Sometimes it takes an outside opinion to show you that need to make a change.
Like when Amazon sends you an email stating:
"As a fan of paranormal teen fiction, you may like this new book."
A fan of paranormal teen fiction? It sounds so harsh when you say it out loud. So I like YA lit, so what?! Amazon has no right to judge me...did they really have to use the word "paranormal"? It sounds so creepy.
Then, I get a call from Amy letting me know that our favorite magazine, Domino, had been canceled and replaced with Glamour.
Sure enough, I look in my mailbox and find the following statement from Domino:
"With regret, we have decided that we will no longer be publishing Domino. In its place, we will be sending you Cookie....."
WTF?!?! Amy gets Glamour and I get Cookie? That is clearly zip-code profiling. Just b/c Amy lives in some posh, up-and-coming, "transitional", city neighborhood and I live in the burbs DOES NOT mean that I should be treated as a Cookie-reader!
I mean, sure, I shop at Super Wal*mart (who doesn't want to save money and live better!), go to bed before 9pm on most nights (I don't want to look old), love CBS (How I Met Your Mother is completely hilarious) and a good cake-mix recipe but as God as my witness I will NOT become a Cookie-subscriber!
At least you are not 30.
Posted by: Amy Clayman | April 21, 2009 at 06:42 AM
I am a big fat plus size woman too. I wear plus size dresses to hide my tummy. But I don't consider myself big, fat lame-O.
Posted by: Plus Size Clothing Woman | July 13, 2009 at 02:36 AM