30-08-2018, 07:59 PM
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Re: Big Girls can wear Glam Undies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYTZxVHLTz4
30-08-2018, 08:40 PM
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Re: Big Girls can wear Glam Undies
Originally Posted by Pesta
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I'm having a titter here, all the replies are from the ladies, not one male, as yet, has commented 
ANyone can look beautiful in their own way.
This said, we should remain objective and realistic about what we are seeing in that picture. The lady, I strongly suspect, is a professional model, I'm sure I've seen her on TV ads but can't remember which.
What that is then is simply a money making marketing idea designed to make the ever increasing number of obese women feel less bad about themselves, to sow the seed that that they can still be sexy depsite being obese and thereby hope that they will run out to spend money on the firm's products.
That's the sad part. The lingerie firms have no interest whatsoever in their customer base's health or state of being. They just want to sell products and make lots of money. Obese women were simply an untapped market that has now been fully exploited and saturated like all other markets.
I remember that not too many years ago the industry redefined clothes sizes for the same reasons. A Size 16 dress was overnight relabelled as Size 14 and suddenly women everywhere started feeling better about themselves. They were now wearing size 14s rather than 16s and that somehow had psychological benefit. It was a total sleight of hand of course but very clever marketing nonetheless.
Do I think the woman in the picture looks beautiful? Sure. She is very pretty, but, her state of body speaks to me of self indulgence, of too much focus on self rather than others and of a lack of education about foods and nutrition. Promoting that kind body state is not something I think is useful to others.
Those are all assumptions and judgements I realise, but we each have our personal ways of interpreting people and beauty.
There's an argument of course about helping overweight women feel good about themselves, to banish thoughts of inadequacy and failure that lead to depression. This kind of stuff aids that cause.
But there's also the argument for properly educating people about how weight is gained in the first place and how to properly shed it and do so permanently and why it is so important to do so.
Most of what we see on TV is sensationalist clap trap from companies wanting to promote their products and services. Lot's of diet marketing, so called "healthy" food products, slimming clubs and so on. Pretty much all of it is a scam.
How would a girl like the one in that picture change her mindset about the way she eats, her general lifestyle and her health outlook? Making her a media sex symbol for the way she is now, is unlikely to motivate her to change and that's somewhat depressing.
Obesity is not a good thing imho, however nicely it is dressed up.
30-08-2018, 08:51 PM
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Re: Big Girls can wear Glam Undies
The fashion industry can't do right for doing wrong! I can remember the outrage about Twiggy when she first appeared. Nick-named 'the girl with two backs' she - and those like her - were blamed for the increase in outbreaks of anorexia/bulimia and other such eating disorders.Now they try to address the balance by making pretty undies for larger sizes and that is deemed to be wrong as well.
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