tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post8586275421860035679..comments2024-01-01T08:08:40.231-06:00Comments on Pen and Palette: Are Skinny Women Happy?Susan Cushmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12513534110522851590noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-24724108908272449432010-11-10T06:53:32.658-06:002010-11-10T06:53:32.658-06:00I think being comfortable in your skin takes time-...I think being comfortable in your skin takes time- and age. We may never be completely satisfied due to what I call a "fat head", or thinking that you're fat no matter how thin you are (love the skeleton cartoon!)The media plays a big part in this anorexic facade. There was recently a photo in Glamour Magazine of a pretty, middle aged woman who was nude , but sitting so her private Julie S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-59403189109989053302010-11-09T09:33:44.054-06:002010-11-09T09:33:44.054-06:00Susan, The memoir I'm working on in my first s...Susan, The memoir I'm working on in my first semester at VCFA is "Fragile", and the seed of it was from a 2008 journal entry. I drove 6 hours to Kentucky in a snowstorm to be with my family at my sister's bedside on the 5th day of her coma; she'd again attempted suicide, taken 300 (yes, 300!!) pills (Vicodin, Xanax, Valium, muscle rexalers, etc). That night, I wrote about dubuashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17019516879958381855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-2308064504684799142010-11-09T07:41:48.650-06:002010-11-09T07:41:48.650-06:00Thanks so much for your thoughts, Carol, Lou, Cind...Thanks so much for your thoughts, Carol, Lou, Cindy and Emma. All very good reminders that, as Emma said, "Humans are all so odd."I have a friend who used to be thin but is now considerably overweight. She told me once that since she gained weight she has noticed that people just ignore her in public quite often. She's a very friendly, genuine person, and she says she feels "Susan Cushmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12513534110522851590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-29392909953617849882010-11-09T06:54:49.223-06:002010-11-09T06:54:49.223-06:00Interestingly, Susan I've always thought of yo...Interestingly, Susan I've always thought of you as being "skinny". The fact is, your're skinnier than me. Isn't it odd how we are never pleased with ourselves, and it's either our bodies or our hair or our wrinkles, or our feet, or our skin tone or something we find unacceptable. Our generation, and the one just behind us on down to the young ones just approaching Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05746848980923855417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-12932073344755928982010-11-08T09:39:56.452-06:002010-11-08T09:39:56.452-06:00nice blog. i don't think anyone is truly happy...nice blog. i don't think anyone is truly happy in the looks department. we always wish for what we don't have. people with curly hair want straight hair. people with dark hair wish for light hair. short people want to be taller. and with media and culture telling us what is beautiful and acceptable, we are always trying to measure up to that standard. so even if you are skinny, you may cinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718672737802429174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-35688567026494986832010-11-08T09:32:04.712-06:002010-11-08T09:32:04.712-06:00Being skinny doesn't make you happy. I'm s...Being skinny doesn't make you happy. I'm skinny via freaky genetics, yet whatever luck I got in that department has been more than equaled out by the rest of my life.<br /><br />I do think sometimes women who put their appearance in front of everything else may become resentful of those who make a different choice and seem to love themselves the way they are. <br /><br />And finally, I Lou Freshwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08849342766852653969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468471283937804953.post-89869607392952361842010-11-08T09:28:41.871-06:002010-11-08T09:28:41.871-06:00Could it just be an age difference? Perhaps the sk...Could it just be an age difference? Perhaps the skinny girls are younger than us and with all this new technical social networking, they have lost (or never been taught) the art of face to face social networking? Just a thought.Carolhttp://carolmarksonline.comnoreply@blogger.com