Is that Burger a Manwich?

The X Men, in case you didn’t know, are a group of super hero mutants with amazing talents, like  being super smart, or really strong, or whipping up storms from nothing.  Want to see one of the X Men use her super mutant powers for something amazing? YES!   Here’s Mystique using her power as a shape shifter to …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJs8zC-AnQk

….wait, did she just turn into a man so she could eat a hamburger?  Is that a superpower now?  If so, call me Xmntks–I have been known to eat a burger!

Next time you’re munching through some time with TV, take a look at who gets to eat what foods.    If you are reading this and your 23rd chromosome reads XX, then let me give you a heads up–chocolate.

Chocolate is totally okay for women to eat.  Someone should tell this woman: “Mon Deiu!  Should I wear this, or eat this?  Sigh…”

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It is also TOTALLY okay to have any kind of chocolate that will make your monstrous body smaller.

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It is also okay to replace sex with eating chocolate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-1_CS75zQ

So, ladies, eat all the chocolate you want as long as you don’t get fat, and you don’t eat MAN FOOD:

Seriously, why is it that  ads encourage women to have all sorts of indulgent moments eating chocolate, but when it comes to real food, women have to shape shift to get a burger down?

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Author: Susan X Jane

Susan X Jane, Principal of Navigators Consulting, has over 30 years of experience exploring race and representation in both the public and private sectors.  Susan is a transracial adoptee—a Black woman raised in a White family and community—an experience that created an early focus on the way race shapes our concept of ourselves and each other. Susan has worked to address race and racism as a community organizer, nonprofit program developer, professor of communications, and consultant to corporations and impact-focused institutions.  As Principal of Navigators Consulting, she draws on decades of experience to work with organizations in the public and private sectors. To any who seeks to build a better world, she offers her skills as a teacher, coach, and strategic partner to help create diverse and inclusive environments where the humanity of all is respected and protected.

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