the right hand doesn't know

[adrian_turtle]

I spend a lot of time looking at bulletin boards these days. (Actually, I spend more time looking FOR bulletin boards. Remind me to grumble about their disappearance.) That's why I saw this gem

Comments

[moon_custafer]

Was it a professional-looking poster, or did it seem to have been cut-and-pasted together from stock images and phrases?

[adrian_turtle]

That's a very good question. I wish I'd thought of it at the time, so I could have looked at the poster with the question in mind. The lettering on both sides was the same color, and I think the same style, but (if I remember correctly) the side about the scandalous body used somewhat bigger lettering. It wasn't different enough to strike me as jarring. My own flyers use bigger letters to say I teach math and chemistry than to say I will meet students in Arlington, Belmont, or Cambridge.

[chienne_folle]

Well, most of us are still burdened by the old messages, even as we struggle to think in newer, healthier ways. It's not surprising that this often results in mixed messages.

[adrian_turtle]

I wouldn't have been surprised to see two flyers, one with each message, that just happened to point people to the same pilates school. But this feels like a different thing from "there are many people in this class, and they don't all have the same motives for being here."