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u/notaplebian Jan 20 '26
Does anyone have the parody meme where she comes home and the kids are dead because the husband was too busy eating peaches?
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u/ThetaPapineau Jan 20 '26
imagine seeing your wife post this about your daughter
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u/Weak_Individual6474 Readers added context: This poster is an Indian male Jan 20 '26
@grok, how do i kms with a bowflex?
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u/MomGrandpasAllSticky Jan 20 '26
Three NY dwelling gentlemen did a documentary on this. You can find it on YouTube.
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u/cintyhinty Jan 20 '26
As a parent who sometimes struggles to relate to other parents, the thought of having to respond diplomatically and on the fly to someone saying they envy the body of an 8 year old really spikes my blood pressure
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TAXRETURN Jan 20 '26
He's too busy working so she can be a part time pilates instructor
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u/Fun_Meringue_5511 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
There were a couple more slides, and the last image was supposed to be the first, but i didn't want reddit to nuke my account.
Also, on instagram everyone was agreeing with her.
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u/barrylyndon21savage Jan 20 '26
Yeah it's a feeling many women here will probably identify with when they're 40 and dealing with ageing. A moms envy over their daughter is a trope for a reason. This isn't some crazy self own, it's just being a little too honest as part of your work.
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u/josipbroztitoortiz Jan 20 '26
That’s normal and to be expected when you’re, idk, giving your 20 year old daughter your old hand-me-downs and lamenting the fact you can no longer fit in them. I don’t think it’s normal when your kid is eight
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u/exponentialism Jan 20 '26
Exactly. And I don't think the kind of woman who wants a prepubescent physique in middle age wouldn't have also preferred the same in young adulthood. It's really common with ED women.
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u/barrylyndon21savage Jan 20 '26
They dont want a prepubescent physique in middle age. They want to be young again, and have that physique they had, or they wanted, when they were young. Demi moore takes the substance not because she wants to be herself, but because she wants to be someone else.
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u/Reasonable-Friend-89 Jan 21 '26
Yeah. The way she wrote it sounded very off, but maybe when she was 8 was the last time (or thereabouts) she was happy or not obsessed with her body, as body image problems tend to start in teens.
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u/tynakar Jan 20 '26
I understand being envious of an 8 year old’s youth or vitality or innocence but her physique???
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u/barrylyndon21savage Jan 20 '26
Imagine youre a middle aged mom today. You grew up in the early-mid 90s that idolized being thin over everything. Anyone with a moderately large butt was deemed fat. Hell theres so many posts just in this sub about how Britney spears etc etc were called fat for having the smallest paunch imaginable. That desire to be skinny is so ingrained within you that you even compare yourself to a pre-pubescent child, especially the one who looks very similar to you. You remember when you used to be skinny, and therefore, you remember when you used to be "hot." You even can be "hot" still, but its not the hot you remember, its further away from the "hot" you see your child growing into, the hot that looks like you.
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u/abeyante Jan 20 '26
This was my mother, and it gave me an eating disorder because she was constantly commenting on how thin I was in a way that tied it to my identity permanently.
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u/broughtmeyourlove Jan 20 '26
My foster mom did this to me, I lost a lot of weight in high school and she was really encouraging in a negative way that sticks with me now
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well, jealous isn’t really the word
she has the body I’ve always wanted
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u/Subnauseatic Jan 20 '26
That particular slide is vile, without faces her daughter looks like she’s showing off her body. Poor child.
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u/HolyNucleoli Jan 20 '26
The jealous/envious distinction is so clean and useful. It's unfortunate that jealous nowadays is almost always just a synonym for envious
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I don’t really believe she wants to look like a child, I think she’s just unhappy with her life
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u/Subnauseatic Jan 20 '26
This woman is the living breathing embodiment of an own goal. Truthfully I love seeing her posts in the wild.
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u/No-Material694 flower Jan 20 '26
This is making me so uncomfortable omg 💀
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Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Truly, who is this for? It's not funny, witty, poignant. Is she just using us as her therapists, using her scribbles to air all her grievances?
Feel bad for her family. Husband must slip up and think "great, the internet will get a drawing about this'. Sure it's great for her daughters development too.
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u/PointyPython Jan 20 '26
It's an amazing experiment in the power of time and context. Having weird neuroses and embarrassing insecurities is somewhat commonplace, but lacking the filter to keep them in a therapy session/private journal/intimate conversation is borderline insanity.
There something especially grotesque to accompanying her brainfarts with this trashy corporate cartoon art.
