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

[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.