A disease that emotional
girls get themselves into subconsciously, being slowly indoctrinated as they become teenagers, that being beautiful means being
skinny.
These young
girls do not realise the insignificance of physical
beauty and therefore throw themselves into dieting that quickly gets out of control.
Mentally they believe that they need to be
skinny and that they will never be beautiful.
What
poor anorexics need is some good time to think: life is more than popularity and looks.
Too bad young
girls get themselves caught up in a socially competitive culture and therefore find themselves into this horrible disorder.
BASICALLY, the disorder is caused by a lack of intelligent thought, resulting from blind obedience of social expectations, significant celebrity worship, a need to please, a belief that life is about attention from boys and other peers, as well as a thought that the social parts of life is most important.
All this stems from improperly raising female children into thinking they must be pretty and that they need approval. Dependancy upon other opinions, low self-esteem, etc are the fault of society, but it is the
GIRL's fault that she did not THINK about her way of thinking, her lifestyle and her
world more deeply.
Unfortunately, anorexic
girls feel like they've been wronged by the
world and they have done nothing wrong and had innocently been led into this
world of misguided dieting.
They are mostly correct, since society has taught them that the defining quality of a woman is her feminity:
beauty and fragility. BUT...
The thing they do not realise is that they, as human beings, have a responsibility to THINK for themselves, to LEARN on their own, not completely having to be reliant upon guardians or media sources to tell them what to do. Encouraging independant intellectual philosophical thought is important.
Ignorance. It kills.
Pre-anorexia
girl #1: Celebrities! They'll know what to do!
Pre-anorexia
girl #2: Gosh! I wish
Brad would just notice me!
Pre-anorexia
girl #3: Being beautiful is EVERYTHING!
Pre-anorexia
girl #4: Lindsay Lohan is my idol! I want to be as beautiful as her!
Pre-anorexia girl #
5: My life means nothing if that group of girls don't accept me! I have to be thin and skinny! I need a cool social life or I'm screwed emotionally!
Adult observer of such ideas: There is a reason why most anorexic people are teenager girls, and that is that as people grow, they mature and think more often, realising what is important and what is wise. Too bad for anorexic girls who didn't do any of that.