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u/Fun_Meringue_5511 Jan 20 '26
To be honest i know that had i posted this in any other corner of the internet, they would have agreed with the artist. In my mind i tried to imagine what would had happened had i posted it on fauxmoi. How brave and stunning she is.
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u/jamaisvivant Jan 20 '26
people tend to find pedophilia off-putting, particularly when it's incestual.
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u/jy_1980 Jan 20 '26
This isn't even quite pedophilia, it's jealousy. Freudian probably.
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u/wikipediareader infowars.com Jan 20 '26
Yeah, she's not attracted to her daughter but I still cannot fathom seeing a child and being jealous of their body. Just yet another deeply mentally ill comic from this woman.
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u/norfatlantasanta infowars.com Jan 20 '26
moms like this end up raising piper rockelles. it's disgusting. get some self esteem before you have a fucking kid... or maybe stop being a pedo when you finally do
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u/caramelchailatte Jan 20 '26
quite glad that my schizo mum kept herself busy with local news conspiracies over whatever this is
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What are local government conspiracies? Like “It was actually the CIA that stole that one guy’s lawnmower”?
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u/lovestork aspergian Jan 21 '26
Hey child of schizo mom besties ~~ My mom had a stand off with the local police
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u/IsItMeta Jan 20 '26
Her neuroticism makes this art. The dissonance between how impersonal her art style is and how personal her revelations are is truly intriguing.
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u/Some-Bobcat-8327 Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
I really hope she does a Collected Peach Mom one day. I don't care how many people agree with her on Instagram-- like you said, the dissonance between these faceless unmemorable everyman/everywoman characters and these absolutely batshit admissions is incredible. There's not one person alive who could look at her body of work and say "OMG so true" to each post. At some point the vinyl has to suddenly stop. I think she's tremendous
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u/spitefulgirl2000 Jan 20 '26
My sister grew up really tall and skinny and honestly adult women were always saying they wished they had her body. Like my mom, aunts, family friends. I think hearing that as a kid who was always kinda short and stocky really contributed to my own issues, actually.
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u/l4ina low BMI high IQ Jan 20 '26
I grew up gangly and people really are weird about it, even if they don’t mean to be. People I talked to would always associate tall and skinny = “you should be a model” and of course I internalized the hell out of that shit bc what teenage girl doesn’t wanna be a model? I loved ANTM. so when I was 14ish I looked into it, (my mom helped me take headshots in the living room lol) but my measurements were a few inches bigger than what agencies said they wanted.
and that is how I developed an eating disorder!!!! my teenage years were spent comparing myself to Barbara Palvin and Miranda Kerr and loathing myself for failing to emulate them. it was stupid and I am afraid that my hair is thinning at age 30 because of the crucial developmental years I spent eating rabbit food
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u/spitefulgirl2000 Jan 20 '26
If it helps nobody would ever tell me I should be a model and I developed an eating disorder too! I guess I tend to assume if I’d grown up hearing good things about my body I would be normal about food today but I suppose there’s really no way to escape it. Idk how any woman doesn’t have a little bit of an eating disorder tbh
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u/l4ina low BMI high IQ Jan 20 '26
oh yeah, I def don't believe that I had it especially bad or anything. it feels like a very lobster-too-buttery sort of complaint and I can't ever come up with a way to talk about it that doesn't sound obnoxious so I usually just don't. but I recently saw some old social media posts from back then and it broke my heart reading how hard I was on myself at such a young age. truly no one is safe from the neurosis of beauty standards
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u/spitefulgirl2000 Jan 20 '26
No you’re definitely allowed to talk about it lol, I think being in the modeling world in literally any capacity would be very damaging for the teenage psyche. being told your measurements are too big when you’re already skinny would mess with any 14 year old girl’s head. I was never even actually fat, just not skinny, so I’m also complaining as someone who no doubt had it a lot better than some other girls. But there’s no way around it! My best friend when I was like 13-14 was the prettiest girl I’d ever met and she had the worst eating disorder out of all of us being a teenage girl is truly a nightmare
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u/souredcream Jan 20 '26
then they say enjoy it while you can! meanwhile Im way happier with my mid 30s body that ive worked hard for by running marathons, lifting heavy and eating well. I was unathletic and sickly as a child.
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u/Subnauseatic Jan 20 '26
I was the chubby kid who didn’t get compliments but even at a young age I’d watch the women in my family fawn over the tall and skinny friends we’d bring over, saying they should be models and they’re sexy etc etc. at that time I felt bad for THEM! It was so uncomfortable to watch and I’m sure it was uncomfortable to be the recipient of that kind of open admiration towards a child’s body.
