Advertising placement 101

"There's what you say you want... then there's what you really want" is not a good advertising tagline in general -- at least not for Slimfast, which I cannot conceive of as what anyone "really" wants in any possible universe...

But you know where it really doesn't belong?

Right in front of an article about rape.

Thanks, Cosmo!

The miraculous ever-receding goalposts

( Some discussion of rhetoric around weight loss/ dieting behavior )

Now that I think about it, Eleanor & Park is one of the only YA books I've read in which being fat is not a symptom of people with terrible emotional problems doing a lot of emotional eating. Who is not getting enough to eat, and this is recognized as part of her abusive family life, not a noble character-building thing.