TIWWDN supports your right to bear curves
I've been enjoying Dove's latest series of print ads, The Campaign for Real Beauty. It's incredibly refreshing to see a company promoting real women with breasts and not some disgusting heroin-addicted anorexic models. To this day I've never fully understood why society considers skin and bones as the be-all end-all of beauty, while a few extra pounds are viewed as completely unacceptable. This irrational line of thinking has forced many a young woman to panic about their body type and battle anorexia and/or bulimia in an attempt to mold themselves into something they're probably not supposed to be.Who the hell finds anorexic women attractive? Would you rather have this or this? It's not even a competition. I'm not advocating obesity by any stretch of the imagination, as exercise and a healthy diet are a vital part of one's daily routine, but I don't know too many guys who have a problem if a woman has a few extra pounds, and I've never met a guy who didn't like a large set of breasts and a nice, curvy ass on a relatively compact frame. We all know curves come with some extra pounds. If you like your woman's body to resemble that of a 14-year-old boy, that's certainly your prerogative, but ultimately a diet of nothing but semen and cocaine is going to catch up to you eventually.
In any event, cheers to Dove for recognizing that beauty comes in many forms.
posted by TIWWDN at 7:28 AM
12 Comments:
I def agree with Doves representation of beauty with anorexia...however I certainly feel that there is NOTHING wrong with a cocaine semen diet...i'd take humslinger and a line of white ANYDAY
sorry, i meant beauty WITHOUT anorexia not with...fuck being anorexic
might wanna get the link right, tough guy
i dunno larry. I used to be all about the big boobies when i was younger. But these days I say, tits are for kids.
All other things equal, now I'd rather have the thin girl than the girl with a few exra pounds and a huge rack. Call me crazy...
Not an endorsement of the anorexic look of lindsay lohan these days, tho.
This post is a blatent attempt to curry favor with the female population.
That's fine if you think those girls are attractive, but if you saw someone like that at the beach in a bathing suit then don't make any negative comments. Girls try to be skin and bones because guys are so critical most of the time.
That sounds all well and good, but I can't help but agree with Mr. Anonymous above. There's a reason why women are suuuper self conscious about their weight and the problem did not begin within the female gender, but rather stemmed from comments and perceptions of men...probably like yourself (don't deny the fat jokes, you've got plenty right here in your own site). I would love to witness you lovin up some chunkier woman in a bar, with all her rolls, backfat and love handles in the right places. Sure you may not want anorexic women, but you love them thin and fit women.
From what I see and hear, it is women who are harsher and meaner to each other about weight issues than guys ever are to women. I'm also not going to insinuate anything about Derek's interest in skinny girls who look like little boys... (like Leslie said, this is an attempt to win over the female population, especially those with a nice pair of...
Tall, thin and fit, Neil!!!!
right on. that dove ad is near my work and i love it. kinda puts jane magazine in a new light, since jane always claims they use real-looking models. jane needs to take a lesson from dove.
Hell Id do all of them up the ass
A few points:
1. The two girls you picked as examples are, respectively, a very thin girl with large breasts, and a girl who will likely die of a malnutrition heart attack like karen carpenter. Most girls are not as slender as girl #1 (was that lindsay lohan?), much less girl #2 (buttugly anorexic).
2. girls who obsess over their weight are masochistic morons. so "society and magazines and tv shows and men expect us to look a certain way" and blah blah, get over it already. no one tells you that you have to buy those stupid fashion magazines. try some real literature. no one tells you that your hobbies have to be dieting and exercising. try playing guitar or softball or pick up a fun new drug habit. just stop being a typical boring bitch with your "mani-pedi's" and "pilates". maybe then a guy will do something other than fuck you and then never call you again..because you'll actually be an INTERESTING PERSON.
3. most of these pathetic diet obsessed girls date the UGLIEST men in the world. they claim they are heterosexual (no lesbian would ever be stupid enough to act like these pathetic chicks), yet they date UGLY MEN and spend all their time critiquing other girls' looks and papering their bedrooms with pictures of FEMALE models. if they like men, why don't they think about MALE beauty for a change instead of obsessing about their own as compared with other girls' looks?
4. the dove campaign for "real beauty" is far from radical. these women are all thin, curvy, attractive, women. if they wanted to be radical, they'd have a fat woman, an old woman, a woman in a wheelchair, a woman who had breast cancer, a woman who looks boyish, etc. which brings me to my final point...
5. there is no 'real beauty' or 'fake beauty'. everyone (at least those of us who aren't bleating sheep) finds different things beautiful. unfortunately, bleating sheep run the world. i wouldn't fuck paris hilton if she was the last girl on earth, and i think "ugly betty" is cute. i find angelina jolie to be gorgeous (although she'd be hotter if she was five foot two, i think petite girls are hot, tall girls turn me off), and i think jennifer aniston looks like miss piggy. I think models look like drag queens, i think pamela anderson looks like a poodle's vagina, and i think scarlett johanson is hot. my point: beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. another reason for girls to shut up about 'beauty standards'...those of us with brains all have different views on beauty.
6. I know i've been blaming STRAIGHT girls for most of this because i believe their own bitchy looks obsession brings the whole thing on themselves, but i do have a bit of nastiness to hurl at men, too. here's the deal, guys: next time you're ragging on a girl's appearance, i want you to look at yourself in the mirror. Look at your big guy nose, the pubic hair growing on your face that you call 'stubble', your beady eyes, your wrinkles, your boring short haircut that looks like every other guy. Why don't you dye your hair, or do something interesting with it? How about your fat legs, your nasty back hair, your boring baggy unstylish clothing? How much of a looker are you? Want to critique women's appearance? Then spend a bit more time on your own.
7. GUYS AND GIRLS: Women, naturally, have ten percent more body fat than men. Women are naturally "curvy"--let's put it bluntly: Look at art prior to this century. Women, without starving and exercising, are NATURALLY "FAT" by society's standards. GAY MEN run the fashion and entertainment industry, so the nation's "most beautiful women" look like hairless, titted men (tall, skinny, sharp featured) because that's what the gay men prefer. Therefore, girls, if you want to look like a 'model', then you should have been born a handsome boy who would make a hell of a drag queen. Maybe you should get a sex change--testosterone will get rid of all that female body fat. Guys who love models: you should begin dating post-op transsexuals, because they are the closest thing in figure and face to a model. Or you should re-examine your sexual preference. Those who like WOMEN tend to find models very unwomanly--too tall, angular, and skeletal. I know I do, as do most of my friends who aren't gay men or closet cases.
As a lipstick lesbian who only dates other lipstick lesbians, I believe I have unique insight into both women AND men. I understand men's desire for women and I understand what it is to grow up female. My views are harsh, but proven.
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