and Facebook includes groups such as "Get thin or die trying." MySpace's response is that it can be "very tricky" to determine which groups exist to provide support for those suffering from eating disorders and which exist to promote anorexia and bulimia
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POPSPro-Ana groups grow on social networking sites I personally think these groups do need to exist. Banning them won't cure people of anorexia and at keast they have others to talk to who understand how they feel - something no non-anorexic can. There again, others may say that these social networks will encourage young people to over-slim and eventually get anorexia. That also may be a valid point. But I still don't think banning them is the answer. What do others think?
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POPSVenezuela's great divider [P] The American Left crack me up. They engage in paranoid fantasies about what they imagine George Bush is doing "behind the scenes" while simultaneously thinking what a cool guy Cha'vez is, totally buying his front.
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