Pro-Ana

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

Literate ana motivator. Not eating really fucks up their linguistic abilities.

Pro-ana is a pseudonym for the pro-anorexia internet movement, composed entirely of attention whoring 16-year-old girls who believe that having an eating disorder is a career and lifestyle choice and not a disease. These women make this statement to the ignorant fools who are against the movement on an almost regular basis, and of course the message is almost always taken to heart because there is clearly so much logic behind it that it's mind-boggling.

Typical Thinspiration.

[edit] Anorexia IS a Disease

This man is against the pro-ana community. He's a survivor!!

Those who are pro-ana believe that anorexia is not harmful and is a lot like getting a tattoo. They are only correct in this assumption if the tattoo is infected with AIDS from the last customer and the tattooer is a giant bear named Moe and the tattoo is of the phrase "Holy fucking idiocy!" tattooed across their very visible rib cages.

Indisputable proof that anorexia is a disease is easily found in the title: "pro-ana." The lack of nutrients flowing to their brains obviously keeps them from realizing that it's anorexia and not anarexia. Or something. Actually, that's no good. Forget the title. Indisputable proof that anorexia is a disease is easily found in common sense and unanimous medical opinion. The lack of nutrients flowing to their brains obviously keeps them from realizing that they are retarded.

There are pro-ana websites all across the Internets; they are easily found by searching for "pro-ana" or "no1 undrstandz me :'(" or "purging tips pls 911!!!" The LiveJournal community of the same name, pro_ana, is one of the most prolific.

pro_ana is mostly populated by impressionable girls between the ages of 13 and 18, with the occasional "ana boi" prancing in to show off his femi-hipbones (there used to be an older crowd, but they are now in a spin-off called "Ana Goes To College").

THINSPIRATION!

More typical thinspiration.

After numerous trollings, including the notorious and yet-unsolved Sansgras incident, the community and its many spinoffs have become pretty much closed to new members. Often new members must post applications, like in rating communities. New members may be rejected on the basis of too high a BMI, fauxlimia, or having a "cliché" thinspiration such as Mary-Kate Olsen. Much like rating communities, an "accepted" or "rejected" image macro is then bestowed upon the applicant.

proanorexia has become rather popular on LiveJournal lately. It was occasionally moderated by a laxative bulimic and crack addict with a criminal record for beating the shit out of her own mother until mid-to-late 2006, when it was transferred to Kristi4, who then committed suicide on January 27th, 2007 after finding herself unable to deal with the sheer volume of nitwits. The moderator of the bulimia acceptance community then accused Kristi4 of making the whole thing up without bothering to do any checking that would require her to actually get out of a chair to dial anyone on the phone, resulting in great drama. The admin of Pro-Ana; not_this_planet is responsible for approving the applications of every wannarexic who applies to pro-ana. NOTE: Spelling errors will get you banned and/or your application suspended. In short, he has teh ban-hammar and loves to use it!!

"Rejection" image macro from a pro-ana community.

Some argue that anorexia and bulimia are the results of a fear of fat people. However, LiveJournal and California both have large populations of both fatasses and anas. Anas are as much to be avoided IRL as BBWs, since both give off pungent stenches of sweat and vomit, both grow hair on their backs, and both are likely to have massive heart failure and die on you at any time. When not vomiting, asking for purging tips or being catatonic, anas like to spend their time trolling celebrity blogs like that of well-known fatty Perez Hilton as they are butthurt by their own inability to eat.

Numerous trolling sites exist, one of the best being LiveJournal's Ana 4 avril.

[edit] Jargon

The Holocaust was the original pro-ana movement. This picture is from Andersonville prison in the 1800s (Andersonville was the original pro-ana movement).

A typical bloated ana pic, found in the internets pro-ana toilet[1]

Here are some terms you may find useful.

• Ana—Anorexia. The band Silverchair, whose lead singer was anorexic, wrote a song called "Ana's Song."
• BBW—Big beautiful woman. Euphemism for a spherical or giant-pear-shaped woman who hates normal-sized people a lot and calls them all anas.
• Diet—"I'm just on a diet." = "I'm starving myself to death, won't you fucking notice me, PLEASE?"
• ED—Eating disorder. Euphemism for being a batshit crazy attention whore drawing attention by starving to death.
• Mia—Not "missing in action" but "mia" from BuliMIA. The two (ana/mia) tend to go hand in hand in these communities, as the girls share tips on the best ways to throw up and induce diarrhea.
• Thinspiration—combination of "thin" and "inspiration" (duh). Most thinspirations consist of pictures of pictures of thin models with inspirational phrases. For a while, a popular method of trolling was to post Holocaust victim photos under an LJ-cut labeled "thinspiration" or "thinspo". Some phrases include (these have all been spotted and are not made up by us!—ED staff)
  • "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."
  • "Love yourself to the bone."
  • "There's no such thing as inner beauty."
  • "Being thin and not eating are signs of true will power and success."
  • "Quod me nutrit, me destruit." (Latin for "What nourishes me, destroys me".)

[edit] Talking about weight

Eskimos have at least 100 words for snow. Pro-ana's have over 9000 words for "weight"...

LTGW

• CW—Current weight.
• HW—Highest weight.
• LW—Lowest weight.
• GW—Goal weight. Usually horribly disproportionate, like a 5'10" girl who wants to weigh 90 pounds.
  • STGW—Short-term goal weight.
  • LTGW—Long-term goal weight.
  • IP—In-patient treatment. A place where ana gurls are given instructions on how to operate sandwiches.

