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by Anonymous User on Saturday January 17, @09:30PM EST (#1)
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This is good to see. The Adonis Complex brought some media attention a years back, but then it all seemed to have gone back to only women. There was this one surprisingly good article at UCLA by a Megan Roush which actually tied it to a larger picture of men's issues. She was fair enough to say that part of the reason is also women's expectations (rather than just male competitiveness or ego, as many feminists allege). Megan turned out to be very level-headed and even came to an NCFM-LA meeting. http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/archivedarticles .asp?ID=1446&date=10/13/2000
Marc
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i have to say i've seen many men binge and pruge. i've seen guys starve themselves for a week and run with four or five layers on ( heavy sweatd, toped of with a rubber suit to increase body temp.) as well as puking and taking laxatives. and then after the match they would binge and at anything in sight. they would do this week in and week out eventualy ones body would just fail and pass out or break down and get sick. who knows what kind of long term damage this does and most of it goes unreported.
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It sounds like they need to take a longer term view of 'success' in terms of their lives as human beings as well as athletes and wrestlers.
Some degree of animal/common sense has to kick in somewhere along the line. If binging/purging/laxatives give one an 'edge' in competition, then I think one needs to look a lot more closely at just why one is so attached to succeeding in that competition in particular.
Life itself is a competition, less glamorous in the short term but infinitely more satisfying in the long!
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my boyfriend didn't have a life-threatening eating disorder or anything, but during highschool would eat so little. He'd throw out breakfast and lunch on the way to school, then eat as little as he could get away with. All of that was body-image, he was the fat kid when he went from homeschooling to public middle school. Not morbidly obese, but a chubby kid - but children are cruel. Impress the girls, quit being made fun, freak people out = starve. That feeling of your stomach trying to digest anything, painful stomach growling = power over something.
So he gets really really irritated when he - A. hears feminists complain about the rampant anorexia in females because of the media and B. sees media portraying eating disorders as only a problem females have [because of A].
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by Anonymous User on Thursday January 29, @09:53AM EST (#5)
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Hello!
I am in recovery for anorexia nervosa. During treatment, I became outraged at the lack od education and awareness about eating disorders. I have since developed this website: www.anorexiaactivism.bravehost.com, a line of products with brave messages and a newsletter. I am looking to get more men involved in this issue and put the myth to rest that only waspy rich girls develop eating disorders for attention. EDs are no more voluntary than any other life-threatening illness. Please come see the website-- let's trade links to other sites, support each other and help raise awareness for all the HUMAN BEINGS suffering from eating disorders.
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