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Anonymous wrote:First off - I realize I am a mean and horrible person for even thinking that. Which is why I’m saying it on an anonymous board and not asking actual people on social media.

I just don’t like seeing swimsuit, underwear, and other kinds of ads that feature obese women. I know it sounds horrible but it makes me uncomfortable to see it and I just don’t like it. I understand why they do it but it just makes me uneasy. And I get it - the modeling industry sucks. Anorexic models aren’t good to look at either. I wish they would use normal people, like size 4-10.

But I keep seeing ads geared toward me, just because I am a woman ages 18-60 who wears clothes, and I try to hit hide ad by different companies and update my settings but I just can’t get around being bombarded by obese women in their underwear. One advertisement for some kind of period panties or whatever showed an obese woman with tons of cellulite spreading her legs and showing her underwear with a pad hanging out. I’m sorry, but that’s gross. I wouldn’t even see that at the beach, why do I have to be subjected to it on Facebook?

I get that people are progressive and inclusive and all about feelings and comfort, but I’m just not there yet. Seeing this makes me feel uneasy, like we’ve given up as a society to fight obesity, or that we’re so politically correct that you’re not supposed to fight it, that beauty is now the patriarchy and obesity is beauty. I wish we would stop normalizing it. It’s the opposite extreme from photoshopped or anorexic models. Advertisements should promote health instead.

Lastly, I resent the term “body diversity” in this context. Unless you are talking diverse as in athletic/curvy/thin/tall/short etc and not as in including fat to morbidly obese people. Diversity is a GOOD thing. Body weight is not the same thing as race or gender or sexual orientation. Being a person of color or gay is a characteristic and an identity and something to be proud of. Obesity is not, it’s a disease, stop glorifying it.

I’m sure I’ll get hate for saying all this, but I had to get it out of me. This is just how I feel.

Subsutite Black or Latino with overweight and you will see your opinions are bigoted.

So you are comparing being Black or Latino with having a disease? Now you sound bigoted.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the models who are neither super skinny nor plus-sized? I like representation, but doesn't that mean we should represent the huge block of people falling between the two?

Mindy Kaling's book talks about this a lot. When she was doing magazine shoots and stuff for her shows (The Office, The Mindy Project) she'd show up at shoots and they would only have model and plus-sized samples, which meant, like, 0s and 16s, when neither one fit her. And she'd be like "I'm an 8" and they'd be so confused as to how to dress and shoot someone who was neither waifish nor a big sassy plus sized person. That's a real problem, considering how many people fall into that range.

What exactly is a "big sassy plus sized person"?

Anonymous wrote:Where are all the models who are neither super skinny nor plus-sized? I like representation, but doesn't that mean we should represent the huge block of people falling between the two?

Mindy Kaling's book talks about this a lot. When she was doing magazine shoots and stuff for her shows (The Office, The Mindy Project) she'd show up at shoots and they would only have model and plus-sized samples, which meant, like, 0s and 16s, when neither one fit her. And she'd be like "I'm an 8" and they'd be so confused as to how to dress and shoot someone who was neither waifish nor a big sassy plus sized person. That's a real problem, considering how many people fall into that range.

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I’d like to see normal people. It’s either underweight or overweight women. Let’s all aim for the middle, shall we?


The average height is 5”4 for women and the avg weight is 161lbs. If that’s “normal” and “real”, I want to be abnormal and unreal!

I mean, my mom is 73 years old, 5'4" and 160 lbs. I don't think that's terrible for a person her age.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t feel bad OP. Most people would agree with you.

+1 I hate seeing obese people in the Target ads. I agree, it's asif we've given up.

+2 I’m a 45 year old woman and I at least try to keep a healthy body weight. We shouldn’t celebrate obesity in the guise of inclusion. It’s unhealthy. It’s raises. your cancer risk. It decreases your overall lifespan.

Yep. I'm okay with models who are +10 lbs. I do not want anorexic models. Just normal healthy women please!

It's very sad going past high schools. I'm in my 30s and high school students didn't look like this. They are sooo much heavier than what I remember.

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Anonymous wrote:First off - I realize I am a mean and horrible person for even thinking that. Which is why I’m saying it on an anonymous board and not asking actual people on social media.

I just don’t like seeing swimsuit, underwear, and other kinds of ads that feature obese women. I know it sounds horrible but it makes me uncomfortable to see it and I just don’t like it. I understand why they do it but it just makes me uneasy. And I get it - the modeling industry sucks. Anorexic models aren’t good to look at either. I wish they would use normal people, like size 4-10.

But I keep seeing ads geared toward me, just because I am a woman ages 18-60 who wears clothes, and I try to hit hide ad by different companies and update my settings but I just can’t get around being bombarded by obese women in their underwear. One advertisement for some kind of period panties or whatever showed an obese woman with tons of cellulite spreading her legs and showing her underwear with a pad hanging out. I’m sorry, but that’s gross. I wouldn’t even see that at the beach, why do I have to be subjected to it on Facebook?

I get that people are progressive and inclusive and all about feelings and comfort, but I’m just not there yet. Seeing this makes me feel uneasy, like we’ve given up as a society to fight obesity, or that we’re so politically correct that you’re not supposed to fight it, that beauty is now the patriarchy and obesity is beauty. I wish we would stop normalizing it. It’s the opposite extreme from photoshopped or anorexic models. Advertisements should promote health instead.