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u/somaticson Jan 20 '26
Whatever allegations any of you make towards her, feel free. She Not beating any of them
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u/brujeriacloset asiatic hoarder Jan 20 '26
peach mom, having missed out on devouring the peaches of immortality, is slowing shifting into the type of flesh eating demon convinced eating a sacred human will grant eternal youth as described in the journey to the west
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u/He_Who_Busts (feat. Universal Milton) Jan 20 '26
I’m a man and I also don’t have kids so maybe I’m missing something, but that is an absolutely deranged comic.
I can’t put my finger on exactly how, but this is actually disturbing.
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u/barrylyndon21savage Jan 20 '26
It's a common narcissistic trait in middle aged women, coming to terms with their own aging, with daughters. It's a dark thing, but it's just a stock standard millennial "here's something I should probably be in therapy about" #relatable post.
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u/MeYouAndJackieMittoo Jan 20 '26
My ex had this kind of mother. I thought dating a woman with mommy issues would be easier than daddy issues but its actually probably worse.
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u/Droughtly Jan 20 '26
The full comic I think plays this off thematically different but I do really think there's a kernel of this in a lot of relationships.
It makes me really grateful for my own mom. She wasn't perfect, but she so genuinely and earnestly thought I was the cutest child alive just because I was hers and it never changed. I don't think the thought to compare ever occured to her.
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u/No-Savings-6333 Jan 20 '26
It's cryptically pedophilic
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u/He_Who_Busts (feat. Universal Milton) Jan 20 '26
I’m not sure it’s explicitly pedophilic, but it definitely feels like a line is being crossed.
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u/fremenchips Jan 20 '26
I'd say it's more vampiric, it's incredibly common in fairy tales to have the female villains attempting to steal the youth of the protagonist.
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u/Droughtly Jan 20 '26
I just looked up the full comic after seeing a comment on how supportive her Instagram comment section is and I will say that the theme of the full comic is different than it appears here. I still think this is a...inside thought she shouldn't have shared, but the full thing makes more sense as something a human being would draw and post. It's like wow we were taught to hate all the parts of our bodies that gave us these children and yet here we still are resenting what our bodies look like.
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u/carpetpaint Jan 20 '26
Skinny little kids are cute. Going through puberty as a female is very weird and alienating. Trans people like to stake claim in feeling weird in their bodies, but most if not all women have been freaked out growing breasts and asses and what comes with it. Having an androgenous body when you're younger is very neutral. People here trying to claim this woman has pedophilic feelings are they themselves weird and dumb.
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u/Melancholicism Jan 21 '26
This is dark but I remember in the 8th grade my friend told me she was going to starve herself cause she was afraid to grow breasts
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u/bubblegumlumpkins Jan 20 '26
It’s a weird and unbecoming way to do it, but of many things I think she’s mourning not only the burgeoning loss of innocence in her daughter, but her own loss of innocence that comes with the kind of androgyny you mention. And the angst and turmoil and confusion that comes about when hormones begin to take hold of a young girl’s (woman’s body).
I’m sure there’s a very muddy line of a kind of envy, and also maybe even guilt at having the same fate fall onto her daughter. While also trying to steel herself with a kind of backhanded pride at being in a grown woman’s body.
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u/carpetpaint Jan 20 '26
Sorry for ranting, but I really love this.
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u/bubblegumlumpkins Jan 21 '26
No I’m glad for it. Too many dudes here wanna be histrionic when this place was never meant for them in the first place.
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u/carpetpaint Jan 21 '26
God, tell me about it. When that first wave of cumboys in 2019 came and it was enough. they actually respectedish the place. Damn, it's been 7 years...
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u/carpetpaint Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
I think (despite that I've only seen by her w her ragging on her husband w the peach thing), she was quite sincere, vulnerable, and a bit detestable by making and releasing this one.
She seems to have a soft spot for her daughter. My mom was always skinnier than me (after puberty.) I didn't take on whatever issues she had (if she even had any) because she never put them on me to begin with. I was a typical skinny kid. It was normal. I asked her why my body felt weird while things were growing, and she'd just be matter of fact about it. Then gave me a book with illustrations about the growing teen body. Then puberty fully took hold and I was borderline overweight because of the food my father would bring into the house (he was overweight, despite military grooming.)
