Starvation on the Web

摘要

Click on "disclaimer" on the web-site ceruleanbutterfly.com, and instead of the standard fine-print legalese, you get a rant. "If you don't have an eating disorder," it says at one point, "I wonder what the bloody hell you're doing here. If you've come to yell at us, please realize that it's pointless—we're going to ignore your point of view just as you ignore ours." The creator of Cerulean Butterfly—one of some 500 websites that deal frankly and sometimes approvingly with anorexia and other eating disorders—is an intelligent, articulate 19-year-old San Francisco college student who asked to,, be called only Lizzy.