Blaming the victim is a very odd stance. Clearly women have been objectified since the dawn of time and it is a fact. |
I have to say, the twenty foot tall Donna Karan ad at Tyson’s has me enthralled. The perfect hair, the immaculate French cuffs. If only they made crisp white button downs for a 36H rack 😭 |
There’s no victim. Just a deeply insecure woman who needs therapy. |
I know DCUM loves to prescribe therapy for everything but I think seeking a therapist for a deflating shopping experience might be a bit much. Are there therapists who specialize in people who say "you need therapy" anytime anyone expresses a negative emotion? There should be. |
Someone proclaiming they need to stick to online shopping because their ego can’t take seeing a model is very much a good candidate for therapy. Having that fragile of an ego isn’t healthy. Therapy is also really helpful for people like you PP that are so overly defensive at the suggestion of therapy. You’re not the OP, right? But yet you’re so offended because…a nerve was struck? |
I don’t recall Cathy punching down when someone else selected a frumpier bathing suit. |
+a million. |
Her ego cannot handle looking at billboards of models? That (not therapy) sounds over the top. |
Agreed. I have never, and will never be, a model size. I can't imagine being a grown adult and having your ego so badly damaged because you don't look like a model that you refuse to shop in stores. |
Just have a sense of humor. My friend and I went shopping to Tysons after having a drink. We stopped at Aritzia and she asked me if this was a children section, because everything was so tiny there. I am 50 y.o. and fit, 120 lb. While we were discussing this, there were an anorexic model looking at us from the huge tv screen on the wall. We just cannot stop laughing at it. And I love Aritzia and shop there a lot. |
Wright? OP clearly was shopping in suburban american mall. |
I went to Madewell to spend my Insider Birthday Bucks and there were zero t-shirts that weren't cropped. Madewell?!? |
LOL - check back when you get to your 50s |
My mom is 70 and is a size 2 - still at the same weight she was in high school. I seem to take after her pretty strongly looks wise so I think I’ll still be feeling pretty good at 50. |
The lighting and mirrors in most fitting rooms is enough to make me NEVER shop at malls. Why on earth do they want to make me look that haggard when I'm trying on the clothes they are trying to sell me? I don't get it. |