Monday, February 4, 2008
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Survey
If you have ever been or are currently anorexic or bulimic, please take this survey through the link below.
Eating Irregularities Survey
Eating Irregularities Survey
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Resistance and Incorporation
How do extreme sports and anorexia/bulimia both resist and conform to popular culture?
How are meanings surrounding the behavior of anorexics/bulimics and those who engage in extreme sports socially producted?
Are those who engage in extreme sports and/or anorexia/bulimia confined by their behavior in any way? Does this very behavior that has the potential to confine people also help these individuals to develop and grow?
If we both make and are made by culture, why are those with anorexia and bulimia denied their own agency and pathologized?
Just curious as to what everyone thinks of these questions posted above. Maybe one cannot even understand the behaviors and emotions behind eating irregularities and extreme sports unless one has been engaged in the behavior themselves...
How are meanings surrounding the behavior of anorexics/bulimics and those who engage in extreme sports socially producted?
Are those who engage in extreme sports and/or anorexia/bulimia confined by their behavior in any way? Does this very behavior that has the potential to confine people also help these individuals to develop and grow?
If we both make and are made by culture, why are those with anorexia and bulimia denied their own agency and pathologized?
Just curious as to what everyone thinks of these questions posted above. Maybe one cannot even understand the behaviors and emotions behind eating irregularities and extreme sports unless one has been engaged in the behavior themselves...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Extreme Behavior
Do you like to sit back and enjoy the show? Or would you rather feel like you are part of the action?
More and more people want to be involved with the entertainment they are seeking. Pop culture currently tries to get the individual involved as much as possible. People want to be part of the action because it makes us all feel "special" in some way or another. People will pay about $50 to go to Knott's Scary Farm or Halloween Horror Night at Universal Studies in order for people to scare them. But in order to keep people coming back each and every year, these theme parks have to keep making these events more and more extreme, year after year. The same thing can be said about horror movies. In order to keep people interested, they must be more and more extreme. Reality tv shows, such as Fear Factor have also become more extreme after several seasons, and the list could go on and on.
People will pay a decent amount of money to go bungee jumping or sky diving. Engaging in extreme sports is becoming more and more popular. Extreme sports are viewed, for the most part, as an acceptable way to engage in extreme activity, even though extreme sports pose a risk to the individual's engaging in the behavior. Extreme sports are an acceptable way of pushing one's body to the limit and seeing what one's body can do and not do. Every single year, people attempt to climb Mount Everest, knowing that they risk dying in pursuit of this goal. But those who die in pursuit of this goal are seen as courageous. Those who actually reach the top of Mount Everest are glorified. Extreme sports require rigid self-control, training, self-discipline especially in regards to ones body.
Anorexia and Bulimia. An individual's attempt at pushing their body to the limit. Rigid self-control and self-discipline to achieve their desired body image. But society pathologizes these individuals. Anorexia and bulimia are viewed as psychological problems even though society keeps pushing more and more extreme behavior. Anorexia and Bulimia do pose a risk to the individual engaging in the behavior, but so does extreme sports. People view anorexics and bulimics as "insane" because people wonder why anyone would risk their health and their life. But why are extreme sports viewed in a different light?
More and more people want to be involved with the entertainment they are seeking. Pop culture currently tries to get the individual involved as much as possible. People want to be part of the action because it makes us all feel "special" in some way or another. People will pay about $50 to go to Knott's Scary Farm or Halloween Horror Night at Universal Studies in order for people to scare them. But in order to keep people coming back each and every year, these theme parks have to keep making these events more and more extreme, year after year. The same thing can be said about horror movies. In order to keep people interested, they must be more and more extreme. Reality tv shows, such as Fear Factor have also become more extreme after several seasons, and the list could go on and on.
People will pay a decent amount of money to go bungee jumping or sky diving. Engaging in extreme sports is becoming more and more popular. Extreme sports are viewed, for the most part, as an acceptable way to engage in extreme activity, even though extreme sports pose a risk to the individual's engaging in the behavior. Extreme sports are an acceptable way of pushing one's body to the limit and seeing what one's body can do and not do. Every single year, people attempt to climb Mount Everest, knowing that they risk dying in pursuit of this goal. But those who die in pursuit of this goal are seen as courageous. Those who actually reach the top of Mount Everest are glorified. Extreme sports require rigid self-control, training, self-discipline especially in regards to ones body.
Anorexia and Bulimia. An individual's attempt at pushing their body to the limit. Rigid self-control and self-discipline to achieve their desired body image. But society pathologizes these individuals. Anorexia and bulimia are viewed as psychological problems even though society keeps pushing more and more extreme behavior. Anorexia and Bulimia do pose a risk to the individual engaging in the behavior, but so does extreme sports. People view anorexics and bulimics as "insane" because people wonder why anyone would risk their health and their life. But why are extreme sports viewed in a different light?
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