anorexia

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.