Yay Toddson with the low blood pressure! Well done.

Monkey stencil border Whoops, can't link to the specific page, but if you search for "monkey" the relevant stencils will come up.

Thank you all. Now the doctor's told me to work on getting my weight down. (I know I'm getting old - he looked about 14.)

RAGE:

Salon has an article on their front page about Hot Topic [link] where they seem to feel the need to consider the question of whether making non-fugly large clothing encourages obesity.

Lawrence Miller, a clinical health psychologist with the Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Management (NEW) Kids Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, says that feeling attractive in clothes could decrease a teen's motivation to lose weight -- though only insofar as "feeling attractive" is her or his main goal.

Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?

Pink, and pretty pillows? Yes. Beads, ehhh...I don't know. For a baby? Granted, she can't get at much now, but that will soon change.

Penelope Cruz arrived with a CAMEL. He was very cute.

Not only that, they had a picture in the Boston Globe of it nuzzling her cheek. Not a big PC fan, but it was almost lethally cute.

Oh my, big fucking smack with a large cluestick for Lawrence Miller.

Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?

I read something elsewhere, and I can't attest to its accuracy, because it was elsewhere. During the Schiavo case, someone linked to an op-ed piece which took the position that Terri Schiavo was going to die, because she'd been a fat kid.

In the op-ed piece, it stated that the way children's weight is considered/analyzed, how they define overweight children is those children in the top 15 percent for body mass--in other words, 15% of kids are always considered fat, because it's a self-defining statistic. Is there any truth to that?

Brenda, the amount of rage I'm seeing about that stupid article is making me happy.

Aimee, go Paris, choose Paris!

Yes, clearly, the best option is to shame large kids and teens into conforming. In fact, lets do away with clothes for fat people all together - it just helps them pretend to fit in. That would be hard on the thin folk, though - maybe some burlap bags would do the trick?

Lordy. And also, the rest of the culture is so accepting and encouraging of fatness that the only way overweight people could ever feel less than nurtured and feted is if there aren't any pretty clothes.

Yuh huh.

There was an article in Self* last month by a formerly overweight woman waxing lyrical about how she used to have fabulous self-esteem and thought she looked great, but then she discovered self-loathing, and finally managed to lose weight. She now feels crappy about her self-image, but she's down a jeans size! Yay! It was beyond sickening.

*My gym has copies lying around