Smoking is a bad analogy because, unlike obesity, it directly affects the people around the smoker. However, let's run with it. When a smoker buys cigarettes, there's a warning on every pack. Sure, they ignore them, but they don't try to fool themselves into thinking that smoking is GOOD for them or healthy.
The tendency that is highlighted in these ads is essentially trying to say that there isn't anything wrong with being obese, but there is, and the statistics are as unequivocal as they are with respect to smoking.
I'm not saying that fat people don't have a right to wear bikinis. I'm just saying this ad is wilfully deceptive and trying to reinforce a false notion - that obesity is not a problem. It's no different than the old cigarette commercials from the first half of the Twentieth Century.
The tendency that is highlighted in these ads is essentially trying to say that there isn't anything wrong with being obese, but there is, and the statistics are as unequivocal as they are with respect to smoking.
I'm not saying that fat people don't have a right to wear bikinis. I'm just saying this ad is wilfully deceptive and trying to reinforce a false notion - that obesity is not a problem. It's no different than the old cigarette commercials from the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Bikinis for well endowed women
- 14/09/2011 04:19:39 PM
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Well done on the double post
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- 14/09/2011 04:31:36 PM
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- 14/09/2011 04:31:36 PM
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The woman on the right is just fat, probably dangerously so. *NM*
- 14/09/2011 06:29:07 PM
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Would not having a well fitting bikini top make her magically lose weight?
- 14/09/2011 07:18:49 PM
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I protest the "I'm okay, you're okay" drivel inherent in the statement "plus-size".
- 14/09/2011 08:30:34 PM
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I agree with you on this.
- 14/09/2011 08:37:50 PM
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It's not that they're real and you're not. It's that they're real *too*.
- 14/09/2011 09:15:24 PM
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I get that. But that's not what they say. And it's not just an advertising campaign.
- 14/09/2011 09:35:03 PM
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They have to over emphasize that it's ok precisely because society keeps saying that it's not
- 14/09/2011 08:51:03 PM
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But it ISN'T
- 15/09/2011 03:26:43 AM
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I agree and disagree
- 14/09/2011 09:53:01 PM
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I don't mind the directness, I want someone to engage/argue with me.
- 14/09/2011 10:37:02 PM
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That would be me.
- 15/09/2011 03:07:19 AM
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Your friend sounds hot.
- 15/09/2011 05:38:18 AM
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There's still a bit of fat on him, but yes, he's becoming much more attractive. *NM*
- 15/09/2011 07:25:34 AM
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I would encourage you to go back and read my exact post.
- 15/09/2011 03:21:02 AM
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What makes you think that fat shaming is effective in making fat people lose weight?
- 15/09/2011 05:26:17 AM
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Re: What makes you think that fat shaming is effective in making fat people lose weight?
- 15/09/2011 01:50:16 PM
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Should she have a disclaimer across her chest- my breasts are only big because of fat?
- 14/09/2011 07:31:29 PM
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They are nice bikinis, for bikinis.
- 14/09/2011 08:51:19 PM
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I would be kind of tempted by the boy shorts with the strings.
- 14/09/2011 08:59:15 PM
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Boy shorts and a tankini top I could cope with.
- 14/09/2011 09:02:54 PM
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Tankinis!? 
- 14/09/2011 09:21:38 PM
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- 14/09/2011 09:21:38 PM
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I'm all about the coverage. T-shirts and shorts are not comfortable for swimming in.
- 14/09/2011 09:31:04 PM
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they do look cute.
- 14/09/2011 11:23:54 PM
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"well-endowed women" and "plus-size women" *NM*
- 16/09/2011 02:06:10 PM
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redundant and inaccurate.
- 16/09/2011 07:56:40 PM
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I was saying
- 16/09/2011 08:10:09 PM
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Should it really, though? There's no ambiguity in "well endowed women".
- 16/09/2011 09:31:42 PM
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yeah, bikinis always seem aimed at smaller boobs...
- 18/09/2011 06:41:24 PM
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