What is up with the mannequins in the window of a certain store? When I think of runners and yogis I think strong not emaciated. Don’t tell me skinny sells fashion, you can barely see what pants are on display when you look at them head on. —I Could Look Like a Pretzel if My Legs Were Noodles Too

This article appears in Mar 1-7, 2012.

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  1. …cue insipid Jefferson Starship tune as OP rides off into the sunset on a Vespa with a lump of plastic that doesn’t magically become that foul, diseased old fish-pig from Sex in the City.

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  3. save the dummies now, or maybe they are actually occupiers working, weird concept hey.

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  4. I always found club monaco’s size 0 waif manniquins the WORST. NaSty! They ain’t got nothin bigger than a 4 in their store. Go eat a big mac! FUck that looks sick.

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  7. they’re in kahoots with the diet industry OP. I swear to god they are.. And the diet industry sells you diet food that actually deprives you of basic nutrition while piling on the sugar and salt. Anyway, long story short, you get fatter eating diet food. It’s a neverending cycle of impossible. And for that reason it’s a billion dollar industry.

    I am not “pretend-skinny” in that i eat like a teenaged boy and don’t gain much weight. Most skinny people i know are pretend skinny meaning they have to work to maintain a figure that isn’t natural and you’re right… it’s nasty and trashy and i’ll never understand why you’d want to look like that if the other option is a jaw-dropping sexy figure. If everyone wore their natural figures, those skinny clothing stores would go out of business because there aren’t many adults who are naturally really thin. It’s unusual. It’s not normal.

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