Hard to Believe, But True

[sanjuuro]

proanorexia does "far more good than harm"? LJ Abuse apparently thinks so. It didn't do much good to its one-time moderator, who starved herself to death...

Comments

[iblis_kukl]

And that ex-moderator (heh) grew up to be...Karen Carpenter.

(Okay, that puts me one tasteless joke over my quota, so I'm done for the night.)

eliazar

[counter_zero]

wow, that's...
yeah, wow...

[sanjuuro]

Yeah, exactly: wow.

[weishaupt]

*blinks*

[prettyoctopussy]

It's pretty simple, IMO. There are very strict laws against child porn. Inanely strict one might even say.

AFAIK there are no laws against telling women how to starve themselves to death. The bullshit about it expressing a minority view and making the women feel not alone is...bullshit. Dieting and anxiety about weight and encouraging anxiety about the body in women is the majority view. And it's not illegal.

So it's not a question of virtue (as they try to make it seem in this strange reply) but a question of legality.

[sanjuuro]

Unfortunately for that line of reasoning, which has consistently been the one that Six Apart's minions have been attempting to push, the very strict laws against child porn have specifically exempted drawings--the pretext for the latest round of bannings--from falling under that description. So "kiddy porn" can't be the issue.

Wikipedia has a fair rundown on the PROTECT Act, which has attempted to expand what falls under this definition and notes that it "Prohibits drawings, sculptures, and pictures of such drawings and sculptures depicting minors in actions or situations that meet the (Miller test) of being obscene, OR are engaged in sex acts that are deemed to meet the same obscene condition. The law does not state that images of fictional beings who appear to be under 18 engaged in sexual acts that are not deemed to be obscene are rendered illegal in and of their own condition (illustration of sex of fictional minors)."So, Six Apart's claims fail on several grounds here: first, it's entirely unclear that there are any "minors" in

[sanjuuro]

Oh, and by the same token, there are laws against assisting someone in committing suicide: that's what they got Kevorkian on...

[prettyoctopussy]

Good points, both. I think 6A is trying to cover their asses to the extreme with the child-porn thing first off all. Covering of ass comes long before "free speech" or "customer service" or even "being clear about the rules" on their priority list, it has become clear.

I agree with you that pro-ana is tantamount to assisted suicide, but I think the luminaries at 6A have not thought it through this way. Might have something to do with them not giving a shit about lj.

[surf_sidhe]

::sigh::

::headdesk::

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