Current mood:

Candy-Coated

Plz eat a sandwich k?
At live journal community gymrats, what could possibly get everyone more excited than an in depth discussion about squats?

A good wank apparently...

For those not in the know gymrats is a community for responsible and enlightened gym enthusiasts. What this means is that those who are more concerned with being thin, than being healthy, or who are afraid of free weights, muscles, or eating, need not bother joining.

All of this is mentioned quite clearly in the user information, which is also (quite clearly) mentioned on the main page.

As you can imagine this mostly goes ignored by your average under eater, and as such is a pet peeve of your average gymrats regular.

After seeing more than their fair share of posts with the same ‘stupid’ questions some community members are less than friendly when they encounter a user who is either too lazy, or in the case of emziem, too nutrition deprived to actually read.

gentlemaitresse is, as usual less than gentle with the noob, here, and here too.

Op! Looks like she/he/it could be a troll!

A poem and some sympathy. Srsly.

Small, but worth the effort, that's the gymrats mentality folks!

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	velvet_mace 2007-07-31 06:30 am UTC (link)
	Mostly OT: but it burns me a bit that LJ is going after fanfic that depicts fictional juveniles getting laid, and is perfectly fine with all these pro_ana groups, many of whom are full of juveniles supporting each other's attempts to starve. Slightly more OT: normalcyispasse is pretty easy on the eyes. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	velvet_mace 2007-07-31 06:31 am UTC (link)
	Just clarifying Gymrats isn't pro_ana: The OP is a member of a whole shitload of pro_ana groups. (Reply to this)(Parent)

vzg
2007-08-01 02:26 am UTC (link)

Total agreement. You can't mention a fake teen's naughty bits, but you sure as hell can help someone kill themselves -- or at least worsen a condition that's bound to cause them psychological and physical trauma even if they do get treatment.

Also, I know they've said they don't allow anything "unlawful," but have they mentioned anything about going after communities promoting drug addiction? I didn't read all the comments to that post (because there were a lot of the, obviously) but I can't recall it being brought up at all.

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issendai
2007-08-01 02:50 am UTC (link)

Online services have been going around and around on this one for years, and it's come down to:

1. It's legal. Horrible for you, but legal.

2. If you kill one community, another pops up somewhere. Might as well keep them where you can see them.

3. The best pro-ana groups act like needle exchanges: Members trade tips on how to do what they're going to do anyway without killing themselves in the process, and there are knowledgeable people around to get people help when they're ready for help.

Pro-ana groups upset me, but there's no way to get rid of them, and it's not like anorexics would stop being anorexic if they didn't have a group.

*cleans up after self*

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vzg
2007-08-01 03:07 am UTC (link)

I don't want to be wanky, but I just can't be accepting of them. It's not all just tips on how to be safe -- it's the "thinspiration" that makes them think they need to be even thinner and, what's worse, it's how to hide it from their friends and family, who could otherwise recognize it and get them help.

I know there's always going to be stuff like this, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't rather have the problem reduced.

~~Also, thankfully number two applies to just about everything on the internet, so yay for the not-yet-eighteen Harry Potter pr0n just moving instead of being gone forever.~~

I'll shut up now.

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	taktuk 2007-08-03 07:41 am UTC (link)
	Pro-ana groups scare me, but I've always been afraid of the undead. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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