Mermaid or Whale?

This was worth repeating, thanks Mary!

Recently, in a large city in Australia ,                 
 a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym.                                   
                           It said, "This summer,                          
                  do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"                 
                                                                           
                            A middle-aged woman,                           
   whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the  
                                  poster,                                  
                     responded publicly to the question                    
                             posed by the gym.                             
                                                                           
                          To Whom It May Concern,                          
   Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, sea lions, curious   
                                  humans.)                                 
                       They have an active sex life,                       
                get pregnant and have adorable baby whales.                
 They have a wonderful time with dolphins stuffing themselves with shrimp. 
                      They play and swim in the seas,                      
                 seeing wonderful places like  Patagonia ,                 
                               the Bering Sea                              
                    and the coral reefs of  Polynesia .                    
                        Whales are wonderful singers                       
                        and have even recorded CDs.                        
                       They are incredible creatures                       
                      and virtually have no predators                      
                             other than humans.                            
                   They are loved, protected and admired                   
                      by almost everyone in the world.                     
                                                                           
                           Mermaids don't exist.                           
                             If they did exist,                            
                they would be lining up outside the offices                
                       of Argentinean psychoanalysts                       
                   due to identity crisis. Fish or human?                  
                         They don't have a sex life                        
 because they kill men who get close to them, not to mention how could they
                                 have sex?                                 
                     Just look at them ... where is IT?                    
                  Therefore, they don't have kids either.                  
                              Not to mention,                              
                who wants to get close to a girl who smells                
                             like a fish store?                            
                                                                           
                    The choice is perfectly clear to me:                   
                           I want to be a whale.                           
                                                                           
                           P.S. We are in an age                           
                       when media puts into our heads                      
  the idea that only skinny people are beautiful, but I prefer to enjoy an 
                         ice cream with my kids, a                         
  good dinner with a man who makes me shiver, and a piece of chocolate with
                                my friends.                                
                         With time, we gain weight                         
     because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads     
                      that when there is no more room,                     
               it distributes out to the rest of our bodies.               
                            So we aren't heavy,                            
                        we are enormously cultured,                        
                            educated and happy.                            
                              Beginning today,                             
             when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think,            
                     ¨Good grief, look how smart I am!¨