I hear ya sista. This is me too. Like I ate cookies for breakfast so I feel bit bad reading this thread. (though I will admit as much as I looooove pizza I almost never eat it like some of the girls in these shows.)
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Just Kidding! I’m also a slender person who eats (as one of my friends puts it) “like my teenage son”. I’m a pig, but it doesn’t show.
I guess I just don’t see it as a trope. Because most thin women do eat “terrible” diets, if by terrible diets you mean franks and waffles.
Have you ever seen the show “Fixer Upper” on HGTV? This couple lives in Waco, Texas and they help people find a home within their budget, and fix it up for them.
Noooo!!! My eating disordered self loves seeing people eat all the foods. That is part of the reason I like Gilmore Girls and the West Wing.
I think Leslie was able to eat like that because she was super active all the time and probably didn’t actually eat regular meals. She’d run around doing local government shit like a manic hamster without sleeping for three days straight and then dive face first into a plate of waffles as her only sustenance for the…
Monica’s situation made some sense to me, but I could never figure out how Chandler and Joey could afford basically the same/not as well furnished apartment on an actor’s/whatever the hell Chandler did salary
The Donna one for surrrre. Although in season 1 they mention a roommate and how she wears clothes and returns them. But yeah later it’s totally unrealistic. What about Josh’s though?
Isn’t Grace the same actress from Mysteries of Laura? Agreed that she is unhealthy skinny. But I actually thought Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope had more realistic body types and I think 30 Rock there was an episode wear she says her weight/pants size and it was a realistic number? Pam also had a relatively healthy body…
Pheobe was moving out on the dl. But it was Monica’’s grandma’s place and was rent controlled.
Yeah, there are obviously people who actually eat like that and stay skinny, nobody’s saying there aren’t. But the VAST majority of people who eat like that are going to be overweight. But look! Somehow 100% of the characters on TV who eat like that are super thin! What an odd coincidence that has nothing to do with…
yeah lol she got the apartment working part time as a barista
On a related note: In episode 2F09 when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that…
Heh. Well, maybe? But as a former NYer (born and raised, my friend) I can tell you this - unless you’ve got a buttload of money or a family that has lived there since the 1960's and has lived in the same rent-controlled apartment for the last 48 years and will NEVER EVER EVER LEAVE, you’re going to have a hard time…
Nothing wrong in gorging on cinnamon roll and retiring somewhere like an anaconda to digest it. It’s medicinal in this case. Medicine’s important.
In case it helps: the guy from my PhD program that failed the comprehensive exams applied again to PhD programs. He got into a lower raked place. He was the best student in that place so...he ended up with a better job than the rest of us who passed the comprehensives and stayed. That may happen to you, or if you want…
This is being a teenager distilled into its perfect angsty essence.
Awww look at that “mo-ooooom!!! This is stupid!!” face. Congrats to her!
Yeah, they know, that’s why they’re doing it.