Not the cutting, or the puking, but the admiration is very hard to give up. It is a shadow in the back of many women’s minds, something I can certainly relate to. And it seems so real, to get so obsessed with losing weight. But the reader can only watch her slowly dying and laying her family to waste. Lia thinks she’s getting stronger, that being 95 pounds (43kgs) will make her perfect and beautiful. This is the story of Lia, a girl who loses her best friend Cassie, and who feels that her dead friend is compelling her to get thinner. Pinterest is trying to shut down pro-ana and pro-mia boards, ( Tumblr has made great progress in that regard) but I doubt they have the capacity to manage it.Īnd these boards and terrible online spaces appear in Wintergirls. Instagram and Pinterest, those rising superpowers, are the unofficial domain of only beautiful people and beautiful things. Body politics are becoming increasingly invasive and more powerful. Yes, I know, maybe it’s pretty stupid that teen girls starve themselves to death, but Jesus Christ, we have toddlers going on diets. A long-standing and increasingly desperate problem is that of anorexia. And while there are benefits to social media, it admittedly comes with its own set of problems that we’re struggling to solve.īut I digress (mildly). Even though Google has been ordered to help people be forgotten, there is a very real possibility that a stupid night out can now follow a person around for a long, long time. Not just in pervasive cyberbullying, but in the very permanent nature of our mistakes now. I think it is an increasingly important genre as teens are increasingly overwhelmed by issues that weren’t even thought of ten years ago. I generally have a soft spot for issues-driven teen fiction.
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