Post: #1

Saw this doing the rounds:
https://onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/perce...erfection/

Quote:How do perceptions of beauty vary across the globe?

From that simple question, the idea for this study was born. We asked female graphic designers from around the world to Photoshop a female form by making her, in their opinion, more attractive to other citizens of their country.

Widely held perceptions of beauty and perfection can have a deep and lasting cultural impact on both women and men. The goal of this project is to better understand potentially unrealistic standards of beauty and to see how such pressures vary around the world.

The resulting submissions are intriguing.



As you can see, our designers’ changes made some of these images almost unrecognisable compared with the original photo. While some remained largely similar with the exception of slight slimming, others resemble a new woman altogether. Drastic changes in hair colour, attire, and waist-to-hip ratio were common. Some designers in North, South, and Central American countries produced an exaggerated hourglass figure; others in European and Asian nations chose to render her so thin that her estimated BMI, according to a survey we conducted (described below), would fall under or dangerously close to 17.5. According to the NHS, “Adults with anorexia generally have a BMI below 17.5.”

Given the wide range of body sizes submitted, we wondered what these women might actually weigh in the real world. We ran a brief survey with a 35-person sample and, assuming a height of 165 centimeters, asked participants to guess the weight of the woman in each Photoshopped image. We then calculated her BMI based on average weight data.

China and Italy had the thinnest submissions, weighing in at an estimated 7.28 and 7.71 stones respectively. Spain had the heaviest submission at 10.93 stones, while China had the lightest (7.28 stones), which translates to an estimated BMI of 17. As noted above, according to the NHS, this qualifies as anorexic.

We contracted with 18 freelance designers and gave them the following general instructions:

Photoshop her form. The idea is to Photoshop and retouch this woman to make her more attractive to the citizens of your country. We are looking to explore how perceptions of beauty change across the world. Multiple designers are involved. You can modify clothing, but her form must be visible. No nudity. All other changes, including those to her shape and form, are up to you.

We focused on female designers, as we wanted a woman’s view of what her culture finds attractive and to understand more about the pressures they face. However, in order to get entries from more countries, we accepted contributions from four men with the caveat that they first seek input from women and base their design changes on this feedback.

We used three designers from international locales with whom we were already acquainted, but most of the artists featured were contracted via freelance job boards. We attempted to get as wide a spread as possible across the world, but many countries are poorly represented on these job boards, particularly when it comes to female designers. We also had issues finding interested artists in some countries due to the amount of skin shown on the model.

Since what is perceived as beautiful can vary substantially around the world, our study of the ideal body image attempted to compare as diverse opinions as possible. We located designers from 18 nations spanning five continents, including North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

“Beauty cannot be judged objectively, for what one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another,” so says the dictionary. And the range of depictions found in our study appears to confirm this notion.

While beauty can come in many forms, and we suspect that people will forever chase these assorted ideals of perfection, Superdrug Online Doctor commissioned this study to explore how such ideals vary across borders.

Great, more women telling men what we should find attractive. Everyone here knows they can bleat on all they want about what is beautiful, but mass media and viral bullshit will never defeat a man's ingrained biological programming.

By definition, what makes one person attractive is their ability to draw attention from another person. In this case, a woman getting the attention of men. For a woman to say "I think I'm beautiful and attractive and I don't care what anyone else thinks (I'm beautiful because I exist)" means there is no man's attention involved, ergo she is not 'attracting' anything.

Ignoring the face, I like Italy.

Post: #2

Why is she still fat in most of the countries? Is the Colombian designer really saying Colombians want a beast? Bullshit. This is skewed by choosing designers that are feminist sympathizers. They knew what this was about by the fact they were given a fat woman to start with, so they likely didn't want to shave off too much so as not to "offend". Except for Italy. They're the only one telling the truth.

The only way this could be done without influencing the outcome (which happened by supplying a fat woman to start with, and choosing female designers) is to let them start completely from scratch on their own. As is, this is just skewed nonsense.

All this is is a chance for fat women to lash out and try to tell men what they should like, not represent what they do actually like.

Post: #3

ONE female designer is now considered a representative sample in a country of 50, 100 or 1000 millions of people?

Now I've seen everything

Post: #4

I'm a little surprised the US version isn't the beast in the original picture.

Post: #5

This is more of a testament to the quality of female photoshoppers.

Post: #6

Venezuela's got some linebacker shoulders.

Post: #7

Why did they choose a hambeast in the first place?

