Slogan t-shirts

[bumblebee]

This guy I met the other day was wearing a t shirt that said 'BULIMIA - twice the taste, zero calories' on it. I'm not bulimic, I'm diagnosed ana and have never thrown up, yet I still felt incredibly offended.
Any thoughts?
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[Moghdien21]

Wow, yeah. That is pretty offensive. Just like those pictures of obese people with t-shirts that say "I beat anorexia." I get the joke, but as someone with an eating disorder I find it far from funny.

[needtodothis]

I don't find them funny at all.
Eating disorders aren't something to be made fun of.
I find it also enforces the image as eating disorders as a 'vanity disease', which it certainly isn't.
But the people that made them and those who wear them do not understand eating disorders and probably don't realise the offence they cause to anyone who has an ed.

[Jacklinger]

Was they guy who wore the shirt very thin? Possibly he was bullimic and wearing that shirt is a coping mechanism?

I know I would wear shirts about depression if I could freakin fit into them. I want a gray shirt with a yellow happy face on it behind a red circle with a line through it. hehe

[dragonfly]

I'm not sure that any bullimic would wear a t-shirt that was that offensive to people with eating disorders. I definitely wouldn't. Maybe something less offensive?, i don't know

[bumblebee]

Was they guy who wore the shirt very thin? Possibly he was bullimic and wearing that shirt is a coping mechanism?

I know I would wear shirts about depression if I could freakin fit into them. I want a gray shirt with a yellow happy face on it behind a red circle with a line through it. hehe

No, he was average sized, though I think (i could be wrong) that many bulimics are 'healthy' weight.
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[pixie19eyre]

eeeeTo view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.! that is a sick shirt (no pun intended). Like, i don't even think that to myself. what an asshole.

[bellefolie]

there's loads of shirts like that if you sarch for the words
eating disorder,anorexia,bulimia
on sites like cafepress

and I agree about people joking about eating disorders it pisses me off
like just today I was reading my facebook page and one of the girls I used to go to school was talking about going on a diet
and then it somehow turned to them jokeing about Bulimia

this was all whilst I was stuffing my face with chocolate (fuck abc cba with it)
and about to go purging,I felt wonderful/

[anonomousmia]

I do get slightly offended by things like that. Even things I wouldn't of before. . .like you know in Pink's music video to 'Stupid Girls' and she's in the toilets with a couple of mates and she says something like...

'omg, I totally had more than 500 calories already today' . . . .and then uses the toothbrush to make her throw up. Because its not like that. I don't go purging with a friend. Nor do I purge on 500cals. Maybe she was talking about wanna's, but it's not 100% clear and I just didn't like it.

Also a couple other of bulimic jokes or ana jokes have popped up on tv programms, which I like, but now I'm like hmm, that actually isn't funny?? And I look at other jokes the same way now, jokes about disabled people (mentally and phsyically), jokes about illnesses/diseases, I don't know its hard to explain. xx