“Generation XXL”

The advertisement pictured in this Consumerist post* made me sad. (For those who can’t see it, it’s a little kid with their hands on their hips standing under the text “I will not be part of Generation XXL.”) Our society has enough things pressuring our children into disordered eating; the last thing we need is more anti-fat advertisements geared towards children.

The whole issue of calorie counts on menus, and of “healthy” always being code for “low-calorie,” are subjects for posts of their own, neither of which I am awake enough to write at the moment. But I do have a good internet connection at my apartment now, instead of just whatever weak, unsecured wireless network I could pick up, so that’s something.

* Sanity watchers on the comments. I mean, that goes for most Consumerist posts, but doubly as soon as anyone so much as thinks the word “fat.”