They really should just choose the top model from each county and that would be the ideal look. Have the men in that country vote for the top model to represent the country.

No need for photo shop some ugly girl which is what they seem to always do this.

Post: #8

This is like when they do surveys of the best places to live and raise children.

They always pick Sweden or some other place dominated by feminist policies without ever factoring the endless winters and biting cold. Of course people live in cold climates but San Diego is pretty darned nice year round!!

Post: #9

Syria? Where the fuck did they find Syrians to take part in this shit?

Post: #10

(08-16-2015 03:03 PM)CH-Toronto Wrote:  This is more of a testament to the quality of female photoshoppers.

In my opinion, this is a classic example of social self-censoring. Everyone knows that slim women are seen as attractice. But in our times, this seems to be a truth which is almost forbidden.

For the people of this experiment as well. The concept is just ridiculous. Why should they give a women a say about how women themselves think about their own attractiveness?

Pictures of fat women do not change the truth. There is a certain waist to hip ratio that men just prefer, find attractive, and that is around 0.7 to 1. And it has been found out that this opinion is spread around the globe.

BMI and standards of beauty

Telegraph article about beauty

Science says fat women are seen as uattractive

Post: #11

As stupid as this is, notice none of them revert back to the original (fat) picture.

Post: #12

China keeping it real, you gotta love that country.
And when it comes to good design and sensual curves, you can´t bullshit the Italians.

Post: #13

We can easily outdo this with an RVF version.

Guys here are from and have been to many different countries and have interacted with maybe even hundreds of thousands of women.

Ask guys from each country their own preferences, and ask widely-traveled members which girls in which country they liked the best.

Post: #14

^^^ Ha. I think this is a few years old. I remember seeing it somewhere before, maybe on Heartiste. Either that or Deja Vu.

Only one looks like it is anywhere near the same size as the originally hamplanet. Even then, it still looks thinner. Lol at Italy.

Post: #15

You would only find this image if you searched for "beautiful LARGE woman posing in lingerie".

Notice all the fit bodies in the Similar Images section at the bottom.


http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-18429117...ecQ-1&ws=1

Built in bias much?

Post: #16

I think this is testing more "how much photoshopping does each country think is acceptable" more than "what is each country's ideal look." I doubt the Spanish designer thought Spaniards would prefer her image over the Italian. I think it probably just didn't occur to the Spanish designer to make such radical changes.

Post: #17

(08-16-2015 02:54 PM)spi Wrote:  

Quote:We focused on female designers, as we wanted a woman’s view of what her culture finds attractive and to understand more about the pressures they face. However, in order to get entries from more countries, we accepted contributions from four men with the caveat that they first seek input from women and base their design changes on this feedback.

Out of billions of people representing countries across the world, they couldn't find enough female designers and had to recruit men.

Post: #18

Meanwhile, the perception of male perfection is a Men's Fitness cover model who drives a Maserati, writes poetry like Dylan Thomas, plays a guitar like Eric Clapton, cooks like Thomas Keller, and is more handy than Bob Villa.

Post: #19

What makes this especially stupid is each country already has a plethora of hot models to hold up as their perception of perfection. There's no need to photoshop some dumpy bitch.

Colombia:



Mexico:



China:


Phillipinnes:

Post: #20

Start with this broad, maybe add bigger boobs.



Go here for a better shot of her.

http://imgur.com/gallery/fBlyuAF

Post: #21

^^^^ God damn!

Captainstabbin, I fucking love you dawn.

Post: #22

I think my "fataphobia" is getting more and more extreme.

If those girls were real, Italy and China's submissions would be the only two I would even consider as human beings.

Post: #23

Every time I see these articles, I dont even make it past the title before I know the this is an article made by fat women, trying to make other fat women be happy about being fat.

Post: #24

(08-16-2015 03:00 PM)GlobalMan Wrote:  Why is she still fat in most of the countries? Is the Colombian designer really saying Colombians want a beast? Bullshit.

These results reflect a culture's work ethic more than anything.

The Colombian took the assignment and phoned it in. Touched up the end of the hair a bit. Processed it to lighten (the skin, but also the background). Then submitted it to get paid.

(08-16-2015 03:00 PM)GlobalMan Wrote:  The only way this could be done without influencing the outcome (which happened by supplying a fat woman to start with, and choosing female designers) is to let them start completely from scratch on their own. As is, this is just skewed nonsense.

Post: #25

deleted