Post: #1

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/...681bf5d376

Quote:THE USE of plus-size or ‘realistic’ models in advertising, such as the women seen in the recent Australian Target catalogue or Dove commercials, are being linked to poor health choices and rising obesity rates among consumers.

According to a study out of Simon Fraser University in Canada, and published in the American Marketing Association’s Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, advertising campaigns that lean towards using ‘plus-size’ models are having a “detrimental” effect on the public’s lifestyle and eating behaviour.

Quote:Speaking to news.com.au, lead author and associate professor of Marketing at California State University, Dr Lily Lin said the reason for the poor health choices are because of the use of reassuring slogans such as ‘real’ and ‘normal’ next to ‘plus-size’ models.

“We were noticing more and more of these types of ads being used in the marketplace. At the same time, we continued to hear about the rising rate of overweight and obese people in much of the western world,” Lin said.

“In one of the experiments, participants were given 3 advertisements. One ad had a plus-size model with an accepting slogan, one was just an image of a plus size model and the third had no model at all.

“Participants filled out questions about their evaluation of each ad, including how they felt about exercise and food choices based on what they saw in the advertisement. The participants were required to select food items in response to each variant of the ad, and when we summed up the number of foods selected by the groups, the women who saw the ad with the ‘normal’ or ‘real’ body slogans made higher calorie and poorer exercise choices.”

The study had a total of 1,032 participants across the 5 studies that were conducted for the research. The participants were randomly assigned to different conditions in each of the studies, so there was no difference in BMI between the different conditions. Dr Lin said that the participants’ own BMIs also did not have significant effects on the results.

Once again: advertising companies have no interest in actually changing beauty standards. They are only interested in widening their customer demographic. As Last Psychiatrist says: "If you've seen the ad, it's for you."

Didn't take long for the rationalisation hamsters to start whirling, of course.

From a fat fuck model who profits from making women even fatter:

Quote:Speaking to news.com.au, Australian ‘plus-size’ model Laura Wells said despite not agreeing with all results from the study, she understood the problem around the use of words such as ‘real’ or ‘normal’ in advertising.

“I understand the problem when using the world ‘real’ and ‘normal’ on images, regardless of the models size,” Laura said.

“Everyone is real. Normal comes with what you choose is normal, so I understand that part of the study.

“My job and title is plus size. I’m 23 BMI and size 14. To identify a ‘plus-size’ model as encouraging obesity is where I don’t agree with the study.

“Throughout my career, the amount of messages I receive from people who have used images of me to lead a healthier life, and love their body. I’ve seen people accept who they are and be the best they can,” she said.

“I encourage people to drop those terms, like ‘real’ or ‘curves,’ because for me everyone is different and that’s the beauty of the world. We don’t and can’t all look the same,” she said.

In terms of the participants who took part in the study, Laura questioned what their usual food and lifestyle choices were outside the focus group.

Nobody cares whether you agree with the study or not, you fat bitch. You're not a scientist. You're not qualified to judge it or disagree with it.

And one of the pigpen keepers, er, model management people:

Quote:Catherine McGill, General Manager of Vivien’s Model Management, was surprised by the study, saying the use of a ‘real’ sized women had been a welcome change to the industry over the past few years.

“I find it very pleasing when advertisers use different size shapes,” Mrs McGill told news.com.au.

“I prefer to see a retailer or advertiser, like Target or Myer, use a range of models. Earlier this year, The Upside activewear did the same thing and I think that’s really good. Either extreme isn’t a good thing, but a range of normal body shapes is representative of the community,” she continued.

“The use of the words ‘normal’ or ‘real’ is accurate and factual. So that’s what surprises me, and is what I find hard to understand a link between the two [bad health trends and accepting slogans]. I think there may be other factors that play in to it.

“Skinny models encourage anorexia, and now using ‘real’ and ‘normal’ models encourage obesity. You can’t win,” she said.

This one is basically the pimp for fat bitch models. Of course she's going to defend her massive stable. And again she just spurts out there that "other factors may play into it." What, one wonders, is her qualification to say that?

And even the eating disorders foundation isn't prepared to say "Yep. Fat bitches should not be modelling.":

Quote:In response to the study, Australia’s The Butterfly Foundation said the focus needs to be shifted away from weight, and refocused on health and physical wellbeing.

“At a time when eating disorders are affecting close to one million Australians, The Butterfly Foundation feels there needs to be a strong focus on health, not weight and that equal consideration should be given to the social, emotional and physical aspects of health,” the foundation’s CEO, Christine Morgan told news.com.au.

“Our environment is currently filled with subconscious messages about idealised beauty, body shape and size. People of all ages are bombarded with images that often promote unrealistic, unobtainable and highly stylised appearance ideals which have been fabricated by stylists and digital manipulation and cannot be achieved in real life.

“Those who feel they don’t measure up in comparison to these cultural ideals can experience intense body dissatisfaction which is damaging to their psychological and physical wellbeing. “These high levels of body dissatisfaction and weight concerns are also leading to an increasing number of men and women engaging in disordered eating behaviours,” she said.

Yeah, let's just not tell people "you are too big to be healthy." Let's focus on "health", whatever that is, not weight -- never mind that when you're young, your body can take more abuse healthwise, but that abuse comes back to haunt you later on.

