Ted Rall for January 17, 2000
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Welcome to the wonderful world of body dysmorphia. (Woman: There are enough calories in the dirt on the glass of water to make me even fatter than I am now! Aw, hell- I'll just regurgitate it later anyway.) Now there's bigorexia-it causes bodybuilders to think they're thinner than they really are. (Man 1: I taste like cement.) But what about selective body dysmorphic disorder? Who speaks for people who have skewed views of specific body parts? (Woman 2: I'd be hot if I bulked up my tiny left side.) (Man 3: My swollen head would explode if I didn't draw it.) Fortunately, the brain is also a body part. (Man 2: I imagine that my brain is big enough that it can fathom that my feet are not actually 300 feet long. Of course, this is not true, but I'm too dumb to realize it!)