Comments on: When Eating Disorders Go Digital

By: Pony

Pony — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:51:21 +0000

Maggie thanks for that. Now I have to slurp coffee outta my keyboard.

By: Buttercup

Buttercup — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:29:03 +0000

Ron Sullivan, I know a guy who has one of those shirts, and he wears it quite frequently. He also has one of a muscular male physique. equal opportunity objectifying, yanno.

By: maggiethewolf

maggiethewolf — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:00:17 +0000

I don’t wear push-up bras (or bras) because I never want to be accused of false advertising. Same with this digital thinning device. I’d send someone a thin pic and show up fat and how would I explain that?

By: Mar Iguana

Mar Iguana — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:16:57 +0000

So, if you keep your finger down on the button does the subjectâ€™s image eventually shrink into nothingness? And is this better or worse than a properly thin woman, according to the Patriarchy?

Worse. Just yet. They haven’t quite worked out a couple little kinks yet so they’re not ready to get rid of us entirely. Little snags such as gestation, even though doctors say they can make the boys into women, they haven’t figured out how to make a womb. But, I just know they’re working on it.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:38:55 +0000

I watched the demo on the HP website, and it does look like you can make yourself wider as well as narrower: when the demo shows you the slimming effect option on the camera, there’s plus and minus bar to the side of the picture where the photographer can “adjust” the width of the victim- that is, the subject. Truly, you can be narrowed into nothingness, or widened to fill the room.

By: sockpuppet

sockpuppet — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:14:02 +0000

Women who diet at my age end up looking like dessicated chickens. I’d rather be a plump and juicy bird myself.

By: Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat? at I Blame The Patriarchy

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat? at I Blame The Patriarchy — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:59:58 +0000

[…] Blamer Phemisaurus gets the picture. […]

By: Edith

Edith — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:02:12 +0000

Twisty, I still love you and all, but really, Phemisaurus … you are my e-crush.

By: Ephiny

Ephiny — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:01:55 +0000

I hate the implicit suggestion that the woman in the picture *needed* to be ’slimmed’. What exactly was wrong with the way she looked in the original photo? She looks a perfectly normal size, in fact rather slimmer than average if anything.

By: justtesting

justtesting — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:01:20 +0000

if only we could get through to the approximately 120,000,000 women and girls out there who still struggle with this crap.

or approximately 3 billion maybe ?