Scooby Don't

New kerfuffle floating around the online world and media. Scooby Do has done a Scooby Don't and I gotta say, I'm pretty annoyed with the whole notion that fat=cursed/bad/unlucky/pretty but...etc.

So in the made for DVD movie, Daphne gets cursed from a size 2, to a ginormous size 8. This is what a size 8 looks like by the way, at least in Warner Brother land.

Oh, the horror!

So if anyone has any doubts about the negative messages women receive from a very young age that fat=bad, here's a good example.

The average size of a woman in North America is a size 12, which doesn't even come close to this, not that this is bad or cursed, but children...let me repeat CHILDREN are blatantly being told that a size 8 is fat, and we all know that fat is a curse because it's bad. So now a size 8 is fat (and it's not limited to Scooby Do, I've seen growing numbers of "plus sized" clothes where the model is an 8). This is disturbing since it's widely regarded that fat=bad and the pool just got a whole lot bigger. On the other hand, more people to rage against the machine and while it shouldn't get someone of a size 8 to get people to take positive body image seriously, I'm willing to receive all the help we can get.

I see a lot of parents of young girls who are appalled naturally for the direct marketing of this message in a show about a really stupid and annoying Great Dane (sorry, was never a Scooby fan) as a parent of young boys, I'm equally as annoyed. I have been trying to instill in them a healthy body image because more and more, men are also being targeted by the whole ideal body image train. I'm also trying to teach by example that fat women are not somehow less than. I'm not less than smart, capable, ambitious, hard working, funny, pretty, pretty awesome, the list goes on, simply because I weigh more. I don't want them to buy into this notion that for a woman (or man) to be awesome s/he has to be skinny. Needless to say, I will not be buying this DVD. I'm also annoyed by the notion that being cursed automatically means your hair goes curly, but that's a whole other blog.

My dress size is not a curse, it's a dress size, it ends there. I'm not bad, I'm not unhealthy-not that it's any of your business, but it's one of the first things that pop into people's minds when wanting to criticize my weight, I'm not lazy, stupid, wildly uninhibited or boring. If society is so obsessed with a number on the back of my clothing and unwilling to look at me for my many merits, there is a big problem and it's not the size of my ass