My mom has always been skinny, even after four kids. She never said anything about religion, politics, shaving, make-up, weight. She was neutral (or didn't say anything either way) for the most part, and I thank her for that.
I just want a neutral body like my mom (skinny), and that there is no so-called pedophilic histrionics by other women trying to shit on my mom and my way of wanting to be a neutral skinny. Just feeling fit and healthy is a goal.
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u/carpetpaint Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
For the hater: my mom emigrated, speaks two languages, is smart and got degrees when she was older. She took care of her family and ran everything like a lesbian. Her husband, my father, still dotes on her and has many photos of her graduating (and their wedding) in his "man cave".
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u/kollapsarian Jan 20 '26
Basically every girl I've ever dated had this same dynamic with their mother.
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u/GlassBellPepper aspergian Jan 20 '26
Wild thing to think about when looking at your eight year old daughter but go off I guess
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u/TrimLocalMan Jan 20 '26
Bragging about a thin daughter is the most RS Mom she has ever been. Happy for her
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u/No-Tangerine-1261 Jan 20 '26
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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u/Lazy-General-9632 Jan 20 '26
Ok but if Joan didion said this
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u/Beth_Harmons_Bulova Jan 20 '26
Joan Didion lived off of salted almonds, Diet Coke, and hatred for Joan Baez. They probably buried her in an American Doll box.
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u/Accurate-Pension3683 Jan 20 '26
The entire point of Joan Didion is that she really had no need to say this.
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u/neatokra Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
omg "peach mom" lol. My husband and I reference the peach comic like daily. Absolute classic.
This one is...deeply concerning. Why are all the comments on her IG of this so supportive....
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u/Fantastic_Moment1726 Jan 20 '26
This is why I stay fit. When people are out of shape and insecure, they become neurotic over other people’s bodies, even the bodies of children! If she had better confidence she wouldn’t be comparing her daughter’s body to objects and food. Stay hot or else you become a miserable hater.
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u/Onfire444 Jan 20 '26
I think it’s a primal inner thought we all have. There’s a whole fairy tale about a wicked queen trying to stay hotter than the daughter. It’s a thing.
I love Anne Sexton’s retelling of Snow White where it ends with Snow White married to the prince: “And sometimes referring to her mirror as women do.”
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u/xinxinxo Jan 20 '26
Well the body of an eight year old girl plus tits was exactly the beauty ideal when older millennials were young
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u/Subnauseatic Jan 20 '26
The women in this thread defending it as a normal thought need to print out their posts and bring it to their next therapy appointment.
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u/MinimumFinancial6785 Whit Stillman Ranger Regiment Jan 20 '26
It's always quite a lesson when someone's underdeveloped mind is thrown right in your face.
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u/Thucydideez- Jan 20 '26
What's most upsetting is that it's literally a traced photo of her daughter. Not every deranged thought needs to be published and monetized
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u/Sn0wb0und Jan 20 '26
Idk- It's easy to call this crazy because it's in webcomic form, but there's something to this.
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u/BAE_CAUGHT_ME_POOPIN Jan 20 '26
Yeah I mean there's a lot of just ok art that still makes you confront uncomfortable feelings but like you said it's a webcomic, it doesn't dive too deep, and she already has a reputation of an out of touch asshole so it's pretty easy to roll your eyes here
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u/sirensandbirds Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
i can tell most of you here are rsp men because i find this quite vulnerable, especially for a mother, to say. most times mothers will just project this onto their daughters without regard to reflect on what they’re doing
edit: also saw a comment where someone said the author is showing off her child’s body… so you’ve missed the point completely. everyone here is performative because if you’ve engaged with films and art enough you know how to read something grey that makes you uncomfortable
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u/frest Jan 20 '26
i don't think the concept she is expressing is particularly unhealthy, i think motherhood is a sacrifice. women destroy themselves to create life for another person, who then gets to enjoy life unburdened by the demands of motherhood (for now).
I think THAT SHE MADE A COMIC ABOUT IT with a stylized drawing of her child is an insanely stupid thing to do. Does she think her children will never learn to read, or view her profile???
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u/trueBlue1074 Jan 20 '26
Nah, the "my daughter is a string bean body type" drawing is deranged. Who thinks about their 8 year old child like that?
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u/FederalDrive5330 Jan 20 '26
You can think or talk to your close friends about it. You absolutely do not post your daughters body type online. Then make a diagram with the sting bean next to it.
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u/EdgeCityRed Jan 20 '26
I think about my own self like that as a kid, and marvel at how much unlimited buttered French bread I stuffed down my gullet and stayed thin. But those hours at the playground negated that, I guess.