Post: #2

WNB, WNB, WNB, WNB, WB, WNB, WB, WNB, WNB, WNB, WNB

Post: #3

Women don't rely on sciences... That's the problem

Post: #4

TLP's article on the Dove beauty sketches is one of my favorites. If you like any of these quotes, you'll probably love the article.



"Oh my God," you might say, "I know it's just an ad, but it's such a positive message."

If some street hustler challenges you to a game of three card monte you don't need to bother to play, just hand him the money, not because you're going to lose but because you owe him for the insight: he selected you. Whatever he saw in you everyone sees in you, from the dumb blonde at the bar to your elderly father you've dismissed as out of touch, the only person who doesn't see it is you, which is why you fell for it. Even mirrors fail you."


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"And nothing makes a middle aged neurotic happier than 45 minutes alone in a loft with a good looking man who requires no sexual contact and just wants to listen to you talk about yourself, unless he's also sketching you attentively in natural light. "Can I offer you a Pinot Grigio?" Slow down, Christian, you're making me woozy. There is not enough quantitative easing in the universe to prop up this fantasy, but at $3000000000000 you can't say America's not committed to the attempt."


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"It seems crazy to worry about how beauty is portrayed on TV and ads when there are blonde billions (rated on a scale of one to ten) getting double penetrated literally underneath your gmail window, but that obsessive worry about what's on TV or what's in an ad is completely predicated on the assumption that the ad, the media, has all the power to decide what's desirable. And therefore, of course, it does. But the important point is not that you believe this to be true, the point is that you want this to be true. You want it to be true that advertising sets the standard of beauty because in the insane calculus of your psychology you have a better chance of changing Dove than you have of changing yourself, turns out that's true as well."

Post: #5

How do I know aliens don't exist?

Cause this planet is more 'ripe for the picking' than ever.
Yet the aliens are nowhere to be found...

Post: #6

(12-16-2015 10:32 AM)Aquiles_Baesta_Parada Wrote:  

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I didn't know being seven feet tall was a "realistic" body type for women.

Maybe it's the backdrop but they all look like they're giants, especially the monsters at the ends.

Post: #7

(12-16-2015 06:10 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  How do I know aliens don't exist?

Cause this planet is more 'ripe for the picking' than ever.
Yet the aliens are nowhere to be found...

I believe aliens exist.

Think about this for a moment here. In our own solar system we have found terrestrial bodies that meet the conditions necessary for life to form on them.

In other solar systems we have found planets that are in the Goldilocks zone like earth is that could most likely harbor life forms.

Now the big problem here is that if there are advanced civilizations in the universe that are similar to ours, getting here is very challenging. Even finding our planet is extraordinarily difficult. Think about this, our own galaxy has thousands upon thousands of stars separated by light years of distance. Not only would an advanced civilization have to find our planet like a needle in the haystack, they need to get here.

In terms of physical speed, these advanced civilizations would be limited by the speed of light. According to general relativity that is the max speed that an object can move through space and a physical object can only get exponentially close to that speed. If the planet was 10,000 light years away, it would take 10,000 years to get here at the fastest possible speed. The only other method would be by traveling through wormholes and that is purely speculation at this point since wormholes arose through the mathematical models that have been created to describe the physics of space.

Alien life coming here would be an incredible scientific feat and one that no civilization (if they exist) may have achieved by this point since the big bang.

I will add that not everything I just said is *not* technically correct (not extremely well versed in physics), but that is why I believe we have not seen alien life from an advanced civilization created on another planet at this point in time.

Edit: added *not*

Post: #8

As Heartiste would say

<3 SCIENCE! <3

Post: #9

(12-16-2015 10:32 AM)Aquiles_Baesta_Parada Wrote:  

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I'm not gonna say they're amazing beauties, but at least they all have toned stomachs and aren't whale like. I'd say most of them are "average"-ish looking.

Post: #10

(12-17-2015 08:18 AM)Tytalus Wrote:  I'm not gonna say they're amazing beauties, but at least they all have toned stomachs and aren't whale like. I'd say most of them are "average"-ish looking.

If 5 and 7 from the left had appealing demeanor, I WB and then get an agreement from them to get on an exercise program and work off the reasons why they were selected for the photo they are in.

Post: #11

(12-17-2015 08:18 AM)Tytalus Wrote:  

(12-16-2015 10:32 AM)Aquiles_Baesta_Parada Wrote:  

WNB, WNB, WNB, WNB, WB, WNB, WB, WNB, WNB, WNB, WNB

I'm not gonna say they're amazing beauties, but at least they all have toned stomachs and aren't whale like. I'd say most of them are "average"-ish looking.

7th from the left seems to actually have a pretty decent figure, and she has a pretty face. most of these girls could be quite attractive if they were to put down the starbucks and lift like a man.

Post: #12

^ Fully agree. Anyone who gives a blanket WNB must be Christiano Ronaldo and literally drowning in pussy.

Post: #13

Australian Target is run my radical feminists here. You wouldn't see me dead in their stores. They banned GTA5 a couple years ago!

They even banned Roosh which says allot about how fucked my country has become!

Post: #14

WB all of those girls. There are a bunch of nice one's in there. There is fat and there is thick. Who wants a stick figure. Honestly guys...

Post: #15

(02-13-2016 04:19 PM)Uzisuicide Wrote:  WB all of those girls. There are a bunch of nice one's in there. There is fat and there is thick. Who wants a stick figure. Honestly guys...

Even Shrek-ess on the far left and Mrs Predator far right?

I could never be that horny...

Post: #16

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