Are they shitting me?
I started working in a different department (ah, the life of an editorial subcontractor) and there is a SCALE in the ladies’ room. I haven’t checked the men’s room *snort* but I somehow doubt it is similarly appointed.
Hi! I'm Marianne Kirby! I'm fat!
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I'm on a mission here to let you know that fat people are not your enemy. And skinny people aren't your enemy either.
Here, the body is a political one no matter its size or shape. We are going to unpack society's standards of beauty, the oppression of the dominant social paradigm when it comes to body conformity, and talk about clothes. Maybe even makeup. Because I do love makeup.
Here, I hope, we will come to a place of acceptance. Acceptance for our own bodies and for the bodies of others.
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Oh, you should totally sneak into the men’s room and find out! If anyone catches you, just say you haven’t had your coffee yet.
April Fools?
wishful thinking
Wow, that’s fucked up.
My office used to have skinny mirrors in the women’s bathrooms! (Ie full length mirrors that distorted your reflection a little so you looked taller and thinner). I always wondered whether somebody screwed up the mirror order, or if they put them in on purpose to boost morale.
Stealth mission to move the scale to the men’s room!
Anyone?
Ooh! Idea – How bout you jack the scale and modify it to be like one of Marilyn Wann’s compliment scales? I’m not sure how difficult it is to do the modifications, but I think it would be HI-LARIOUS. Just a thought.
Julia, I LIKE the way you think!
Stealth mission to move the scale to the men’s room!
Anyone?
AWESOME idea. If I was there, I would SO be in on that mission!
I wonder if it was placed there by the company, or if it belongs to an employee. We had that at one job I worked at, a totally anorexic young woman would weigh herself 15 times a day.
I did work at one company that had a scale in the break room…I kid you not. Annoyed the hell out of me.
Julia, that’s what I was going to suggest!
*starts humming the Mission: Impossible theme*
you should totally go in and put an “April Fool’s!” sign on it.
Good fucking grief.
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What the hell?!
Oh my god. That’s . . . ewww.
I guess some people REALLY like to weigh themselves after they, you know, GO.
I repeat:
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OH EW! I hadn’t thought about that!
I echo the sentiments to move it, mod it, or otherwise somehow Interfere With It.
If it’s a dial-type, you should totally reset the zero to a few notches to the right every couple of days. Not enough that people think it’s off right away, just enough that after a month or so everyone’s so bothered by it that it disappears on its own.
That’s messed up…if I were you, I would totally go all super secret covert ninja and hide somewhere. In it’s place, I’d put body affirming quote and even the addresses of some FA blogs (like yours and Kate’s, for starters).
I say, just write “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL” on the scale.
Post-it note Haiku
You don’t need a scale
To justify the fulness
Of your existence
There are scales in all the restrooms where I work.. men and womens. They call it part of their “wellness program”.
Weight obsession as part of a “wellness” program? Oh, eeeuw.
(And yes, you do need to be a little obsessed to not be able to be away from the scale for a whole eight hours.)
But but…. scales can be fun – weigh yourself before you go to the bathroom and after… do the math and feel MORE PRODUCTIVE
In Berlin they have scales at several train stations. With a rhyme on it encouraging you to weigh yourself often and live accordingly to live long.