Comments on: Why we are so demented?

By: Danni

Danni — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:16:36 +0000

This kills me. Women are encouraged to judge ourselves by the standards of others, as opposed to having our own standards based on our own values. It pushes the idea that how you feel about you is irrelevant, all that’s important is how others see you.
And it reminds me of how easy it is to go from ‘happy as long as I’m not the fattest girl in the room’ to ‘only happy if I’m the thinnest girl in the room’. And how flawed both ideas are.
That plaque is truly obnoxious.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:29:03 +0000

I have this on my myspace page, nice and big. Sorry for those that disagree. But unless you are 408 lbs, you will never know what it’s like to be the fattest person in the room, not able to wear a seatbelt cause it doesn’t fit, having a hard time wiping in bathroom stalls cause of the limited space (cheering when the handicap stall is available), not fitting in a chair at a theater, restaurant, other public place, actually breaking a chair at a restaurant in front of everyone and struggling to get up as everyone stares. Until you have gone thru all that, you do not get what it is like and why every night you pray to be thin and if you can’t be like that, then please, make others suffer with me so I am not so alone!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:23:28 +0000

You know, instead of just talking about it, what about organising a mass e-mail thing? Compose a simple email that people can copy and change themselves, and send it to Target. Spread the word to other blogs who will surely agree and join in. This is a horrible thing to sell. No one will ever in their right mind create a plaque this the likeness of this which mentions skin colour, race, disability or illness, why this?