Forget the Corporate, Mass-Marketed Ideal of Beauty

Dr. Seuss was a philosopher. How do we know? Because the Seussperts have put together an entire book called Dr. Seuss and Philosophy, to which we owe a lot of credit for our thoughts in this section.

We may not know how Gertrude felt before Lolla-Lee-Lou came flapping around, but we do know she's pretty miserable when she compares herself to her. Yeah, that's because, as we just discussed, self-acceptance can only come from inside and Lolla-Lee-Lou is decidedly on the outside.

But Lolla-Lee-Lou probably is a stand-in for something bigger: those fancy-pants models in the magazine. That kind of unattainable beauty that some big corporation decides is the ideal so the everyday bird feels so bad about herself she works herself up into a panic and flaps off after a remedy… one they just so happen to be selling.

Hey, what can we say? Seuss really didn't like capitalism.