Skinny vs. Curvy, is the beauty industry and media selling an unreal image?
Skinny: media isn't distorted
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Curvy: media is distorted
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You say "curvy," but is what you really mean fat? There's nothing wrong with a little meat, but if we're talking about the fat woman in norbit then that's just wrong. Skinny girls tend to be more athletic, and that's all that really matters in the end. Deathly skinny from undereating is nasty too. But just right are the fit girls. No, I don't think the media is distorted. The media does not decide what is attractive as far as I see - people do. If all the media began portraying obese women as sexy, would everyone follow? I doubt it. They're just trying to sell their products by appealing to what they know people enjoy. 573 days ago
I like girls to be nice and skinny in order for me to be interested in them. I do not like big fat hurtings. Don't get me wrong, a little junk in the trunk is fine but I really don't like fat slobs who cry themselves to sleep every night with a tub of ice cream and complain about the fact that noone likes them because they're fat. 577 days ago
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There is an epidemic spreading across this country: obesity. And while this problem grows (please pardon the pun) our facination with emaciated stars and models increases. But is the media and beauty industry selling our mothers, sisters, and daughters an idea that they can never live up to? I'm a woman with hips and thighs and breasts, I'm very curvy. Often I've felt through out my life that I was somehow inferior because of my weight. That there was less of me to love because there was more of me. Much of this came from beauty magazines, t.v shows and weight loss commercials. The media tried to sell me an aestetic and I bought it hook, line, and sinker. Now I know that only about 1% of every 100,000 people born have the natural body type to be a model. And that the average size in the US is a 16. I'm an 11. Why the hell am I blubbering about? Then I realized, I'm not blubbering because I have a realistic body image. The media and beauty industry have distorted my body image. Size 0 models and perfect bodies don't exist in reality. Especially not in the everyday lives of you and me. And I don't know what you prefer? But more than skinny vs. curvy, I prefer reality instead of fiction. 578 days ago
I don't think it's just Skinny Vs. Curvy. Look at any aspect of the body, and Hollywood has inflated its expectations to ridiculous levels. Watch a movie from any other country, and you can see the difference. Moritz Bleibtreu wouldn't make it far in Hollywood because of his looks, but he's very popular in Germany. 577 days ago
While I agree that this country has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. And that women suffer the brunt of this. And so for what I think you meant by creating this debate, I am in complete agreement with you. The media is a disease in this country that goes well beyond the scope of what we all should look like. But for those who have taken this out of context: The bottom line is...being obese IS unhealthy. And to promote obesity would be counter productive toward a healthier society. People who use drugs or smoke cigerettes are mocked and used as examples of an unhealthy way to live your life. Why should this be any different for those who are overweight? Now, i should follow that up by saying that I think that any kind of mocking is also counterproductive. The solution to obesity is for people to be more knowledgable about what they eat and to stop factory farming, stop the production of corn syrup, and lower the cost of more natural and organic foods...which would happen if everybody would start buying them instead of the crap you get at the store! 576 days ago
There is an epidemic spreading across this country: obesity. And while this problem grows (please pardon the pun) our fascination with emaciated stars and models increases. But is the media and beauty industry selling our mothers, sisters, and daughters an idea that they can never live up to? I'm a woman with hips and thighs and breasts, I'm very curvy. Often I've felt through out my life that I was somehow inferior because of my weight. That there was less of me to love because there was more of me. Much of this came from beauty magazines, t.v shows and weight loss commercials. The media tried to sell me an aesthetic and I bought it hook, line, and sinker. Now I know that only about 1% of every 100,000 people born have the natural body type to be a model. And that the average size in the US is a 16. I'm an 11. Why the hell am I blubbering about? Then I realized, I'm not blubbering because I have a realistic body image. The media and beauty industry have distorted my body image. Size 0 models and perfect bodies don't exist in reality. Especially not in the everyday lives of you and me. And I don't know what you prefer? But more than skinny vs. curvy, I prefer reality instead of fiction. 578 days ago
I suspect the media cultivates a fascination with uncommon people purely because it reduces their scope and increases their control of perceived assets. the media is a business sector like any other and exists for profit. While they will always want to deliver what the paying consumer wants, they will also want to cultivate their market i.e. steer their audience towards extremes or whatever they have best/exclusive/lucrative control over. Sensationalism is a perfect example of this effect. Novelty is the last, dependable card they have left to shake the change from our pockets. In reality, people are different and should be judged by their actions on a case by case basis. Personally, excessively skinny or fat people repel me but then, excessive anything is more likely to repel. Unless it's cheese of course. 576 days ago
In America I believe that we are fatties. The majority that is. So statistically yes, the people that make it on television are generally the in shape pretty ones. If you want to think of it this way, people in America's perception of skinny is just in shape. People say I am skinny, but in actuality I am just tall and in shape. Like any other animal us humans have the ability to look at a person and judge "Wow that chicks hot." Because we are created to mentally judge the best traits for reproduction in the opposite sex. So the reason why men are attracted to women with larger hips is that they are more likely to successfully birth a child. Plus if a women is skinny we might also be attracted to them because say we are out in the plains a long, long time ago you would think "Damn, that girl can make better offspring and she can has the ability to run away from a lion!" I think it just works out so that the pretty, skinny people are the ones that the public want to see in a bikini, and not Rosie O'Donnell. 568 days ago
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