Being thin isn’t the same as being skinny. I hate being called skinny.
I prefer being referred to as slender, which implies health and proportion.
Better yet, comment on how much you like me or my art, and leave my body alone.
“I’d rather you wouldn’t call me Slim. I’m a little too skinny to take it kindly.”
Spoken by Lauren Bacall in the film To Have and Have Not
Yes, I love your art, but at the moment I am falling on those Converses and lace. Is dressing closer to art or to body?
Yes I like you and love your art as well, and atm I’m totally hooked on those Converse shoes too!
Oh, and Sera, please change that lovely “suit” you’re dressing in your latest comics, it’s too hot for me to start the day!
I love the shoe in the head photo.
I am still perturbed by the fact that Mary Kate Olson has bajillions of dollars and a supposedly wonderful life; could certainly have afforded a nutritionist and therapy from the start; and was still so low in self-esteem that she developed an eating disorder.
I’m also perturbed that an unconventional-looking woman who calls herself beautiful is lauded for her courage, but a classic beauty who may have all the same self-esteem issues, calling herself beautiful, is chided for her conceit.
I’m also perturbed by the fact that some overweight women complain that no one treats them with respect, then they refer to thinner women as “skinny bitches.” Do we really have to, as someone said, blow someone else’s candle out in order to make our own glow more brightly?
Don’t mind me. I guess I’m pretty perturbed.
I still love the hell out of that shoe.
True that!
I like that shoe too – and the ink.
Bodies are strange things when I think about it. I’m peering out through the eyes, listening through the ear holes and feeling through my skin covering. But I’m the being inside, I’m not those things. Sometimes I have a good look at my face in the mirror and usually end up smiling and saying something like, “Just who do you think you are?”
You’re a thoughtful woman.
So many people get confused and think that we are our bodies- but I guess it is hard for some to see beyond that. I have days when I feel like I am my body, but on others, I’m not.
I love the drawing in this comic, particularly love the bottom left image- beautiful.
i like u sera… i just love ur art….see iam also not that much fat. iam just 50kg… iam very eager 2 c ur face dear…. u r very talented Sera….
very nice, Sera
Wouldn’t it be interesting to live in a world without mirrors so we could only see ourselves in the eyes of others?
Zombie thin, eh? Sounds ta me like someone wrote a comic to cover up their insecurities by cutting down an image that society has created. Regardless, wimmenz with a good layer o’ meat be the good ones, it prevents bruised pelvises. Never met a skinny lady I liked, except fer soup bones o’ course. Don’t take much skinnin for ‘dems.
great shoes.
love your creativity and words.
being thin, when someone refers to me as skinny, i don’t like it.
Once someone is comfortable with their body and they are healthy, then people should not pressure them to change their body!
Bettina. Do you have those out-of-body experiences frequently?
Dandellion. I like dressing according to how I feel.
Gary & Susan. The eyes are more reliable than the mirror.
GW. I love your comments about how we perceive ourselves and each other. How we look says something about us but how it’s we perceive that determines our character and worth.
R.T. I din’t cut anybody down. Din’t mean to.
Thanks Jessica, Kalai, Rags, Eidur & everyone. HUGS!
Stunner. Agreed! Staying healthy is so important.
Self-image is important too, and that’s many people’s undoing.
I agree! Great one!
I love this one! Although, I have to say, I would have absolutely no objection being calledskinny!!
But you are right about how sometimes the inner person does not match up with their outward appearance. I have a stepsister who is struggling very hard with an eating disorder, and she was never more OUT of control then when she was at her (very frightening) skinniest. And, interestingly, once she started eating she then gained about 60 pounds in two months and became a compulsive eater, and she was then she was considered overweight. Still basically the same amount of out of control , just in the other direction.
So I guess you never know when you just look at people.