Quote: (09-28-2015 10:53 AM)Hades Wrote:
Paul Ruben was probably a fat fetishist.
I guess you could always bring up the concept that a lot of paintings back then were of fantastical things like dragons and shit. There would be no need now for Paul Ruben to paint fat bitches because they have since escaped the realm of fantasy to stand in line at the nearest cronut shop or McDumpsters.
Speaking of which if its the medieval ages and you live through times of famine just the concept of fat hoes would represent the easy life with plenty of food to go around and would have precisely fuck all to do with beauty standards. Its a statement of our times and how easy we have it this is what comes to mind when we see these paintings.
So you have to flip the script. You can tell her its her sexist objectification of women slanting her perception into believing rubenesque paintings are about beauty standards when they really represent freedom from want.
Then you can troll her into believing she has to deprogram herself from her internalized misogyny if she wants to see the world as it really is.
You can see a similar effect right now.
In America and Europe, people who have tans are considered attractive whereas in Africa, India, and parts of the Caribbean people with light skin are the ideal. Why? In America everyone works indoors while those in warmer and poorer areas see pale skin as ideal because they work indoors.