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    "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
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    11/09/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    [www.youtube.com] #wateon
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    Image of RenoMartini RenoMartini
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    That woman is hot as hell and I covet her bathing suit. #wateon
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    11/09/09

    @RenoMartini: but her shoes?! #wateon
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    11/09/09

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Horrible. Truly horrible. But I'll still give her a free pass. #wateon
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    I'm more interested in the bizarre torture sandals this Annette Funnicello look-alike is wearing. It looks like they stiched together some medical tape and a couple of pantyliners onto some heel-less stiletto soles. What the hell?

    Oh, and as for the meat of the ad? Same bullshit, different era/body ideal. Imagine if all the women who bought this product had instead invested that money in Microsoft a few years later. Or, you know, invested it in a very good shrink. #wateon
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    Image of TurtleSpeak TurtleSpeak
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    *Sigh*...
    I wish women could learn to love themselves no matter what they looked like. I know I sound really trite and this is somewhat off topic but it's been getting me down lately (or, since I was old enough to know what a calorie was).
    Body shape/size just isn't that important in the real world. When I meet someone new, or hang out with my old friends, I never (literally, never) notice what their body looks like. I have no idea if any of my friends have big breasts/small breasts/big waists/small waists/big butts/small butts, etc, etc. I just do not notice. Unless they start complaining about their bodies and forcing me to comment on whether their ass is too jiggly or whatever. And even then I usually refuse to cooperate. Because it doesn't matter! No one cares what your body looks like! Unless they are incredibly superficial and shallow. In which case, they have serious issues of their own to deal with. #wateon
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    11/08/09

    @TurtleSpeak: Yup. You pretty much got my sentiment there. #wateon
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    Image of Mary Cullina Mary Cullina
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    I love that the first thing listed in the ad is "Homogenized Liquid Emulsions"....AKA Milk
    *headdesk* #wateon
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    Image of zu_zu zu_zu
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    This ad reminds me of my mom's story about growing up in the 1950s being really thin. People always asked my grandmother if my mom was ill.

    Worse yet was that her swimming class placed girls in suits color coded by their weight!

    The largest girls worse black suits, navy blue for the bigger girls, red for the ideals and chartreuse for the sickly looking ones. My mom was a chartreuse and said she always wanted to be a red suit. Kinda funny that the girl in the ad is a red suit.

    No matter what the era, we just can't win. #wateon
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    11/08/09

    @zu_zu: Colour coded swim suits? Ok that's so hilariously wrong.

    Did the boys wear colour coded swimsuits based on the size of their... ya'know... cuz that's a public service I can get behind. #wateon
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    11/08/09

    @TurtleSpeak: I know - and chartreuse of all things!

    That would be hysterical if the guys had to be color coded as well, hehe. But there was no co-mingling of the sexes in my mom's swim class. #wateon
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    Image of Grim Reaper of the Forest Grim Reaper of the Forest
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    She sort of looks like a toddler who got her hand stuck in her hair and is looking for help. Did that use to be a sexy pose? #wateon
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    Image of amsci amsci
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    Is this by the same makers as HeadOn?

    "WateOn, apply directly to the ass!" #wateon
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    Image of PoisonPixie PoisonPixie
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    I love seeing women who are healthy, not fat or skinny...they just look like women should look. Awesome. #wateon
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    11/08/09

    @PoisonPixie: Should is such a stupid word. #wateon
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    Image of tiredfairy tiredfairy
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    Personally, I think I should aim for a dodecahedron.

    Even when you take into consideration some variation is distribution, tiny waists have definitely been part of the beauty "ideal" for awhile now. Whether the ideal skews more curvy, or more slim, that seems to be the one constant for at least 100 years. It's almost like we expect the body to do "naturally" what used to be done via corset. #wateon
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    Image of miggery sow miggery sow
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    Barbie toe! #wateon
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    Image of Lady Saira, Vere de Vere Lady Saira, Vere de Vere
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    "WOMEN - GIRLS - MEN - BOYS - CONVALESCENTS"
    Um. #wateon
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    TurtleSpeak promoted this comment Lady Saira, Vere de Vere was starred Lady Saira, Vere de Vere was unstarred
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    11/08/09

    @Lady Saira, Vere de Vere: Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Hah. #wateon
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    Image of RustyHeadedGirl RustyHeadedGirl
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    You know, when I gain weight it doesn't all go to my hips and boobs, because if it did I'd be eating doritos until I looked like Christina Hendricks. Nope. When I gain weight, after about 5 pounds it starts to hit my stomach and I look pregnant.

    This sounds like just as much of a waste of money as the crazy diet pills of today do. #wateon
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    I would rather just rely on my old stand by, cheesy fries. When I get too un-shapey, donchaknow.
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    Image of anya629 anya629
    11/08/09

    @badmutha: Yes. If a person wants to gain weight, there are much tastier ways to do it. #wateon
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    Image of sarasasa sarasasa
    11/08/09

    In reply to "If You Want To Be Popular, You Can't Afford To Be Skinny."
    I envy the waists of the 50's and 60's. I know they were the result of high cut pants and girdles, but still. #wateon
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    Image of ExtensionOfBob ExtensionOfBob
    11/08/09

    @sarasasa: But sometimes I see those women in bikinis and they still look like that and I wonder why I have maybe seen only one other figure in recent times that look like those. #wateon
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    11/08/09

    @ExtensionOfBob: That's my body shape! You'd hardly ever be able to tell though, because the way clothes are cut today my pants are either sitting too low and squeezing my hips up to my waist or my dress is sinched under my boobs and ballooning out over my curves maternity style.
    The recent retro dress trend is improving my life greatly- thanks Mad Men! #wateon
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    Image of argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw? argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
    11/08/09

    @ExtensionOfBob: I read a while back (and I can't remember where, nor if this came from a reputable source, so take this with a grain of salt) that the 'true hourglass' body type (which is designated by hip to waist to bust ratios) is actually very rare. 'Pears' were said to be the most common, followed by 'apples'. This sort of leads me to believe that hourglass shapes have never been common, and that the representation of women's bodies from the media of yore is skewed to represent the ideal... How far we've come! (jokes) I wonder if people will look at our media images of women and make similar conclusions about how we looked, or if the images will be framed with a discussion of how overweight bodies were the norm in contrast to the extremely thin and toned 'ideal' bodies? It's interesting to think about.
    @colormeroutine: That's my body shape too! Sack dresses are the bane of my simultaneously busty and hippy existence... I feel like I'm wearing a tent. Being short certainly doesn't help. #wateon
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