Bird Liberator!

[secondlina]

 

Before everyone starts telling me in the comments - Yes, i'm aware that as much as birds are cute, they are nasty. I was afraid of getting near it and afraid that I would have to go to work with Owl scratchies or worse. I was very cautious. I only tried to pull on the plastic wrap because it looked loose, almost as if somebody had sandwich-wrapped the owl's wing. It was trying to get it off by scratching. I never would have tried if it looked stuck.  I wanted to help because the owl was in the park I cross everyday to go to work... and well kids start to play there EARLY. If the plastic looked stuck, I would have just continued to work and called animal control. I'm not silly or cruel to animals. Plus I love owls.

I was still afraid this one was going to kill me. Sweet Oz. I was scared. This counts as my courageous and good Samaritan action of the week as a double-combo.

In other news. I have no life. A combination of lack of hours, travels, general geekdom and  laziness after a day of work have made is so that my art-related-work is in a horrible bottleneck of badness. I'm pretty much turning into a hermit in the next few weeks to catch up. I'll tell you guys more about that in the next post, along with a bit of an explanation about life as a part-time artist.

For now, I am AMAZED, in a bad way, at Japan again. Apparently, the ideal size for a woman over there is a size 2. Anything beyond is considered fat. WHAAAAAAAAAT! I know that asian women are smaller but, WHAAAAT? This is apparently encouraging anorexia and suicide nowadays among our sisters of the island. I'm outraged. Whenever I feel shameful about my weight (a pitiful size 8 to 10) I just read some kind of tabloid. The pure outrage I feel towards these outrageous standards and unrealistic expectations boosts my confidence. 

Ridiculous.

Lemme tell you that a size 10 character is a lot more fun to draw then a size 2. Curves are awesome. 

- Isa

EDIT : As mentioned in the comments, you should not encourage people to be incredibly thin or tell them to let it be and remain overweight. Feminism is not an excuse for laziness on unhealthiness. Perfection should be being healthy.

Really thin people don't exercise more then overweight ones. They usually try to do exercise to become thinner, and then discover that muscles actually take a lot of room. So the stop exercising, atrophying the muscles and stop eating to diminish the fat. So neither thin or fat people are necessarily healthy. What should be encourage is health, no matter what your "healthy weight" is. Because some people are naturally smaller and others bigger. And charts can determine that according to origin, diet, exercice routines and height.

Comments

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, plus Owls themselves can get pretty agressive (as proven by the stupid mass wave of people adopting owls after the Potter craze).

I don't know if you read Gajiin Smash, the blog of the professor in Japan, but apparently it's a pretty big issue in the school. And people aren't afraid of telling you they think you're fat.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Also, swans, they can be nasty.

I believe it. (Granted this is only from watching anime, so no idea how accurate this this) but I do also recall different episodes of anime of when the Japanese students having to get weighed at school. Geez, talk about embarrassment. @_@

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

And Imus. Don't forget Imus.

I find for situation like those, anime is probably sadly accurate. I think it's weird when they have characters drawn like stick figures whine about being horribly fat. girl, you should worry more about if you're healthy or not.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Exactly. With anime, you have to take it with a grain of salt as they say. I rather hear it from a more reliable source for learning about culture, although I do know that Japanese schools are a lot stricter than North American schools, so it wouldn't surprise me.

People put WAY too much emphasis that thin is healthy, when it's not. Like you said, you need to have a healthy body, being one of the two extremes isn't healthy. (Although, it's funny what each culture considers to be beautiful. I remember once watching a program about a small country, in Africa I think, where over weight women were considered the ideal women and you can imagine they have a lot of health issues there too.)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

O_O

And we are back to the Venus of Willendorf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf

[brendala.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you read Gajiin Smash, the blog of the professor in Japan, but apparently it's a pretty big issue in the school. And people aren't afraid of telling you they think you're fat.

I remember that entry. I still can't believe Japanese doctors blame every health issue on "fat" if the patient is over a size 3! I sure hope I never get sick in Japan! O_o

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Strange. For a bacterial-obsessed culture, they sure like to diminish potential problems to nothing.

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

how do they handle anorexia... O_o