robin wilson is "chubby". francine pascal's word, not mine, and by "francine pascal" i mean kate william. weighty issues abound in this book which is laced with really unhealthy messages about weight vs popularity. unlike the last SVH i read, "don't go home with john", which dealt with teen issues in a really classy (well, for SVH) and subtle (well, for SVH) way, this book just didn't ice my proverbial cake.
robin gets blackballed (whatever that is) and even though she did EVERY SINGLE THING the PBA told her to do she still didn't get in because, well, she's chubby.
robin wants to get into pi beta alpha, the hottest sorority on campus, the one that jessica wakefield is president of and the one that liz casually turns up to when something important is going on like voting to get a "chubby" chic membership, because liz is cool like that.
robin basically worships these popular kids, she thinks her whole life is going to be amazing if she can just get popular and get into their club. she follows jess around like a lapdog, picking up her dry-cleaning and doing random chores for her while she's out doing other fun stuff with lila. when liz puts robin forward to be part of the PBA that bunch of skinny bitches go totally power crazy and make robin do like a gazillion embarrassing things from having to spend a day on the beach in a far too small bikini playing beach volleyball to asking bruce patman on a date and they even make her wear short shorts and run around the track every day while people yell out mean things about her size from the sidelines.
robin gets blackballed (whatever that is) and even though she did EVERY SINGLE THING the PBA told her to do she still didn't get in because, well, she's chubby.
seriously, i actually wanted to punch jess in the face, what a bitch. so not cool jess, and even liz doesn't really do much, she just tries to get robin into the sorority and it's like - WHY DO YOU EVEN WANT TO HANG OUT WITH THOSE SKINNY BITCHES WHO ARE TOTALLY MEAN?????
so robin goes like totally depressed but she keeps running round the track and starts eating lettuce leaves (like she ACTUALLY eats just lettuce leaves for lunch)... and after a couple weeks she is suddenly SKINNY and HOT and she got some designer jeans and even bruce patman is like - WHO'S THAT GIRL in those designer jeans? and he almost walks into a wall.
and then the next day she wins the miss sweet valley high beauty contest, or whatever the hell contest it is.
like WHAT????????!!!!!! seriously, what message is this trying to get across to teens? even i was like - OMG i should go running and eat lettuces! then i remembered my bad knees and that i didn't want to be in a sorority so i ate a biscuit.
SORORITIES ARE BAD MMMK? just because you have a few extra kilos doesn't mean you should live off a lettuce leaf. don't get me wrong kids, i'm all for healthy lifestyle and fitness and stuff, but eating a lettuce and working out for like hours every day when you never did a sit up before all because you want to be skinny so that bruce patman walks into a wall is like kind of whack.
*sigh*
2 stars for irresponsible ghost writing.
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