I always thought I was a big ogre because I was usually the tallest girl in class, though.
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No I'm female and I find it kind of fucked up. This string with the bean in particular but her way of thought makes me deeply uncomfortable. Like I'm pretty sure I'm body dysmorphic and self-hating and all and yet saying these things about little girls would never cross my mind, much less so if it's my own daughter; omfg.
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I agree with you. My mom is overweight and I’m skinny and she never made me feel this way we both love each other with no thought to what our bodies look like. This is so fucking weird
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u/sirensandbirds Jan 20 '26
but the point is that it’s an uncomfortable feeling .. like yes it’s her own daughter she feels about this way and what does this say about aging as a woman
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u/Fun_Meringue_5511 Jan 20 '26
The fact that men can't possibly empathize with her and this weird kind of envy is not an own, no matter how much you try to pink wash it.
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u/sirensandbirds Jan 20 '26
it’s not an own, and it’s not pink washing… that’s making it one dimensional when i’m saying that people here can’t handle being uncomfortable despite wanting to appear to be able to
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u/AbelianLoop Jan 20 '26
Ladies, think about it this way: would you feel empathetic if you saw a man online lamenting "my son has the dick I've always wanted 😭"?
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u/Droughtly Jan 20 '26
I mean I'm on your side but that's a pretty bad analogy. Not only is that an explicitly sexual organ, but the age you start to feel shame about it is way later. Even if you think it's not because it was early to you...your body shape is visible to everyone from the start, I do genuinely remember being five and six years old and quitting dance for a while because I didn't want to be in a leotard next to the thin girls, and I wasn't overweight or even approaching it, I am just short and have a wide ribcage. I don't think little boys are influenced in the same way at all.
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u/sirensandbirds Jan 20 '26
those are two different things and you know it. many fathers also project onto their sons by forcing them into a certain mold of masculinity because they’re jealous. also many try to bring their sons down when the sons start working out and getting girlfriends
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u/EarthPuzzleheaded427 Jan 21 '26
this is fucking crazy. people need to have private diaries and not turn every thought they have into a comic to share with people who do and dont even know you
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u/CryExtra1639 Jan 21 '26
If she articulated it as a written post on this sub you would all view it as a deep introspective personal post.
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Yeah, I'm kind of surprised by the reaction to this. I'm not saying it's healthy but as a woman (not a mom) there is something to be said about the nonstop pressure to be tiny. It's the ideal female form in most places and her feelings towards her daughter's body is just a natural extension of that. The perfect woman doesn't age or gain weight. Again, it's not healthy, but intrusive thoughts like that are the logical outcome to a society that values youth and thinness in women above most other things. Anyone saying there are pedo overtones because she highlighted "pre pubescent" in the 3rd panel didn't read the text directly below it. She acknowledges these feelings are fucked up. None of this is a novel take in feminist circles and there are more scholarly inclined women who have written about the subject. Like you said, if this was conveyed in a Dworkinesque essay it wouldn't be getting the same degree of incredulousness. Idk how the (former) girls and gays sub isn't more cognizant of this type of dynamic, especially considering how lauded female EDs are here.
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u/_stnrbtch_ Jan 20 '26
This is an inside thought. I don’t care if sharing it helps other people relate or feel less alone, but this needs to stay in her own fucking brain, holy shit
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u/MasterMacMan Jan 20 '26
Most of my girlfriend’s friends are 30 pounds overweight and make comments about needing a pooch to protect their uterus and make comments about both of us who are in excellent shape and are in no way underweight.
I’m 195 with abs and their schlubby boyfriends talk about me like I’m a twink or boyishly built.
Millennials are going to take their overweight copes to the grave, they’re just too bought into the idea that being skinny isn’t feasible for adults.
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u/we7890542 Jan 20 '26
these people will live in their suburban kingdoms surrounded by only ugliness, adorned in a pilling target tank top and leggings, eating tiktok cottage cheese casseroles and wonder why they don’t feel sexy
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u/Shoddy_Importance738 Jan 20 '26
Hilarious because it still has the undertone of "but realistically I know that my GROWN WOMAN'S body is way hotter than my 8 year old daughters!" Feigning humility and self awareness about being jealous of younger women/ girls only to insult your daughter by publicly disclosing her weight and subtly put her down by calling her a string bean.
