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'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. ;)