“The prevailing view in our culture is that as you close out your fortieth year or so, you enter a period of aging and decline. To pair age with growth seems to be contradiction in terms. This is a myth I refuse to believe, and I want to help you shatter it as well.” (p28)
Day: May 16, 2011
Why is it that it’s considered impolite to call someone fat, yet, people think it’s perfectly fine to say to me, in a derogatory tone, “You’re so skinny!” I feel like responding with, “Thank you, and you’re so fat!” How would they like that? Unless you are commenting on my skinniness as a compliment, that I look good being skinny, making an observation that I am skinny is as impolite as calling someone fat. But no one seems to think of it that way.