Careful, you could end up like John Prescott
French government to either shut up shop voluntarily or face new legislation in which their creators and promoters could be fined and even jailed for up to three years.
We checked out one of these “pro-ana” sites and discovered shocking content, and even more horrific pictures. Today, however, the same site, despite not having removed any of the psychologically twisted material, has changed its home page into a whiney “no one understands me, why can’t you all leave me alone” rant, featuring new polls which clearly tell the French government what the site’s author thinks of them.
“Are you Pro-Ana?” reads the title of a huge new poll which now appears on the site. The options given by the site's author, which give some indication of her state of mind since yesterday are:
1) Yes, and I weigh the recommended weight (35 kg for girls measuring 1m55, 38 kg for 1m60, 41 kg for 1m65, 44 kg for 1m70, 47 kg for 1m75, and 50 kg for 1m80)
2) Yes, but I weigh more than 5kg over the recommended weight
3) No and I’m a dirty anti-ana bitch, who does nothing but stuff her face all day, and even though I look like a big fat pig, I’m still on this site to piss the world off.
4) What does Pro-Ana mean?
The presumably skeletal ranter then desperately raves “Even though they tell me that I’m the one who is sick, a group of fatties have been circulating petitions against me to close my blog down, jealous fat asses!”.
She then goes on to whinge about the fact that it’s “insane” how many people don’t understand girls who want to live an anorexic lifestyle and see it as a capricious act carried out by a spoilt, rich, little girl (which she definitely sounds like, but sadly maybe not rich enough to afford good psychiatric treatment). In a pathetic admission, the girl writes “I’m not dieting to be thin! I’m dieting because I’m terrified that someone will think I’m fat” adding “no one will ever call me fat!”
She then goes on to berate people who she says see pro-ana girls as “little idiots who watch too much fashion tv” and says that she in no way gives any damaging tips to minors, writing “the only tip I can think of giving you is change blog [if it disturbs you]”.
Meanwhile, despite her self pitying, pathetically immature “defence”, the author fails to remove tips that could very well put minors’ (as well as older girls’) health at serious risk. One such tip on how girls can fool those around them about how much weight they’re losing, is to hoard Euro coins, pile them into a condom, tie a knot at the end and insert them just before being weighed to tip the scales.
It may not be the French government’s place to police the Internet for these sort of sick sites, run by clearly deranged teens, but it might just be in their interests to invest some money in better counselling services and better Web information to combat, what quite obviously, is a very dangerous obsession indeed.