Comment by Gud

Comment by Gud 2 days ago

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What are these extremes beauty standards being promoted?

Because it seems to me large swaths of the population need some beauty standards

sejje 2 days ago

Yes, but you're not allowed to say that to them.

They are victimized by the fact that models are attractive, and that is "unrealistic," so they've been getting plus sized models etc.

The "extreme beauty standards" are basically just "healthy BMI."

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novemp a day ago

Anorexia is overrepresented in both male and female models.
To get that "ripped" look so many "fit" guys have, they often have to be dehydrated.
Actresses wear full faces of makeup even in apocalyptic scenarios.
It goes way beyond "just don't be fat".

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- sejje a day ago
  
  It does, but the remedy they choose is not "women don't wear makeup," it's "we use fat women, and they wear more makeup than skinny women."
  
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  novemp 21 hours ago
  
  Including plus-size models doesn't fix the problem, but it's also not bad to have models show fat people "this is what our clothes could look like on your body". That's a logical choice under capitalism if you want fat people to buy your clothes.
  
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