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December 13, 2013 at 4:11 pm #609912
JoBParticipantthis dropped into my box today and i found it intriguing
http://www.realfarmacy.com/because-who-is-perfect/#sb5uODt5oiEmrRDV.01
i would love to see a project like this here
on a more practical level… i have long wanted to see a range of average size mannequins in stores showcasing fashions…
December 13, 2013 at 4:18 pm #801434
JoBParticipantwouldn’t you know..
this was also in my box this morning
another look at how we look at ourselves..
i suspect this is why friends have tried to stop me from describing myself as a little old lady or a curmudgeon
December 13, 2013 at 4:25 pm #801435
TanDLParticipantThanks for sharing these, JoB. Profound messages in both of them.
December 13, 2013 at 5:22 pm #801436
miwsParticipanti suspect this is why friends have tried to stop me from describing myself as a little old lady or a curmudgeon
Exactly!
Because I think of you as neither.
Mike
December 13, 2013 at 11:37 pm #801437
metrognomeParticipantHuffPo has an article with this video plus a slideshow from ‘Enhance the UK’. The H-P article notes that our very own Nordies has been using models with disabilities for over 20 years.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/disabled-mannequins-video_n_4379586.html
I would note that the mannequins all seem to have visited Wax On Salon and the guys seem to have had a *little* too much removed …
December 13, 2013 at 11:51 pm #801438
JoBParticipantmiws..
i recently read the definition of curmudgeon and decided to stop calling myself that…
even though i think fondly of what i think of as curmudgeonly older folks .. there isn’t anything in that definition to be fond of.
i will have to find or invent a new word…
isn’t that what boomers do ;->
as for the little old lady thing … i will admit that the little in that description does not fit me very well… and i suppose i am older rather than old…
but i have crossed the great societal divide between passing as young and .. well.. not…
and that’s more than ok with me.
today … something i did made me think of the girlfriend’s code …
a notion that is probably as antiquated as i am:)
and that made me ponder.
what i think of as the girlfriend’s code.. what girlfriends or just plain friends for that matter …
you have to realize that i grew up during a time period when the kinds of friendships that are now common between the opposite sexes weren’t much acknowledged …
do for one another
is based on values that are well over 50 years old
sometimes i forget that…
so i swiftly gave myself a talking to for expecting someone younger
whose moral compass wasn’t set in the same circumstances or time period that set mine
to do the same thing i would have done in similar circumstances.
and no.. just in case anyone reads more than is there into that… this reflection had absolutely nothing to do with anything that happened within the virtual community of the WSB forum….
as for whether my moral compass is better or worse than anyone elses.. i really don’t know and i don’t much care…
the only moral compass i measure is my own and whether the rest of the world still values the things i was taught to value as a child or not..
i do..
to do less myself would disappoint me…
not only do i like being older …
i have absolutely no intention to change me to suit the what appears to be the more modern temperament…
so people might as well know up front that they are dealing with a little old lady … it will help set their expectations
they’re just lucky i don’t carry a cane yet
i think i might be too tempted to become a tripping hazard with one ;-> ;->
December 14, 2013 at 1:10 am #801439
JanSParticipantoh, have thought of that many times……or just a good whack across the back of the head (gently, of course) :D
December 14, 2013 at 1:31 am #801440
waynsterParticipanthehehehe me too…..lmao… :0)
December 14, 2013 at 7:08 pm #801441
BreezyParticipantThe how we look at ourselves link I’ve watched before and is very eye-opening. Was in a class once and the professor asked us to think about a name we were called or something that was said to us when we were young, a label if you please. We were to then get up and introduce ourselves to each other using that name(s). I introduced myself as “Hi. I’m too thin and eat like a bird.” This I heard from the time I was very young and still hear at times. The one that sent me from the room in tears was the young woman who introduced herself as, “Hi. I’m stupid and ugly.”
She had heard these adjectives, remembered their ugliness, and still thought of herself in that way. The lesson/objective was to watch what we say to and about others – we were future teachers.
I am thin. I am at the low end of the size/height charts because I always have been, since birth. I am active and I eat.
I have been on the receiving end of some ugly comments because of this. While no one would ever dare say to a person, “you’re too fat. stop eating that.” I frequently hear, “you’re too thin. you need to eat more.”
Why is this okay?
December 16, 2013 at 1:29 am #801442
JoBParticipantDecember 16, 2013 at 5:37 am #801443
gmabettyParticipantLove the mannequin idea. How wonderful someone had the initiative to create them.
As to the drawings, its sometimes amazing how we see ourselves and how others see us.
And I definitely have earned the privalig, guess I can’t even spell it :), of being a “little old lady”. Though the “little ” isn’t so accurate, short maybe.
Do you feel like that, is that why you refer to yourself as such? You don’t look it.
When my sister was reaching her upper 70″s & becoming more limited in her abilities, she said “but I don’t want to be old!” Well, now I know how she felt. But I do try to enjoy my life.
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