The terms "ana" and "mia" are often anthropomorphized and used as if they were actual people, so as to hide their "disease" from friends and family and in their posts. Example: "I sat with Ana during lunch, and we will also have 5th and 6th period together. I saw Mia in the bathroom after class and will probably hang out with her again after school."

[edit] ED communities

Sometimes otaku pass for pro-ana when they spend so much time reading manga that they forget to eat

The weight all pro-anas aspire to.

• something-fishy—Run by nazis. This board is for recovering only, and is unfunny. Numbers are replaced with asterisks because knowing someone else's weight might make a fishy suicide. Making a thread to exchange hug emoticons is also against the rules, because it might make a fishy feel left out and suicide. Any post has a 79% chance of causing suicide. Dr. Phil recommends it.

• TF—Filled with drama, but insanely repetitive. Most of the posters there are old now, and don't post about vomiting or starving much anymore. There is a forum specifically for flames, and that's the only real reason why anyone goes there. TFers are almost always vegans, liberal, and stupid.

• P.A.S.S.—stands for Pro-Ana Suicide Society. Full of 16 year old girls who get raped by the entire football team, their doctor, a teacher, their principal, and your mom. Anyone questioning stories of surprise sex is banned.

• Purgatorium—A LiveJournal community that once kicked out a tranny troll for being overly supportive for far too long.

• Life Beyond EDs—A LiveJournal recovery community run by the scrawniest, gayest, eating disordered transvestite on the net, Johnnysboysriot. Johnny frequently uses kittens, rainbow brite, and sparkles in his saccharine-sweet motivationals.

[edit] Other Pro-Ana

A small movement of people who like the name Ana and an even smaller movement of people who are fans of Anna Kournikova.

[edit] Trolling Ana

Pro-anas on YouTube with thinspiration videos are ridiculously easy to troll.

"Reefshadow- "Eat a fucking hamburger for god's sake, or just kill yourself outright. Be an hero."

" Akilileala- "fuck you. you shallow bastard I'm sick of hearing shit that ppl like you give pro ana's and pro mia's. Its not your place to insult someones view and ideals. If you want a hero so bad do somthing postive with you life instead of wasting you time insulting ppl that have more will power and strength you'll ever have you fucking prick."

"Akilileala- "I want everyone to be happy with themselves. Whatever it is that makes them happy do it! "Do what you will, and harm none"... some ppl take that advice unlike ppl like you. Pathetic..."

"Reefshadow- "Yes, by all means do what you think is best. Starve yourself and puke until your throat ruptures, your period ceases and your BMI is 2%. Awesome! You won't be able to walk 100 yards but you'll look SO good trying! You have the support of AkiliLeila! She WANTS you to do it!"

"Akilileala- "Vapid bitch. Can't you just see that ppl are just voicing there feelings?! Why must you bring them down on how they feel? You wouldn't like it if someone told you that you should kill your self for somthing you care deeply about. Its just wrong. you have no conscience and your mother raised you HORRIBLY! Both of you fuck yourself and get a life."

"Reefshadow- "Yes, because it is so socially important to "care deeply" about outward appearance. Pro ana and mias define "vapid" by their very existence. "do what you will, and harm none" -that's a fucking laugh, considering these choices KILL, and do untold damage to families and loved ones.Fuck off with your "Whaaaa, support every addiction I can think up" and like I said, eat a fucking hamburger. You're a fucking emo, aren't you? Well cry a sad tear emo, right after you puke up your lunch."

No reply yet, or probably evar. Troll an Ana today for great justice!

[edit] THE BIBLE SAYS YOU ONLY NEED 600 CALORIES A FORTNIGHT, I'M TOTALLY CEREAL YOU GUISE

"And the Lord said to Abraham, "Give me all your kine." And Abraham said, "But I like my kine." And the Lord said, "But you don't need your kine. You have a whole field full of kine. That's a lot of kine." And Abraham said, "But Lord, my kine are what I use to feed me and my family. Without all this kine, we'll surely die." But the Lord said, "You foolish, foolish Abraham. Everyone knows that nobody needs that much kine. The average person only needs 600 calories worth of kine every two-week, and a glass or two of water. And maybe a lobster bib for decoration." And Abraham rejoiced, and was happy, and so too the Lord, but Sarah wasn't because she'd just had another miscarriage through not getting enough iron."

Genesis 17 v 11-16

[edit] Members

• Andikins
• Ronders is, or was, a Pro-Mia.
• Chicago Audrey

[edit] See Also

• Skinny reality
• Somalia
• Liberia
• Ana 4 avril
• Breatharian
• Dark angel

[edit] Links

• pro_ana
• proanorexia
• thinandhealthy Some are pro-anas in denial.
• anorexicqueen Not as active, but everyone on here thinks that its SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS.
• Pro-Ana Mia (Recipes Inside)
• Pro-Ana Nation
• WATM's Thinspiration Article
• [2]something fishy
• [3];BBC catches on.
• New shock campaign. Sad fact: point is not to help these sick fuckers but to make the grossly obese feel good about themselves.
• An example of pro-ana kids
• Fat

[edit] Gallery

A dead body, I think...wait, no, she's still alive.	Typical fashion show	proanorexia responds with great passion to simple harassment.	redbraclet comm gets the cat treatment.
Either this or a blimp! OMFG!	Ana + monstrous implants = DO NOT WANT		Scenester.
Fanart	She's so HAWT	camwhore	Pro-ana cosplay
No comment	WTF	YOAR DOIN IT RONG!!1	Nigra pro ana.
This is NO FGAS.	She became an hero.	Prom 16 year old girl	No tits or ass just bones.
Pro-anas are SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS	Pro-ana MySpaz pic.	Pro Ana n00b

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