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Twiggyish

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll be posting my thoughts in here later.

Azriel

Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I made myself pick the book back up yesterday and I got through to Chapter 20. I still don't like Katie or the book.

There was one part that just really disgusted me :
Carol Dunstan is clearly a major beneficiary of Workplace Diversity, Fattist Section. The walk from the lobby had made her breathless; just looking at her is to wonder what manner of distress it is that requires so much comfort eating.
Does the author think this is funny? It really ticks me off.

More thoughts on this later.

Hermione69

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 7:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Azriel, I agree with you. I didn't find that funny either. It made me think that not only has the author never struggled with her weight, but she has no idea what it is like for anyone who has.

For the most part, I enjoyed the little nuggets of humor imbedded in the book, but I remember that passage vividly and I thought it was mean.

Azriel

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 12:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This really got to me because I have noticed so much lately that our society has started to measure a person's worth by their weight. I'm really getting disgusted with this outlook. Kate made an assessment of this woman's whole emotional well being just by her weight.

Considering Kate's designer conscious mind, I wonder how big was this woman? Yes, I know this was just one passage in a book of fiction but it's just becoming such a prevailing attitude.

Take a look at any hit show. Look at the first season episodes of Friends or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, really...pick any major hit and then watch through as the seasons progress and the main female characters shrink! These women were just as beautiful and in most cases more beautiful to me before they started shrinking. I'm sick of seeing so many boney stick thin women on TV.

I really don't think this is how these women choose to look, they just feel pressured by our society to keep exercising and dieting beyond the normal limits. To stay on top you have to be thinner and thinner and thinner! I have nothing against someone who wants to exercise for their fitness or health, but come on thinner is not necessarily always more healthy or more beautiful.