Translating Tumblr: The Bog of Pro-Ana

In the latest installment of Translating Tumblr, Cate delves into the disturbing world of Pro-Ana (Pro Anorexia) 

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Are you ready, read­er? This is one of the more dis­gust­ing dens on Tumblr. Let’s open the gates.

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We can still turn back now, it’s not too late…Oh god, you are still here. Let’s just get this over with. This here is what’s called the pro-anorexics. They glo­ri­fy eat­ing dis­or­ders and strive to be skin­ny. Who knows how many of them are ac­tu­al peo­ple with eat­ing dis­or­ders who need help, like now, or how many are just edgelords who eat cheese burg­ers when they think nobody’s look­ing and hiss at small amounts of food in front of peo­ple. To put it more suc­cinct­ly, fak­ers. I have a his­to­ry with peo­ple who fake eat­ing dis­or­ders and let me tell you, there’s go­ing to be a lot of cuss words here. Mental dis­or­ders are com­mon thing on Tumblr, whether they be faked or ac­tu­al peo­ple suf­fer­ing from them. So strap in, and let’s get this show on the road. *Cracks knuck­les*

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I’m not pro­mot­ing it, but hey I want to be a fuckin’ anorex­ic and de­stroy my body while I also look for oth­ers to die with and re­blog pho­tos of bony girls.”

Look at the tags they use. Using these, it’s hard to be­lieve they’re not ro­man­ti­ciz­ing and pro­mot­ing eat­ing disorders.

These must be the same bafoons that ac­tu­al­ly think anorex­ia is not se­ri­ous, id­iots who go on TV or ra­dio, and act as though it’s some trendy diet. I mean look at them!

Do you hear that? It’s com­ing from the bog. The call of strength. Well, it’s not re­al­ly strength, but they think it is. Mental dis­or­ders, es­pe­cial­ly eat­ing ones, have noth­ing to do with strength. They have to do with the fact that your men­tal state has de­te­ri­o­rat­ed so much that you’ve be­gun to dras­ti­cal­ly and dan­ger­ous­ly change your eat­ing habits. Let’s keep go­ing, take my hand, this is go­ing to only get sicker.

They have blogs as “jour­nals” for their weight loss. It’s just as crazy as it sounds. I have a hard time just look­ing at them. Just don’t look them di­rect­ly in the eye.

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The worst part is that they claim to not pro­mote it, but they post things that pro­mote starv­ing them­selves, and push oth­ers to do the same. They only do it to avoid Tumblr Staff, the labyrinth clean­ers, tak­ing down their blogs. Although Tumblr Staff is too busy think­ing up ways to make the lay­out worse to even no­tice them, so they should be fine.

I re­al­ly wish you could see the names of these blogs, they’re pret­ty bad. It’s hard not to imag­ine they’re glo­ri­fy­ing this shit, and it makes me sick to my stom­ach. Luckily, most of Tumblr ac­tu­al­ly ab­hors these peo­ple. So at least we can all agree with each oth­er there.

They want friends to die with, let me say this again. THEY WANT SOMEONE TO DIE WITH.

A lot of them are just trendy teens, which piss­es me off even more. They think it’s a fuck­ing diet, so they start up a whole cul­ture around killing your­self via star­va­tion. Maybe so­ci­ety failed them, or maybe they’re seek­ing at­ten­tion — we’ll nev­er know. As for the ones with le­git­i­mate dis­or­ders, I feel for them. They’re sur­round­ed by id­iots who made them think it’s ac­cept­able to harm your­self this way, and now the pro-ana crowd makes it hard­er to get the help they need.

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And look at this. Ana tips? Really? Keep walk­ing, we’re al­most out of here. Don’t talk to them, there’s no use.

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We have to push through these last few, and we’re out of the bog! Over these rocks, come on! Escape is near!

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*Drags you to­wards the exit*

I’m sor­ry I’ve showed you this, but we had to go through this part some­time. I thought we may as well rip the band-aid off quick­ly and get it over with. Looks like we are past the bog now, and back into the labyrinth. Oh God, thank you, fi­nal­ly. Let’s go sit over there by those troll blogs. They’re harm­less, don’t worry.

I promise the next leg of the jour­ney won’t be so un­set­tling. Rest up, be­cause we’re go­ing to need it!

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