Monday, April 7, 2008

pro-ana

My wife and I have received a tremendous amount of comments in the past week. We logged in today for the first time since last week and were surprised at the amount of hatemail and empty threats intended to scare us and intimidate us. That shouldn't surprise us at this point, but it did. And we have consulted with a family attorney who has assured us that the legal threats are entirely without merit.
We also had one comment from a girl saying she had saved some of the pictures posted to use as "thinspiration." We said from the beginning that we did not want to add to this pro-ana, we wanted to show it for what it was. We are removing the pictures because of this. We do NOT want to contribute to thinspiration. We have decided, instead to show the things we saw on these websites our niece was browsing. Maybe these will only add to "pro-ana" as well. Who knows. But we just hope it will help.

This is what we found our niece looking at: