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300th Dev: Why I Hate Shopping

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So...this is my 300th deviation.

I was stressing out about it for a while, thinking that my 300th deviation should be something big, my greatest work yet.

But then I was all like, "this is my achievement. This is for me. Fuck it, I'm drawing something that I like, screw everyone else!"

I've been wanting to draw this for the longest time now, going on about four years, actually. It's not the best thing I've ever done (I can spot a million things wrong with it in just one glance), but I really like it.

This is based on something that actually happened to me. I was in a Hot Topic shopping around a couple years back, and there was this girl there with her friends and her father shopping as well. The daughter was shopping for a skirt and the father, getting impatient with how long it was taking her to decide, just started pointing out random skirts to see if she'd like one. I was right next to them as he pulled a horizontally striped skirt off of the rack and showed it to her. Her reply?

"Stripes make you look fat."

Guess who happened to be there wearing a striped shirt and was about forty pounds heavier than her??? >.>

I got over the whole "body image" thing in Sophomore year. Now I think my curves are sexy and I love how jeans make my ghetto booty look. I have nothing against girls that are smaller than me, for every body type is beautiful, but it really pisses me off when some of them going around calling themselves fat or saying shit like the girl in the store when they're around bigger people. It's like, "well, what does that make us??? Fucking Shamu?"

It's really difficult to explain. I say that I don't care about the body image thing, yet I'm offended when girls do crap like this. I guess the best way to say it is, it doesn't matter how proud I am of my body, "fat" is still an insult. And just like "stupid" or "slutty" or any other insult out there, just because you don't agree with what they're saying, doesn't mean it doesn't make you angry.

And it makes me hate shopping because I hear girls says this and if they're low enough to say crap like that, they're probably low enough to find something that'll make them feel better. AKA someone larger than they are. AKA me. And I don't go to the mall to be someone else' confidence booster/ side show attraction.

I don't think I explained that very well... ^^; Sorry. Y'all probably think I hate skinny girls now or am a hypocrite DX I think this'll be my last endeavor into anything remotely like a political cartoon lol I shall now return to my fanarting! :lmao:
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CherubFeet's avatar
I don't think that stripes make people look fatter. It's all a part of our strange obsession with what we look like.

Black is not a "slimming color" either.

I swear that people are going nuts.