Kitten versus Predator

Mar 09, 2009 21:40

Sometimes I get magazines at the library because I like to look at the pictures on the subway ride home after my brain is too tired to focus on words. But I am seriously considering writing Teen Vogue a mean letter about how cruel they are to always feature such skinny models. Teenage girls are too insecure to be bombarded with pictures of anorexic girls in oversized, baggy clothes (who really thinks that looks good???). It's okay to put that kind of stuff in Adult Vogue also known as regular Vogue, because by the time you're an adult girl you've likely reached a higher level of self-confidence. Or at least you've reached a point where you've given up on caring that much and have learned to accept that your thighs are and always will be smooshy. Plus as a grown person, you have learned the undeniable truth that being skinny isn't really attractive, and that everyone likes a little junk in the trunk. You never see construction workers hollering at the preying mantis girls... and isn't everyone's goal to be hollered at by a construction worker at least once? Exactly.

Anyway, I just think Teen Vogue should know better. It's not really en vogue to be skinny anymore anyway. I thought the cool thing was celebrating lushness, no? Not the drunken kind... the female kind. Although I personally celebrate the drunken kind as well.

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I had this idea over the weekend that I wanted to adopt a kitten. There's always this lady in Union Square who rescues kittens from trash cans and from being incinerated, and those poor, pathetic, scraggly creatures are really popular with the crowds. I want one so bad. This doesn't work out for me because I already have 2 rabbits who probably wouldn't like to play with a predator. I'm also allergic to cats and probably don't have time to care for one.

But when those kittens get incinerated, I will feel really bad.

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The weather was so nice this weekend that I didn't get the laundry done. And then daylight savings time happened and took away all the happiness that this weekend hath brought.

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