AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

[conuly]

I'm flipping through the channels, trying to get to the news, and this comes on the TV:

Woman: -feel better about my body than I have in years! In just six weeks using this plan, I went from a size 10 to a size 4!

It was a real ad, not a joke.

God, just shoot me now.

*feels good about her body despite being a size... what, 14? 16? large 12? Who the hell knows?*

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I think I'm a size 10. I don't think it's possible for me to get smaller... that's based on my hip size. My hip bones jut out already, there's no particular fat over them. If I wanted to be a smaller size, I'd have to cut bone off.

[conuly]

But you should want to, clearly.

[leora.livejournal.com]

Oh yes.

With only one application of Mr. Sharpy's patented Bone Cutter I managed to go from a size 10 to a size 6!

I've never felt better about my body or so lightheaded... It hurts a little at first, but no pain no gain. And beauty is worth some suffering. I can't wait to do the other side once I heal enough and replace the blood loss so I have enough strength to do the other side too! Then I'll finally be a size 4.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I saw that. I'd kill to be a size 10. Oh, not anyone good...but I'd kill someone evil.. okay...I'd maim someone evil to be a size 10!

[conuly]

*sighs*

Sometimes I really hate society.

[leora.livejournal.com]

At least that wasn't real.

I hope.

[conuly]

I wish I loved the human race
I wish I loved its silly face
I wish I loved the way it walks
I wish I loved the way it talks
And, when introduced to one
I wish I thought "What jolly fun!"

[phoenix-blue.livejournal.com]

My wife, aka the sexiest woman alive, is also about a 14.

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

*lets icon speak for self*

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what size I am (in context with that article), becuase I'm pretty sure juniors sizes are different than adult sizes.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Depends on the person, of course. I'd love to be 10, I wish I could be 4 again but don't see that happening, but 8, that would be sweet.

Once I lose my weight I am going to need that stupid apron surgery though, which is supposed to be awful. I need it ALREADY but you can't really do that until you are done losing.

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

I hate that ad. I had to google her to figure out how exactly she got to be a "reality TV star". I also hate the fact that it also includes the phrase "it works that good!"

I do sort of like the idea of people delivering prepackaged food to me on a regular basis... but it's a lot more expensive than the grocery store. Yeah, I checked.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Those sizes are so damn arbitrary too. That's why I like men's pants-- I'm a 29 in one company, and all the other companies too.

Women's? Pfft. Who knows.

[griphus.livejournal.com]

...and all it took was a steady diet of methamphetamines!

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Dropping all those sizes sounds drastically unhealthy. Either you'd need a liposuction to do that, or you'd need to take some kind of heart-attack-inducing drug. And I bet a lot of people would find it physically impossible to go down to a size 4... it's one of the "tiny skinny chick" sizes. Yet another sign we live in a fat-phobic culture. *sigh*

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Size four? I hope the woman was shorter than I am. :-p

I don't like my body at the size it's at -- it's clumsier, tires out faster, overheats more easily, etc. I'm not physically comfortable unless I'm a size 6, which is just about where I belong. :-p

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

Shit like that makes my IQ audibly drop. Didn't I read somewhere that a 12 is pretty much the average size?

Makes me want that "fuck your fascist beauty standards" t-shirt I saw once!

[peaseblossom03.livejournal.com]

And yet, if a woman actually is thin, the tabloids go nuts about how she must have an eating disorder.

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Celebrity women just can't win with the tabloids. If they're too thin (they're always starving themselves for the sake of their career) they get called anorexic. If they have the slightest ripple of cellulite, then The Enquirer publishes "shockers" with paparazzi pictures of them in their swimsuits raving about "OMG! JENNIFER ANISTON HAS THIGH FAT!!!" So they starve themselves again... being a movie star must be one of the most stressful things ever. No wonder they can't stay married for more than two weeks.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

yeah, they tend to be cut differently, and often juniors runs 3, 5, 7, etc. while women's runs even numbers.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

God, what I would do to get Women's pants done like Men's pants.

Kill things. cute things. melt My Little Ponies, even.

[conuly]

14.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. The pants I buy are sized in even numbers, but they come from a section marked 'Juniors.'
So is a 4 in womens basically the same as a 5 in juniors? I always thought that there was some bit of staggering.

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

well, most Juniors sections I've been in run odd numbers (however Old Navy runs juniors as evens). a 4 and 5 may be similiar sized, but may be cut differently - like one may have extra room in the hips, or lower on the waist, etc. that may affect the fit.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

It's Old Navy where I get my jeans actually, so that would explain that. Hah.

My mom has suggested that I buy women's jeans for the extra hip room, but I can't stand jeans that come up above a certain point. They are just not comfortable at all. Aside from the fact that I end up seeing a lot of other people's butt cracks, this 'low cut revolution' has worked out for me.

I don't understand how so many girls have their butts hanging out so much. I buy Old Navy's super low-cuts and even when I sit, nothing more than my lower back shows. Maybe I'm just built 'weird.'