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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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April 8, 2005

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heartbreakers
Such bad form to diss a comic and then become obsessed with it. Sigh!

I'm here at work trying to squeeze a day into 6 hours. I'm trying not to worry about the window washers outside the window (man, imagine being a window washer during an earthquake! Ack!), or my darlin' being potentially fired because of an off-the-record mis-quote that ended up in the company newsletter. Okay, I'm a mess. Which makes me wish I were a superhero, and not a nervous wreck.

But I'm not a superhero. Nor do I have a shock of brick-red, stand-up hair, though wouldn't that be cool? And cool flat knee-high boots?

Long story short, I was visiting comics blogs the other day and saw the graphic for the Heartbreakers, the two women clones with the shock of red hair and the tremendous breasts, and I made a snarky comment about how, well, could those breasts be any bigger?

But the graphic has stayed in my mind, and do I really think that they are going to have superheros with small or normal sized breasts, really? I mean, am I that naive? And it made me think of my own mixed feelings about my own breast valuepack.

Sigh. For the last 6 or 7 years, I've been wanting breast reduction surgery. And then in this last year, I was hoping that losing weight would make them get smaller on their own. That isn't happening. When will it happen? Dear g-d, when?

And I don't know if it's just the way I'm wired, but I love the look of breasts. I just want much less of them. I wish I could share with those who want more.

Posted at April 8, 2005

Comments

For what it's worth, those aren't from the artist's imagination. The work is based on photoshopped snapshots of the artist's wife, who pretty much looks exactly like that.

Posted by: Steve at April 8, 2005 8:13 PM