Comments on: In Touch With The Dutch

By: Bree

Bree — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:45:03 +0000

I see more slender women drinking SlimFast than us big gals. I thought about trying it, until I knew a woman who had to have her gall bladder removed because of excessive use. I haven’t had my gall bladder since June 2001, but I still wouldn’t touch it.

By: virg

virg — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:08:35 +0000

SlimFast = healthy slimness??? Puhlease! that stuff is just sugar crap. not healthy at all. corporate hypocrisy abounds!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:58:30 +0000

I doubt it very much Sheila – unlike most others, I see the Dove campaign as simply a means of exploiting fat women’s sympathies. I think the bottom line, as it always is, is money. Unilever is simply jumping on the ban-overly-skinny-models bandwagon in hopes consumers will approve with their checkbooks.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:50:00 +0000

Hey, I really like this site. I’m doing something a bit similar with my own blog, Fat Feminism. I’m going to add you to my blogroll and I was hoping you would take a look at my site and see if you would like to add me as well.

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(Btw, sorry for spamming your blogroll reply area, I didn’t realize what it was for and couldn’t delete the mess I made.)

By: Sheila

Sheila — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:25:44 +0000

Unilever is also the company that owns Dove — maybe that campaign started something…

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:33:40 +0000

Now if we could only convince the beer companies to show guys lusting after normal sized, realistic women instead of the blonde, sillicone enhanced, pamela anderson wannabes! If Budweiser tells them it’s OK to look at average (or above) weight chicks, then I might actually have a chance of hooking up at the club! LOLOL

By: Cristi

Cristi — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:10:58 +0000

Great topic for a blog! I will be a return reader.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:36:38 +0000

A coworker used to keep big tins of Slimfast in the kitchen at work while complaining that it “didn’t work”. I looked at the ingredients one day – the second ingredient was sugar.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:23:37 +0000

Yeah, I see that SlimFast has been using not-so-anorectic-looking models in its latest TV ads, but i wasn’t so long ago ads in Europe played on British women’s insecurities about how they look in bikinis alongside French peers in the annual fight along the European beaches.

By: spiderbite

spiderbite — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:02:11 +0000

I did see a Slim Fast ad the other day, though, that encouraged users to become whatever "slim" means for them. And the models were not all superskinny. (Ah, it's Find Your Slim. Which I keep wanting to type as "Find Your Slime.")