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No. Amyrlin Send a noteboard - 15/09/2011 05:11:54 PM
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,


These ads, like all ads, are in it for the cash. They want to sell clothes, and who buys pretty clothes? People that feel GOOD about themselves. (and people that don't to be fair, but it's easier to SPEND to look pretty, when you see yourself as pretty).

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.


Yes, it is. The bra isn't going to kill her. Just sayin'. (She might THINK it's going to kill her.. at say 9pm.. after a full day of wearing it, but it will NEVER give her cancer and it will never kill her.)
Amy

By the way, I miss you too.~KB
1971-2006
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Bikinis for well endowed women Vivien - 14/09/2011 04:19:39 PM 1116 Views
Well done on the double post *NM* Stephen - 14/09/2011 04:31:36 PM 249 Views
Why do I always double post? I don't mean to. *NM* Vivien - 14/09/2011 05:00:34 PM 278 Views
Over enthuasiastically jabbing the submit button? Stephen - 14/09/2011 05:27:15 PM 491 Views
I'm for. *NM* Palatine - 14/09/2011 05:56:05 PM 249 Views
God bless big breasted women *NM* Dark Knight - 14/09/2011 06:11:59 PM 296 Views
and God doubly bless large breasted women in bikinis *NM* random thoughts - 14/09/2011 09:41:49 PM 302 Views
The woman on the right is just fat, probably dangerously so. *NM* Tom - 14/09/2011 06:29:07 PM 265 Views
Would not having a well fitting bikini top make her magically lose weight? Vivien - 14/09/2011 07:18:49 PM 546 Views
I protest the "I'm okay, you're okay" drivel inherent in the statement "plus-size". Tom - 14/09/2011 08:30:34 PM 588 Views
I agree with you on this. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 08:37:50 PM 746 Views
It's not that they're real and you're not. It's that they're real *too*. Vivien - 14/09/2011 09:15:24 PM 666 Views
I get that. But that's not what they say. And it's not just an advertising campaign. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 09:35:03 PM 595 Views
You get a range of healthy sizes in regular stores. Vivien - 14/09/2011 10:24:20 PM 677 Views
Re: You get a range of healthy sizes in regular stores. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 10:28:18 PM 734 Views
They have to over emphasize that it's ok precisely because society keeps saying that it's not Vivien - 14/09/2011 08:51:03 PM 596 Views
But it ISN'T Tom - 15/09/2011 03:26:43 AM 656 Views
Exactly- smoking is so much worse! Vivien - 15/09/2011 06:07:04 AM 790 Views
No. Amyrlin - 15/09/2011 05:11:54 PM 710 Views
I agree and disagree Amyrlin - 14/09/2011 09:53:01 PM 789 Views
I don't mind the directness, I want someone to engage/argue with me. Vivien - 14/09/2011 10:37:02 PM 652 Views
That would be me. Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 03:07:19 AM 538 Views
Your friend sounds hot. Vivien - 15/09/2011 05:38:18 AM 645 Views
There's still a bit of fat on him, but yes, he's becoming much more attractive. *NM* Ghavrel - 15/09/2011 07:25:34 AM 260 Views
Your friend sounds like me aerocontrols - 15/09/2011 03:21:18 PM 570 Views
*NM* TaskmasterJack - 16/09/2011 02:43:45 AM 285 Views
I would encourage you to go back and read my exact post. Tom - 15/09/2011 03:21:02 AM 672 Views
What makes you think that fat shaming is effective in making fat people lose weight? Vivien - 15/09/2011 05:26:17 AM 718 Views
that is not what he is saying LadyLorraine - 15/09/2011 06:43:04 AM 673 Views
Re: What makes you think that fat shaming is effective in making fat people lose weight? Amyrlin - 15/09/2011 01:50:16 PM 640 Views
I agree ßelals Girl - 27/09/2011 07:54:19 PM 737 Views
Should she have a disclaimer across her chest- my breasts are only big because of fat? Vivien - 14/09/2011 07:31:29 PM 602 Views
BwahahAHHAhAHHAhHAhAHhaa. Yes. Just what I was thinking. ^_^ globug0822 - 16/09/2011 04:38:54 AM 805 Views
Right. Vivien - 21/09/2011 10:36:22 PM 603 Views
They are nice bikinis, for bikinis. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 08:51:19 PM 661 Views
I would be kind of tempted by the boy shorts with the strings. Vivien - 14/09/2011 08:59:15 PM 669 Views
Boy shorts and a tankini top I could cope with. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 09:02:54 PM 730 Views
Tankinis!? Vivien - 14/09/2011 09:21:38 PM 766 Views
I'm all about the coverage. T-shirts and shorts are not comfortable for swimming in. Rebekah - 14/09/2011 09:31:04 PM 534 Views
they do look cute. Aeryn - 14/09/2011 11:23:54 PM 612 Views
Tankinis!? Or the stuff in the link? Vivien - 14/09/2011 11:29:39 PM 722 Views
Tankini. *NM* Aeryn - 14/09/2011 11:30:20 PM 271 Views
I might go for a tankini next summer... LaSombra - 28/09/2011 08:48:00 PM 730 Views
Best horizontal scrollbar ever. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 14/09/2011 10:48:47 PM 302 Views
The fat woman disappeared! *NM* Two Wongs - 05/10/2011 11:27:22 AM 271 Views
"All bikinis 50% off" said the sign in the window aerocontrols - 15/09/2011 01:51:22 AM 709 Views
"well-endowed women" and "plus-size women" *NM* Sareitha Sedai - 16/09/2011 02:06:10 PM 303 Views
?? *NM* Amyrlin - 16/09/2011 07:01:42 PM 287 Views
redundant and inaccurate. Aeryn - 16/09/2011 07:56:40 PM 500 Views
I was saying Sareitha Sedai - 16/09/2011 08:10:09 PM 631 Views
Should it really, though? There's no ambiguity in "well endowed women". Legolas - 16/09/2011 09:31:42 PM 510 Views
I might have inherited a pit of water from my father? *NM* Two Wongs - 05/10/2011 11:28:30 AM 233 Views
yeah, bikinis always seem aimed at smaller boobs... LaSombra - 18/09/2011 06:41:24 PM 603 Views
Re: yeah, bikinis always seem aimed at smaller boobs... TaskmasterJack - 18/09/2011 06:45:00 PM 585 Views
LOL LaSombra - 18/09/2011 09:52:28 PM 680 Views
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