I saw this sign when I was walking back to my car after a meeting with a client, an academic center that does research on sexual health. Recently, I've been experiencing my very first bout of serious body insecurities. I've always been relatively thin, but the first year of grad school has wreaked havoc on both my diet and exercise schedule, havoc that I've spent most of the summer trying to undo. Still, I've only recently begun to remind myself that, now back to my normal weight, that I need to cut myself a little slack.
There is an emerging field called Media Ecology, about which I know very little about, but which studies the overall effect on an individual living in a advertising- or media-rich environment. Here, someone has left an informal public service announcement. Of course, I wonder if it was one of my clients at the center...
