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In todays companionship men have an attractiontowards sputterny women. The most gorgeous superior models are thin and when other girlfriends lookat them, they get jealous. some(prenominal) an(prenominal) girls see this, andview themselves as being over mattert and have acomplex and a desire, which is to be skinny, thisdisease is called Anorexia. Anorexia is a disease,which affects mostly women and sometimesmen. Anorexia is when you think you are fat, andyou deprive yourself of food in order to beskinny. They see themselves as being fat andwant to strive to be better than the "norm", andby that, being as skinny as possible. Theglamorous women are skinny and we see this foreverywhere in movies, devise shows, television,magazines etc Lennard Davis describes normalcy as "Each ofus endeavors to be normal or else deliberatestries to avoid that state". (p47 Davis) We humansdo everything by compare, whether it becomparisons mingled with cars, weight, looks,money, a nd bewitching much anything else you canthink of. Mostly all us strive to be better than"normal". Anorexia is a disease, which existswhen a soulfulness has a goal, a goal to look betterthan anyone else does. Anorexia in itself is a disability because they areunable to function like a normal person should.Their bodies physically deteriorate and they havea complex that is often incurable. Anorexiaphysically ruins your skin because you are notconsuming any oils and the skin dries out. Withprolong Anorexia, females are prone to losingtheir ability to give birth because of malnutrition.mentally it kills you because all you think aboutis how you look, and looks arent that importantin comparison to your personality. It is called theincurable disease because once someone has thiscomplex they can neer really let they eat a fattyfood, or ever see them even a pound heavierthan they are. When my sister was Anorexic, herdoctor asked her, "What would you do if I forcedyou to eat a Burger King french barbarian?" Sheresponded "Id kill myself". At one point sheweighed 97 pounds, and was 5 feet 10 inchestall. My sister fortunately has technically beencured because she take normally but she stillwatches what she eats extremely carefully. "Any doorbell curve will al dashs have at its extremitiesthose characteristics that deviate from the norm.So, with the theory of the norm come... ...areover weight and starve themselves. Societycategorizes people in basically two groups, bewitchingand ugly. Although I do not deem with this, manypeople are rude to many people who are overweight. If you go to a school where the averagegirl weighs 160lbs and you weigh 140lbs youmay be placed in a category with the "pretty"group. On the other hand if the situation isreversed and the average girl weighs 115lbs, andyou weigh 120lbs you may be in the "ugly" groupwhich causes many people to become selfconscious and go anorexic. In my sisters scale sheused to hang out with a group of girls who werevery pretty and she had a complex and wanted tolook better than the rest of them. Her way wasstarvation, and once she got to her best lookingstage, the "ideal" point, she kept on sharp-setherself leading to detrimental consequences. Many people have many assorted ideas aboutanorexia and how it is trying to be more like the"norm" by removing a stigma of beingoverweight, like in my sisters case except shewas never really overweight. Ideology plays a bigrole in this as well because they never get to theirideal state create problems.