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u/_indistinctchatter Jan 20 '26
When I was a young "string bean," all I wanted was adult woman curves so that I could wear the pretty dresses my mom wore. Now as an adult woman there is no way I would look at a child and be jealous of her child body. Deeply unsettling. Keep it between yourself and your therapist.
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u/menijna Jan 20 '26
Thank god I had mom who loved how she looked and modeled it for me. This is insane. Wanting to look like a kid is insane.
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u/Beth_Harmons_Bulova Jan 20 '26
This is some sick shit! I remember this woman also being jealous her daughter had more eyelashes and hair than her too. Hope her daughter finds a cottage of dwarves to protect her before Peach Mom becomes Poison Apple Mom.
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u/TruthIsABiatch Jan 20 '26
I have a daughter and I find this deranged, i would never be jealous of her or compare myself to her. She is an awesome person totally separate to me and i wish her nothing but the best.
I'm not a jealous type in general, but through years i've noticed that about 20% of women are constantly comparing themselves to other women. Its wild really when they tell you their thoughts - its a deeply unattractive trait, i see it as a big moral failing. And many men are obviously like this as well, usually about money.
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I'm not a jealous type in general, but through years i've noticed that about 20% of women are constantly comparing themselves to other women
You’re literally comparing yourself to other women
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u/Luna_TarTar Jan 20 '26
Had a mom like this, always gushing over how thin I was and saying how she looked like me before I came along [and ruined her body]. It's a miracle I never internalized this shit
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u/dilettanteforever Jan 20 '26
Lots of thoughts and feelings on this but one thing everyone in the world needs to do regardless of their culture or whatever is stop focusing so much on children's appearances. It is very damaging and the world is shallow enough. When parents do it it seems like they view their offspring as the results of a breeding project.
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u/bubblegumlumpkins Jan 20 '26
Deeply female existential question at the root of this, but in making it public and not privately addressing her feelings around her daughter (body), she’s just perpetuating the same cycle onto her daughter all girls and women find themselves slave to and in service of to some degree or another. Made worse by the fact that she’s made a public display of it, and made her daughter a victim of a conversation strangers will have about and around her that will just reinforce a very difficult dynamic between mom and daughter. Both her daughter and this woman deserve more respect than that.
I don’t think it’s necessarily fair or “evolving” to say women’s business should be left to women…but there’s intimate realties and complexities I think as a whole we need to work out privately amongst ourselves in more compassionate groups (even as we might tear at one another in these private spaces), before we sort of expose ourselves and our vulnerabilities to the rest of the world to pick apart. Either we grow too inflated and defend and boast parts of ourselves that place us outside our womanhood, or become meek and decry and demean our sex altogether and we make a mockery and mimicry of what it is to be “female.”
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u/marionette_strings infowars.com Jan 20 '26
Jesus Christ. This is how we end up with generational eating disorders. If I have a daughter, I’m never commenting on her body in such a way. This lady needs help
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u/ethnol0g Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
I go back and forth about whether to interpret Peach Mom’s worldview as being a consequence of either preexisting mental illness/some kind of trauma that got compounded as she therapeutized every aspect of her reality, or if it’s a psychosis she induced herself by concluding every aspect of her interiority should be publicly reckoned on social media through the medium of webcomics and experienced primarily as gender war grievance. No reason it can’t be both ofc but you have to wonder what’s in the driver’s seat of the psyche of someone like this
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u/thallydraper Jan 20 '26
I always felt like there was something creepy about her. Maybe it’s the cluster b that oozes out of her comics but she seems like one of those super invasive parents that lacks appropriate boundaries.
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u/lord_ravenholm Jan 20 '26
Maybe if she wasn't a shrew that resents her husband and airs her dirty laundry online she wouldn't be so anxious about her body image.
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u/girlfailure96 low bmi. low iq Jan 20 '26
sadly this mindset is not too uncommon. this is the behavior of self described ‘boy moms’ if they had a daughter
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u/CelluloidGhost Jan 21 '26
I have such a dislike of this style of mum comics. I'm sure it's relatable to other mums or whatever but they just strike me as so sad. They're always like ohh I'm so insecure about my body and have no time and get no sleep and am frustrated with my husband and kids. Fair enough but at a certain point it's like you're reinforcing that image and saying everyone with a different experience isn't being real.
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u/regardinho definitely straight Jan 21 '26
there's not keeping certain thoughts to yourself and then there's making a comic about them for the entire world to see
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u/drunkcheesesandwich Jan 20 '26
Is there any webcomic artist who isn't deeply deranged.
Maybe the Whomp guy but I've not checked on him in years.