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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weird post. I have noticed a dramatic change in “size inclusivity” of the past five years. Now there are mannequins and models of all shapes and sizes. The local athleta regularly displays skin tight spandex on a size 22 mannequin. [/quote]

OP here, and I have barely been shopping in the last 7 years. I known size inclusivity is a thing in the industry and I've noticed it in ads, but I gotta say when I was at the mall yesterday, I didn't see much of it. It definitely felt like a throwback to the 90s when clothes were only advertised on impossibly thin 15 year old models. I felt extremely old and huge (I am a size 4).[/quote]

The world isn't about you and making everything you see look like you. The models aren't impossibly thin, because they are that thin, hence it is not an impossibility.[/quote]

Yep, this. This thread is so bizarre. I am a late 30s size 2/4 and I feel like I am thin. Pictures of women thinner than me don’t make me feel bad. [/quote]
+1 The extreme insecurity from OP is really strange. When pictures of models cause someone to be so upset, you need intensive counseling. [/quote]

Intensive counseling? It is not weird at all that someone who hasn't shopped in a long time, and is starting a new job in their 40s and is unsure how to dress their body for it, would feel insecure while shopping. This is not some weird outlier experience. It's a freaking Cathy cartoon.[/quote]
This is 1000% weird. Especially to be impacted by models who are the less than 1% of the population. Therapy is a good place to work on self esteem and resiliency. [/quote]

[b]Blaming the victim is a very odd stance.[/b] Clearly women have been objectified since the dawn of time and it is a fact.[/quote]
There’s no victim. Just a deeply insecure woman who needs therapy. [/quote]

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.[/quote]
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? [/quote]

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