REALLY REALLY

TLW (The Little Woman) was describing a woman to #2 Son who they both know, but #2 wasn’t quite sure of.

“She is tall, with a pretty face, a bit of red in her hair, says she knows you, Michael. She’s not skinny skinny, but she is thin.”

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“WHAT is “Skinny skinny”? I inquired.

“Well, that would be someone like (someone we know), she would be skinny skinny."

#2 “But Ma, she is NOT skinny!”

“Well when I was growing up she would be considered skinny."

Me: “So what would you call a fat person?” Getting nervous.

“I don’t like to call people fat. I would say: she is slightly beyond her prescribed or ideal weight.”

“So because you are trying to be polite, you have shifted the categories and renamed them.” I think this is being politically correct.

Of course there is another category she always uses for people with anorexia: “Thin thin thin.”

She has over the years: re-ordered life so that even Darwin would need to take heed.

So, slightly beyond prescribed or ideal weight.” is the new “fat”!

We now have ideal weight as: “Who Cares”

There is ideal weight with good looks and youth as: “Annoying”

Thin as: Skinny Skinny and

Anorexia as: “Thin thin thin”!

If you see yourself in any of these categories, get something to eat and get over it.

From someone who is: skinny skinny and delusional.