Raymi vs Terra: A Media Icon and Just Me
I’ve made it fairly clear, I think media has a lot to do with females’ body-image issues, but I don’t think the media is to blame for eating disorders. I actually think that eating disorders are a secondary reaction to the saturation of media in first-world countries, a quantifiable mental illness and that few will ever develop one without a predisposition for it. I don’t think you go on a diet to look like Cameron Dias and then, bam, you’ve got an eating disorder. And, I don’t even think that all girls who might look like me and act like me have them.
There is a sub-class of eating disorder sufferers calling themselves ‘pro-ana’. And within this sub-class there is a sub-sub-class, if you will, who many of us lippy ones call ‘wannarexics.’ These are the ones that give media full responsibility because they read magazines and perezhilton and thought, hey, I wanna be this famous and worshipped and being thin, that’s obviously the way. These are the people that truly sick ones sneer towards. In part, because they’re making a mockery of all of our work, but also because, well it’s just so amazingly trashy.
So I thought, you guys get to hear my opinions so often, why not have a celebrity from the most newly-popular media medium, the blogosphere, give her comments, too? This woman has been interviewed here before, she’s been blogging for eight years, she’s ranked barely over 25,000 on technorati (ED Talk is ranked at 65,568) and 400,000 on Alexa (ED Talk: 8,190,059), has won numerous awards for blogging and is a published book writer.
All accomplished by her 24th year.
| Terra Says | Raymi Says | |
| Pro-Ana Movement vs. Modern Media | There’s no difference, the media is really the driving force and/or parent of the Pro-Ana movement. | There is no difference, really, other than the media tries to hide what it is actually doing while doing it, kinda like the Bush administration, very good liars. Come to think of it, aren’t anorexics supposed to hide that they’re anorexic? |
| How your body image affects your day-to-day life, writing, social interaction, etc. | If I feel negative, I am less positive, enthusiastic and tend to hide, as much as I can. I don’t engage others and am lifeless when they do, me. Yet, I crave engagement, because on some level, it assures me of my acceptance, regardless of whale-like proportions or perceptions. | It affects everything i do, and i’ve noticed the more i lose weight, people treat me differently. Not that i am losing loads of weight, I just detect a change. People like you to stay fat if you’re fat, and immediately are turned off if you start feeling more confident about yourself and act accordingly. If i have a fat day, I find I am less "on" and might want to stay indoors. |
| A social occasion: great booze or amazing food? | Booze. Food is a luxury, in social situations; booze is a necessity. | Both. What great restaurant exists w/o wine on the menu? If hard-pressed, I guess great booze and eat at home or great food and drink elsewhere. Ooh, can’t decide. |
| Who do women lose weight for? | Themselves, to feel acceptable and successful, in addition to being able to take pride in measuring higher than their potential competition. | They lose it for themselves, then their boyfriend, then to make other women suffer, I dunno. I do it for myself, everyone else can blow me. |
| Most wary of a man or woman seeing you naked? | Woman. In general, men seem to just be happy seeing a naked body, women will remember details and then later tell their friends about it. I suppose men will too, but when they’re telling a naked woman story, they tend to overdo the hotness, not the opposite. | Well, first I get a look at the woman’s body and compare it to mine, and if it’s better… I totally block it out of my mind and get down. Guys are morons. All you have to do is pose the right way lying down, and all they see is miles of hip curve and boobs. Guys are basically monkeys. |
| Trying to raise kids, when you have an eating disorder: selfish? | I don’t consider it selfish so much as irresponsible on some level if you are obviously suffering, practicing habits around your children and/or condoning the illness. Pro-Ana moms turn my stomach; those with an immediate goal of recovery do not. | You don’t need to have an eating disorder to be selfish. |
| Douchiest thing a reader of your blog has ever said about your weight | “you are sick and aneriexic and no one can say one mean thing to you or you crumble yet you sure love to dish it out i give what three weeks at *** and you’ll fuck it up, if you think for one minute you are better than me think again.” |
This one chick (who poses as a fan) told me i was getting hefty, again. i was bloated - period weight - in these "arty" photos i posted… |
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