Comments on: Eat Less?

By: Ashlye

Ashlye — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:44:19 +0000

I love you for writing this post! [Okay, I love you anyways!]. It means a lot to me seeing & knowing that there are people out there [like you] that are calling UO out on their shit. Seeing that shirt again…it just made me speechless.
Anyway, you rock!
[I’ll explain more of why it’s so important to me tomorrow after acro!]

By: charlotte

charlotte — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:01:55 +0000

I’m so glad you wrote this! I saw this pic and was so disturbed by it that I haven’t been able to get it out of my head ever since. My first thought was “that model is sooooo tiny – what on earth would that shirt look like on me?” It’s definitely not meant to be worn with hips and boobs! I agree with everything you said. I hate how our society tells women that we are only as good as our weight is low, all other characteristics be darned. I can well imagine what this shirt would have done to me had I seen it as a teen. I hope other fragile girls will not see it.

By: Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga)

Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:57:48 +0000

clearly a publicity stunt on their part. at the expense of women’s self image and self construct. not cool.

your comment to be about liking being a SAHM.. me too! I do miss being in the working world but dont actully miss the work. haha!

hollar next time youre down in SD. Would love to see you!

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:52:04 +0000

Hmmm. I think inappropriate is an appropriate (hehe) word for that shirt. Unnecessary also comes to mind. But there are a ton of t-shirts out there with stupid and/or ridiculous messages on them, so it isn’t all that surprising.

By: Deb (SmoothieGirlEatsToo)

Deb (SmoothieGirlEatsToo) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:43:20 +0000

Oy. On the one hand, obese people don’t need to be reminded to eat less- they know this. Anorexia shouldn’t be glorified by having a tshirt saying “eat less” on a waif. I think it was just a publicity stunt to get more people raising their eyebrows, gasping and chattering. Not that that is always a bad thing, I do still find the campaign disturbing.

Thank you for raising the question!

By: Rebecca @ How the Cookies Crumble

Rebecca @ How the Cookies Crumble — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:29:39 +0000

It’s definitely offensive to have an “anorexic-like” model advertising “eat less”. It could definitely see how this can promote eating disorders or body image issues. While the message itself is a good one, a majority of the public should eat less, how it is advertised is pretty hypocritical. I could hardly imagine a thin person wearing this shirt, let alone a healthy or thicker person.

By: Retta @ RunRettaRun

Retta @ RunRettaRun — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:09:56 +0000

I completely agree w/ Crazysox. These shirts seem to be worn by the younger girls and I just can’t believe their parents would let them wear stuff like that.

By: Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42

Gina Fit by 41 Maybe 42 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:26:56 +0000

I’d like to see this shirt as part of the fast-food-chain uniforms.

By: crazysox

crazysox — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:37:31 +0000

I see “offensive” shirts on (mostly) young girls all the time.
Your boyfriend is checking me out
I love to study…boys
My boyfriend is hotter than your boyfriend
I’m a cutie… you’re not

Maybe “offensive” isn’t the right word for these shirts, but INAPPROPRIATE sure is!!

They make these shirts in size 6- as in a 6 year old would wear them! SICK!

By: JaredB

JaredB — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:32:58 +0000

I don't know, I kind of agree with the take of this doctor's post, where I first saw this shirt. If it isn't the "responsibility" of UO to tell obese people to eat less, you could argue by the same reasoning that it also isn't their responsibility to worry about NOT telling people with eating disorders or imbalanced self images the same thing. I agree with you that obesity (as well as the other concerns mentioned here) are a personal responsibility. As you suggested, I just took this as an interesting publicity stunt, based on a generally true idea/joke that many more people (in the US at least) need to worry about eating less than some of those other concerns, and I'm sure that even includes teenage girls (overall / on average).