"You Think I'm Pretty Without Any Make-up On..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Soooo at my one client's house the t.v. was on, and there was an ad going for some weight-loss programme. It started out fairly inoffensively: middle-aged, stocky woman going "yay now I am not quite as heavy I can do more!" which is a reasonable approach, really; and the fact that she wasn't skinny made it seem much more like a "I'm just wanting to be healthier, this isn't about the beauty standard" kind of thing. So far so good.

And then the last line of the commercial is her saying "Thank you [name of product] for letting me be pretty one last time".

What. the actual fuck.

So yeah, I thought you all might like to know what's wrong with the world.

Comments

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

I saw that commercial about five times in three hours of TV-watching yesterday, and was also furious at the bit about "I can wear colors again! I don't have to wear black all the time!"

FAT PEOPLE CAN WEAR COLORS TOO, I PROMISE. THERE IS NOT A LAW.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. I was like, SO SORRY, T.V. PEOPLE, I am fat and I wear ALL THE PRETTY COLOURS I WANT. SO THERE. Arghhhh.

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

but don't you know fat people are supposed to make themselves as near to invisible as possible, UGH SOUJIN WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT VERY GOOD AT BEING FAT, CLEARLY.