Junk In The Trunk
In the comments of our still-lively discussion about Sal’s blog entry, Wendy alerted us to this story, about an author named Penelope Trunk who disagrees with the argument of a rival author, Leslie Bennett, about stay-at-home motherhood.
“Trunk decided to take the low road, ridiculing Bennetts as ‘INCREDIBLY FAT!!!’ (All caps and exclamation points hers, of course.) ‘This woman is walking around telling people you have to have a career while you’re raising kids in order to take care of yourself,’ Trunk fumes, ‘and she is obviously not taking care of herself. Look, I wouldn’t be harping on this if she weren’t so fat…’ “
In her blog entry on the subject, Jennifer Weiner commented:
“Perhaps Penelope Trunk doesn’t know anyone bigger than a breadbox. Maybe it’s news to her that it is possible to take care of yourself and still not look like Paulina Porizkova. Health and happiness actually do come in sizes other than zero, and I’ve got no time for anyone who hasn’t figured that out. Nor do I have any money, either: I suspect my fat fingers will be unable to work the clasp of my wallet should I put down the Ho Hos, waddle down to the local bookstore and find Trunk’s book there.”
I had to resist quoting more of Weiner’s blog post, because it is so all-around fabulous but I’m sure you’ll go read it, right? Thanks for the tip, Wendy.
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I love Jennifer Weiner’s books. I think I love her even more now!!!
It is true that, no matter how many accomplishments one makes in life, none of it really matters if they are fat. People will look at them and automatically lump them into one category and anything distinguished about their personalities, careers, achievements will all go out the window in someone else’s mind.
Pretty damn pathetic if you ask me!
While searching for more on Leslie Bennett, I came across this blog entry http://www.drlaura.com/blog/category/leslie-bennetts/ by “Dr.” Laura about the book. She apparently is still pissed off by an article written in Vanity Fair about her by Bennett and just HAS to give her two cents on Leslie Bennett’s physique:
“That woman from Vanity Fair came for the first meeting with me and I knew I was in trouble, when I came in and sat down, and she took a look at my figure and disdainfully asked me if I was a size zero, while she was somewhere between fat and obese, and I was trying to get her an appropriate sandwich, but she wanted to eat something with a lot of mayonnaise – I knew there was a problem from that point on, to be honest with you.”
How hateful is that?
It is so totally wrong for me to say so, but: I can see how Laura Schlessinger stays so thin only eating sour grapes. What she really needs is to eat more crow.
Hello…Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts ! it was a great Sunday