[5K2D]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/articl...ustry.html

I think I want to vomit. Both over the fact that blubber is being pushed as mainstream and the blatant manipulation of public ignorance of statistics (or they don't understand stats themselves).

[Only One Man]

"One, printed alongside a photo of the Russian beauty holding a tape measure across her rear, reads: 'Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less.'"

Well no shit. That's because the average woman is overweight and on her way to obesity. Now I hate the fact that so many runway models are disgustingly skinny, but they should use women who actually have feminine curves and are a healthy weight. I understand that for most women, attaining a runway model body isn't possible, but many of those models are just as unhealthy as the fatties. Why the fuck can't they just encourage women to strive to be healthy instead of "accepting their bodies as they are" which drains the shit out of the healthcare system?

[Excelsior]

Quote:

One, printed alongside a photo of the Russian beauty holding a tape measure across her rear, reads: 'Twenty years ago the average fashion model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, she weighs 23% less.'

Yeah, because the average woman hasn't gotten bigger or anything.

The girl in the photo shoot wasn't that bad looking, but we shouldn't be celebrating her jelly roles as Ideal/healthy, which that daft magazine seeks to do. I am sick of chubby girls taking the term "curvy" (this article talks about the model's "size-12 curves") and appropriating it to describe the rolls of fat on their body when it was originally meant to describe the hourglass (popularized in the USA by the likes of Marilyn Monroe).

Shit like this will continue to gain mainstream attention simply due to demographic and financial reasons. Aging women are more likely to get big, and our population is aging, nevermind the other delusional aspects of our culture promoted to said women (women can delude themselves into believing in the late-30's sexual peak, they can fool themselves into thinking the extra "curves" they get around then are good news too). This means more money for whoever continues trying to print this BS.

Doesn't matter, though-at the end of the day, their place with regards to sexual market value will remain exactly where it is now and always has been: rock bottom. Any man that can do better will, and they'll never be able to change that.

[Timoteo]

I like how they attacked the diet industry, and accuse them of using the fear of fat to actually create unhealthy thin people. The diet industry doesn't care about people losing weight. They care about selling overpriced, pre-prepared foods, and these plans never encourage EXERCISE, as well as diet to aid in losing weight. They tell you you can eat ALL of those things you ate that made you fat in the first place, but OUR versions of these foods will actually help you to magically lose weight while you sit on your fat ass. People drop some initial water weight, then plateau and get discouraged. And go back to eating the version of those foods that made them fat in the first place, and gain back the weight AND then some.

All the "plus size" modeling industry is doing is acknowledging a trend and demographic - people are getting bigger, so a new group we can sell shit to has emerged. To get them to buy, we have to have models that look like them, because how can they buy something that this skinny bitch is wearing? They don't give a fuck about health anymore than the folks in the industry that force the other girls to starve themselves. They just want to make a buck.

[Donald Duck]

I'd rather fuck the "overweight" woman. Did you see the arms if the skinny girl?

[5K2D]

They likely hand-picked that one to look absurdly skinny. Maybe Photoshop, even. That picture was pushing the "models are anorexic" angle.

[Bronan the Barbarian!]

Gross. That hunk 'o lard has rolls on her back. We're supposed to accept this level of blubber as attractive? Give me a fucking break. The bias towards fatties in that article is incredible. Just like Only One Man and Althone said, the average woman is fat and getting fatter, thus the discrepency in model-to-"average" weight ratios.