Thin

have been busy, and judging from the paucity of posts on BusBench, so, too, has been Browne.

Coming out of my weeks-long work, however, I elected to watch a documentary titled "Thin." Browne suggested it, and I reluctantly agreed. It is a recent doc about eating disorders.

I was not particularly impressed, and had less sympathy for anyone involved very quickly. This did not change throughout the viewing.

I imagine many folk have commented on the poor girls' plight. I will not weigh in on that aspect, but on the staff. The people alleging to help the girls at the rather pricey clinic are indicative of the very problems that have prompted the patients to seek thinness at any price. At least half of the staff are by a strict medical defintion morbidly obese. There is a propensity for wearing name-brand fashion crap such as Abercrombie T-shirts and Adidas baseball caps that should be abolished for reason only a complete idiot would fail to immediately comprehend. And there are at least two staff members whose middle-aged attempts to remain beach bunnies - replete with bleached hair, too much make-up and ridiculously girlish clothing - are hideous as well as pathetic.

It is outrageous that people who possess their own eating disorder are being paid good money to advisehow others should resolve their own eating disorders. There is a pear-shaped man in his late 20s or very early 30s who could easily be 125 lbs. less were he to eat healthfully. There are several middle-aged women who simply do not get off their collective fat arse. Why should someone with  the problem of binging and purging listen to someone with the same problem minus the purging part?

Must I explain the bit about name brands on apparel? Very well, since the staff of the clinic under review - Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, FL - are too damned daft to understand the bleeding obvious. Is not the fashion world in the western hemisphere what is well known to have prompted the tidal wave of eating disorders? Would you give running shoes to a man whose legs were recenlt amputated? Would you give Jesus Christ a stump of dogwood were he to come back to save your arse? What the hell is wrong with you morons?

The two women who could easily be my mother - and note that I am 40 years of age - need to give up the bleaching of hair, wearing of heavy make-up and the entire "I'm still just a surfer girl on the beach at Spring Break" bullshit. Is that desire to be a sexpot not the same one that their patients espouse yet cannot handle? It is highly unprofessional not to mention pathetic, unless one is seeking to star in MILF videos on BangBros.

In the end, all I can state is that the one girl who was pushed out of Renfrew's little community (by the same fucked-up staff who would do well to stop raiding their refigerators at night) was apparently purged owing to lack of funds albeit under the auspices of the patient being problematic.

-BusTard