Baby got back

[flexagon]

Here's a post I've been wanting to make at least since last week... I've been having a weird psychological issue lately with this stupid phrase I've never heard before. Junk in the trunk. I heard it once when someone was joking about places to hide a little fat, and I blinked and thought it was a weird thing to say. Then I heard it a second time from bluechromis, who was saying something positive and friendly about it, and somehow after that it got in my head and I have encountered it further in talking about it. Ugh... I don't like it at all... it makes me want to be thin, really thin, rail thin, ana-is-my-best-friend thin, no junk anywhere thin. It is soooo triggering.

All of which is bad, because I know it's meant to be a positive phrase, and I don't want to be so unaccepting of myself and others. But god, that phrase is such a trigger for my unacceptance. 'Junk' just doesn't mean anything good to me--I can't think of a single context where I've said that word in a positive way. The last thing I want is junk sticking to me where I can't get rid of it. Especially because, absent this phrase from my head, I feel just fine about my body.

So. Anyone know of a counter-mantra?

Comments

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I've never liked that phrase myself and honestly, I haven't come across it until I stumbled on this @ PVPonline (http://www.pvponline.com/archive/2005/pvp20050105.gif). Then, for 4-5 strips after, Jade & Brent have it out about being slightly overweight. Jade is skinny as a rail and Brent keeps pushing a little more food in her direction.

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I'm a dumbass and didn't link properly - PVP Comic (http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20050105) - then go forward 4-5 strips.

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

yeah, the crazy image naming convention that they came up with made it hard to see the next few strips after the one you linked to. ;-) (pvp20050105.gif)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Easier to click arrows. :p

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

back in my day we didn't have arrows. everyone knew that there was a forward and a back, a left and a right, but it was up to you to figure them out. if someone were brazen enough to try to 'point' you in a direction, you'd have been fully within your rights to cut of their hand.

look what's happened since. streets that used to be adorned by beautiful maples and elms are now littered with arrows for parking. arrows for turning. arrows for walking. Construction manuals have arrows for where things should go! which direction they should be pointing! which order things should be done in!

what's next I ask you? will kids' mazes have arrows showing them the right way to go through? will book pages have arrows telling you which way to read and which way to flip the pages?

it's too much i tell you. someone has to make a stand for what is right. demand that we go back to a simpler way of life.

I want my arrowless world back ... now

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Silly bear. :) I agree with you, but feh.. it's a lazy world these days. ;)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Besides, you already have a counter mantra:
"I am teh s3x0r!"

[flexagon]

*grins* Short, sweet, and possibly effective. I shall try it.

[jg26.livejournal.com]

B & I saw it on Chappelle's Show (on comedy central)... but I thought it was chunk in the trunk. UrbanDictionary.com (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badonkadonk&skip=40) agrees (def #49). Junk in the trunk sounds like something else entirely...

Personally, I think it is a good thing. IMHO, a girl w/ a flat ass just ain't worth lookin' at.

[jg26.livejournal.com]

I've been poking around at the scripts... and apparantly your were right, i was wrong... it is 'junk'.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

It's definitely junk: UrbanDictionary.com Part 2 (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=junk+in+the+trunk&r=f)

[jg26.livejournal.com]

from that definition, it makes it sound like a negative... being past 'curvy'

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I've heard it as both curvy and past curvy. Even if it's a bit past curvy, for me I don't see it as a horrible phrase. Beauty standards fluctuate so much anyway - what's curvy one place is fat another and skinny in another.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazingly obnoxious. I'm so glad I hadn't run into it before.

Possible counter-mantra: "I'm a SUPERstar and cooler than Madonna!!"

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I really don't think it's bad. It's just a rhyme to me. *shrug* On the other hand, although I'm not a fan of my current overly curvy state, I don't want a flat ass either...so perhaps that's why I don't think it's bad.

[flexagon]

:)

It's definitely not really negative. Just a little negative (the word "junk"). I think I'm just having an allergic reaction or something.

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

It was in that Sir Mix-a-lot song. I don't like it either, but I'm just able to ignore it. Usually :)

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I remember 'baby got back' from Sir Mix-a-lot, but don't remember 'junk in the trunk' from him?

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

The closest he comes to saying it is "But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda". I stand corrected, LOL. I am proud not to have known that ;)

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind I've dated black guys too - been enthusiastically told having a bit of a butt is a great thing. So I know it's usually meant as a positive.

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

random musings:
counter-mantra: 'flat is phat'?
junk in a good context: Antique Road Show?
pro 'junk-in-the-trunk' thought: JLo's butt is worth like a gazillion dollars

*hugs*

[flexagon]

Haha... thanks for the hugs and funny thoughts. At the moment I'm far more amused about making a 20-comment post than I am sad about my supposed trunk. ;)

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