Anybody been there? It's bizzare, and frighteningly addictive. And the title's apt, it's a social experiment that should be looked at closely. (http://beta.grouphug.us/random)
I think I have a problem. Yesterday I had to eat dinner at my sisters house, but I havnt [sic] been eating. I am trying to lose weight. When she left the table for a moment I stuffed the food into a napkin. I was afraid to throw it in the trash because I thought she might find it. I stuffed it all in my bra and it wasn’t noticible [sic] because I had a big sweatshirt on. I had to stay there another hour with food stuffed into my bra and I was afraid I smelled. I’m truly pathetic.
Egad. These, I suppose, are the new sites of cultural resistance, the new areas of discourse. Take, for example, the topic of eating disorders. Not only do we have a (relatively) new way of communicating with each other in GroupHug, we have an expanded discourse on an old topic like anorexia. Does this remind anyone of sexuality and Foucault? It likely should.
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Well, I've never been to those groups but they are popular over here in a cultish way. I wouldn't call it cultural resistance, but more like dysfunction/mutation of individuals in a way too complicated social mechanism.
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