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Mall Adventures

Of course I am working today, and the thrilling chilling peeps at the mall do not fail to amuse. A couple of high school kids informed me that we are "fuckin' stupid" for not carrying 8-mile.

Then some old guy came over to buy a ticket to Real Women Have Curves. He asks for it, then says "is it true" I smile at him in a customer servicey way and say "I guess so". So he says "turn around."
I'll be honest, this surpirsed me, and I asked him again how many tickets he'd like. And he says, "C'mon, give an old man a thrill."
I contemplate asking for his credit card number, but I don't. No cc, no thrill.

Sorry, old guy.

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Let me just state that I hate that movie's name. With a passion. =)

How come?

No curves have ye?

You're still a real woman, honest.

Oh, I'm just a raging feminazi ;-) and that whole woman = curves thing annoys the hell outta me. But yeah, I am waify and petite. Tiny tits but my ass is... well, it's not so small.

I'm sure you understand though, that heavy women have been treated as virtual non-entities for the past 200 years in this country. They are the only group that it is still politically okay to mock and ridicule.

Being tiny goes in and out of fashion. Being large is never in for women. Men who bare their big fat hairy bellies at the beach evn make fun of fat chicks. its a hard way to go...this is why we learn to appreciate our own curviness so we need not wallow in shame.

And if by feminist, you mean that women should be treated with the same basic respect as men, then of course most of us are feminists too. The whole feminazi thing is a man-made word that attempts to make us feel guilty for wanting fair treatment. I hate it!

It is still politically okay to make fun of the Amish, because they will never know.

There is also less of a stigma about joking at the expense of Canadians -- because there is so little to make fun of -- and midgets.

Granted, though, there are no T-shirts that say "No Amish!" or "No Canadians!" or "No midgets!"

Wow, I'm glad I'm not a fat, Canadian, Amish midget. I'd have no self-esteeme at all...

I forgot about nerds! Despite geek-chic fashion, true nerds are still ridiculed with ferocity, due to their inability to fight back.

And how on Earth would you know that?

You're like, the astrological polarity of a nerd...except for the cuddlyness...or so I imagine.

Oh, dear, no -- I was the poster child for nerds in my hometown, thanks to my appearance in the national spelling bee (and, as a result, on the front page of several local newspapers).

That is soo HOT!

Oh wait. What I meant was..that must have been terrible as a kid. Your folks must have been so roud. Did they tell all of their friends. But I bet you could totally score with that story if you told it right.

It's so cute.

I think you are the first person ever to say that was hot. You must, on some unconscious level, be aware that of the 200-some entrants, I was the one chosen to wear #69 around my neck. I shit you not.

That is Goddamn hilarious.

Yeah, I know what you're saying. But here the vast majority of women are more or less overweight and women's magazines have for years been very much about how big is beautiful. There are even beauty contests for large women now, lines of clothing, lots of stuff. It's gone far enough that doctors have expressed concern in the media.

I've always gotten a lot of shit for my weight but during this new rise of large women it's become considerably worse. Everyone acknowledges it rude and wrong to say "Gross! You're so fat." but for some reason people see nothing wrong in saying that to a skinny woman. It's pretty outrageous by now. People comment on my eating and accuse me (and my skinny friend) of being anorexic. My friend has even been called into the supervisor's office at her work place because "her anorexia is bad for the work environment" once. Neither of us has ever had any sort of eating disorder.

Real women have curves and real women = overweight women is just the attitude that has put us underweight women into this position where we feel like criminals for looking the way we look. Some people find it impossible to understand that we don't necessarily want to be calista flockhart skinny either and can't help it. Nor do we promote dieting. What I find impossible to understand personally is why on earth do people have to concentrate on other people's weight. To me that is so very irrelevant.

Beauty is not about weight or size to me. Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. There is no such thing as one "real" body image. That is the idea I'd like to promote if any.

Wow! You know I've never really thought it that far thru. Thank you for maiking those points, because they are indeed valid ones that many of us miss.

Women need to band together to promote all types of beauty, and not separate skinny chicks from heavy chicks. You are so right!

Thanks, man!

I'm all ready to change the world. Let's rock. ;-)

I'm wit'cha!!!

I'd like to apologize on behalf of my gender. Some guys never learn tact.

Yes, I'm sure you would have asked to see my "curves" much more tactfully...

Seriously, apology accepted, I hereby forgive all men for past wrongdoings.

Hey! That felt pretty good.

I'm free! Free!

You have to hand it to sleazy old dudes -- they know they have a better chance of pity working for them than anything else.

I wonder if the movie was what he thought it was going to be.

Nope, he complained.

The movie is about women tired of being called fat by their mothers... and the statement this girl in the movie is saying is that every human body is beautiful in its own way, and i should no longer be ashamed of my body.

So there is NO reason to get upset about this title.

I guess it all depends upon ones viewpoint.

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I knew you'd slip up sooner or later!

Giving poor old men thrills

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