![]() ![]() “Ugh, how tragic I am when I can’t let anyone know how I really feel.” It promotes self-pity and staying in the victim mentality. The mentality here is “suffer as long as you can, because it’s ‘beautiful’.”Īside from being totally cliche and relatable by almost everyone, like the earlier gif of “It’s like nobody’s fucking business,” this gif glorifies self-denial and romanticizes staying sick. It glorifies drug use in order to be happy.Īgain, not directly promoting eating disorders or other mental health issues, but because people already look up to Cassie, her low self-esteem and self-loathing are seen as something romantic and tragic. This directly glorifies taking drugs to self-medicate, whether prescribed or non-prescribed. I also want to interject here that her smug face encourages people to hide their issues, also minimizing mental health by making it seem like it’s “not that big of a deal.” Not that personal mental health issues are everyone’s business, but again, the way she says it further encourages denial of one’s own issues. Probably one of the most contradictory gifs given that most pro-anas thrive on attention by posting about their “eating disorders” on a public blogging site. Not directly promoting eating disorders, but the fact that Cassie is a character that the pro-ana community already idolizes, if people feel like they can relate to Cassie’s low self-esteem, they will also feel like they can go to the lengths she does to become thin.Įxhibit C: “It’s like, nobody’s fucking business.” Cassie directly relates starving to something positive, saying that she didn’t eat so she could be "lovely.” This further pushes the myth that people have eating disorders so they can be pretty, when in reality, most do not have actual eating disorders to be pretty, nor do eating disorders make you pretty. One of the most reblogged gifs on Tumblr, the glorification of this obvious. Many people who either suffer from mental health issues or think they suffer from mental health issues will post these gifs because they feel they “relate” the either the character or the gif, but realistically, these gifs do, to some extent, glorify eating disorders and other mental illnesses.Įxhibit A: “I didn’t eat for three days so I could be lovely.“ So if you’ve ever tread the eating disorder tags or pro-eating disorder tags, chances are, you’ve seen at least one gif of Cassie, an eating disordered character on the show Skins. ![]() Why Cassie Gifs Glorify Eating Disorders and Other Mental Illnesses ![]()
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