2013-05-07

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2013-05-07 06:33 pm

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!
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2013-05-07 06:38 pm

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.