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What woman doesn't love being reminded by a snack food ad that being thin is the ultimate female achievement? In their new and insultingly offensive ad campaign, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps is betting the house on the fact that we're all just dying to be skinny, with slogans like "you can never be too thin" (it turns out you can). Now, in response to the naturally outraged cries of women stoked on their non-skinny bodies, the company has launched a website reminding everyone to "Lighten up, it's a pretzel ad." Hot tip for Snack Factory's marketing team: try not to make your target demographic hate you.  

Mom always said not to judge a book by its cover, but when that book is by Tina Fey, and that cover features the 30 Rock star with gigantic man hands, it's hard to resist. A sneak peek of the cover of her forthcoming book, titled Bossypants, reveals a demure Fey in a typical thoughtful author pose, but with enormous, hairy masculine forearms in place of her own. It's both gross and fabulous, which, knowing Fey, is exactly what she was aiming for.

It pains us to report this, but a recent study has found that skinny women make more money then heavier women. For men the inverse is true, with thin men make less than heavier men.