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Comment on Skewed Body Image by Ekim

Ekim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000

Over here, the press has a roughly 3:1 ratio of how terrible it is that children are getting fatter year on year and how too many of our children are anorexic. They don’t seem to figure that if you stop telling children they’re fat then fewer of them will be anorexics…

Comment on Skewed Body Image by John

John — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:29:47 +0000

Those shows are pure prattle designed to lure women into listening just long enough to run the corporate scams designed to render them even poorer, sicker and unhappier than they were before they tuned in. Women are victims of their innate need for constant socializing, preferring the obnoxious ‘friend,’ vicariously in this setting, to being alone. Every segment has been vetted by resident psychologists to maximize affinity fraud, hence the endless recycling of pieces on food, kids, doctors, shopping, celebrities and any other obsession to reel in the gullible.

Something I find remarkable is the passivity with which so many accept the on-air personalities’ big sister act; the clever and sophisticated friend from high school who went on to Stanford and now makes millions, but who, nonetheless, takes time out from her glamorous life to visit a while with the little people. Probably the same reason women don’t yell at the tv.

As to the question of why American fatness is hidden in plain sight, it’s simply a matter of maintaining consumer momentum. An uncomfortable reality defeats the buying impulse. People need to be happy to blow cash. Sad people buy fatty foods and not much else. (By the way, on NPR today, that endless canard about 25% of American children going to bed hungry every night, was playing like some 40 year old ‘classic rock’ hit that never goes away. You just know those people have never ventured so much as five feet into the real world).

Comment on Skewed Body Image by Orb

Orb — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:29:17 +0000

I do try not to pay any attention at all to the stupid health bits on my local news. They are always fluffy and dumb, and sometimes they are just flat out inaccurate … like the one the week I fell and busted my elbow when they had a bit about busted elbows. I’d already read up on the subject, so when the actual doctor they were talking to got the difference between tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow completely backwards and wrong, I knew I never needed to listen to the stupid health bits again.

And I’d always noticed and know that women’s bodies are always to be seen as being slender and fit no matter WHAT, but since I’ve been clothes shopping more than usual lately (and looking at fashion magazines) it’s really, really been annoying me lately.

Also annoying is that according to the retail fashion world, there are no adult women my size who would want to wear adult or professional clothing, and heaven knows teenagers have bad taste in fashion. I am sick to death of wearing girls and juniors clothing.

Comment on Skewed Body Image by Ekim

Ekim — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:06:19 +0000

There are two issues here, the first is that the presenters of any program on health inevitably don’t know what they’re talking about and are merely parroting what a multiply-edited text is telling them, with the text having been edited by a sequence of different people who didn’t understand it either.

The other issue is the idea that an easy-to-photograph woman is better in every respect. Not unless you’re in the media they’re not.

Comment on Me Today by Anton

Anton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:03:31 +0000

I like it, actually. It has something retro about it.

Comment on Two by Orb

Orb — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:25:09 +0000

It ony makes me want to paint with real paint more! LOL! It’s sort of like a sketchbook for paint where I can try out ideas, compositions, and colors, without wasting expensive paint or having to re-prep a canvas when I don’t like the way it turned out. This weekend, I’m going to try recreating one of these painted sketches onto canvas, and we’ll see how that goes! I’m caustiousy optimistic.

And I’ll check the link back over at LJ. I did upgrade all my WordPress stuff recently, and it’s possible there’s a problem on my end. Thanks for letting me know about it!

Comment on Two by Jen

Jen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:45:32 +0000

I like this. I like the color blending, and the feeling that they’re tied together.

Do you think that because it feels like painting it might keep you from doing a “real” painting?

ps: The LJ crosspost screws up the link back. It comes through as http://jenbooks.livejournal.com/“http://justorb.com/” – it’s probably LJ’s fault, but there may be a work-around. Or, it might be chrome. I haven’t used firefox lately.

Comment on Dear Governor Perry, by TheComedyCouple

TheComedyCouple — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:41:06 +0000

Here’s Rick Perry’s follow up to his anti-gay ad.

http://thecomedycouple.com/2011/12/08/rick-perry-jacket-strong-parody-3/

Comment on In Knots by Jocko

Jocko — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:05:08 +0000

The Greeks Gordian Knot has nothing on your knot!

Comment on Dear Governor Perry, by Jocko

Jocko — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:02:20 +0000

“AP reports his administration wants to make foreign aid decisions based on gay rights.”

Just think of the billions of $$$ the US could save if they actually stopped giving foreign aid $$$ to such countries. But this is just another bone Obama is holding-out for the LGBT groups. Do you think Obama will stop giving foreign aid to countries like Egypt? This will never happen, just more happy talk brought to you by the same person who promised the world Gitmo would be closed in 1 year.