And, above all else, I get that it's a *commercial* -- their goal is to make $$$$, and if they can make women think that they, too, can be a size 2, then that's what they're going to trumpet in their commercial, even if it isn't a realistic or achievable or sustainable OR healthy goal for the majority of women.
Also, the size mentioned in the commercial needs to be smaller than the vast majority of viewers in order to get people thinking "Wow, I'd better lose weight!" instead of "Yay, the teevee thinks I'm thin!"
I have the wee bones, which is why I think my sister looks so damned skinny at something just shy of my pre-kettlebell weight. She's got the big bones.
Okay, so damned skinny is an exaggeration--it's lean, and it's quite an athletic looking lean, but it's weird to think that at about that height and weight I merely looked slim.
Now, as far as I can tell, I look...okay, I have no idea.
Oooh, 5-7-9. Mall stores are ridic. Every time I pass American Apparel stores I think of the store "Units"-- does anyone else remember this? It was all knit coordinates, like knit jumpsuits with knit belts.
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
"Units"-- does anyone else remember this? It was all knit coordinates, like knit jumpsuits with knit belts.
My junior and senior year in marching band, this is where our flag corps uniforms came from.
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
So their employees can get together behind the stores and laugh?
My junior high all-girls chorus got their uniforms from Units. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that remembers this store!
What I want to know is why the Jenny Craig/LA Weight Loss Center/Weight Watchers in strip malls are always located next to the Cold Stone Creamery/Ben & Jerry's?
To enable the vicious cycle that keeps you coming back to both of them forever.
Who, me, paranoid?
I'm okay with her feeling fat at whatever size she is, but I don't like her insipid giggling and crowing over fitting into a size 2. Because it reinforces the message that size 2 should be The Goal for women.
The goal should be the weight at which you're healthy and comfortable. And, again, if Joe Millionaire-ette wasn't healthy or comfortable at a size 10, if a size 2 is the size where she landed to be healthy and comfortable, then more power to her.
And, above all else, I get that it's a *commercial* -- their goal is to make $$$$, and if they can make women think that they, too, can be a size 2, then that's what they're going to trumpet in their commercial, even if it isn't a realistic or achievable or sustainable OR healthy goal for the majority of women.
I could hug you right now. Well said.
Oh gods, Units. Yes I remember that store. I had one of the thingys that could be a belt or a skirt or a halter top. In navy blue.
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