Lastly, I resent the term “body diversity” in this context. Unless you are talking diverse as in athletic/curvy/thin/tall/short etc and not as in including fat to morbidly obese people. Diversity is a GOOD thing. Body weight is not the same thing as race or gender or sexual orientation. Being a person of color or gay is a characteristic and an identity and something to be proud of. Obesity is not, it’s a disease, stop glorifying it.

I’m sure I’ll get hate for saying all this, but I had to get it out of me. This is just how I feel.

Subsutite Black or Latino with overweight and you will see your opinions are bigoted.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First off - I realize I am a mean and horrible person for even thinking that. Which is why I’m saying it on an anonymous board and not asking actual people on social media.

I just don’t like seeing swimsuit, underwear, and other kinds of ads that feature obese women. I know it sounds horrible but it makes me uncomfortable to see it and I just don’t like it. I understand why they do it but it just makes me uneasy. And I get it - the modeling industry sucks. Anorexic models aren’t good to look at either. I wish they would use normal people, like size 4-10.

But I keep seeing ads geared toward me, just because I am a woman ages 18-60 who wears clothes, and I try to hit hide ad by different companies and update my settings but I just can’t get around being bombarded by obese women in their underwear. One advertisement for some kind of period panties or whatever showed an obese woman with tons of cellulite spreading her legs and showing her underwear with a pad hanging out. I’m sorry, but that’s gross. I wouldn’t even see that at the beach, why do I have to be subjected to it on Facebook?

I get that people are progressive and inclusive and all about feelings and comfort, but I’m just not there yet. Seeing this makes me feel uneasy, like we’ve given up as a society to fight obesity, or that we’re so politically correct that you’re not supposed to fight it, that beauty is now the patriarchy and obesity is beauty. I wish we would stop normalizing it. It’s the opposite extreme from photoshopped or anorexic models. Advertisements should promote health instead.

Lastly, I resent the term “body diversity” in this context. Unless you are talking diverse as in athletic/curvy/thin/tall/short etc and not as in including fat to morbidly obese people. Diversity is a GOOD thing. Body weight is not the same thing as race or gender or sexual orientation. Being a person of color or gay is a characteristic and an identity and something to be proud of. Obesity is not, it’s a disease, stop glorifying it.

I’m sure I’ll get hate for saying all this, but I had to get it out of me. This is just how I feel.

Subsutite Black or Latino with overweight and you will see your opinions are bigoted.

Anonymous wrote:First off - I realize I am a mean and horrible person for even thinking that. Which is why I’m saying it on an anonymous board and not asking actual people on social media.

I just don’t like seeing swimsuit, underwear, and other kinds of ads that feature obese women. I know it sounds horrible but it makes me uncomfortable to see it and I just don’t like it. I understand why they do it but it just makes me uneasy. And I get it - the modeling industry sucks. Anorexic models aren’t good to look at either. I wish they would use normal people, like size 4-10.

But I keep seeing ads geared toward me, just because I am a woman ages 18-60 who wears clothes, and I try to hit hide ad by different companies and update my settings but I just can’t get around being bombarded by obese women in their underwear. One advertisement for some kind of period panties or whatever showed an obese woman with tons of cellulite spreading her legs and showing her underwear with a pad hanging out. I’m sorry, but that’s gross. I wouldn’t even see that at the beach, why do I have to be subjected to it on Facebook?

I get that people are progressive and inclusive and all about feelings and comfort, but I’m just not there yet. Seeing this makes me feel uneasy, like we’ve given up as a society to fight obesity, or that we’re so politically correct that you’re not supposed to fight it, that beauty is now the patriarchy and obesity is beauty. I wish we would stop normalizing it. It’s the opposite extreme from photoshopped or anorexic models. Advertisements should promote health instead.

Lastly, I resent the term “body diversity” in this context. Unless you are talking diverse as in athletic/curvy/thin/tall/short etc and not as in including fat to morbidly obese people. Diversity is a GOOD thing. Body weight is not the same thing as race or gender or sexual orientation. Being a person of color or gay is a characteristic and an identity and something to be proud of. Obesity is not, it’s a disease, stop glorifying it.

I’m sure I’ll get hate for saying all this, but I had to get it out of me. This is just how I feel.

I’d like to see normal people. It’s either underweight or overweight women. Let’s all aim for the middle, shall we?


The average height is 5”4 for women and the avg weight is 161lbs. If that’s “normal” and “real”, I want to be abnormal and unreal!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t feel bad OP. Most people would agree with you.

+1 I hate seeing obese people in the Target ads. I agree, it's asif we've given up.

+2 I’m a 45 year old woman and I at least try to keep a healthy body weight. We shouldn’t celebrate obesity in the guise of inclusion. It’s unhealthy. It’s raises. your cancer risk. It decreases your overall lifespan.

I'm OP and this is my point. I am aware that in today's politically correct context I sound like a monster. But I don't behave in a different way towards obese people, I judge them by the content of their character. I would gladly pay higher taxes so that they can have better healthcare (universal healthcare) and I support policies that bring more healthy food choices to food desert communities, and generous leave policies for companies so people aren't overstressed and overmedicated. I want obese people to lose weight and live longer and more fulfilled lives. I don't want their unhealthy bodies to be showcased in a way that is promotional or in a traditionally aspirational context. Especially when you're apparently not allowed to look away. I mean it's one thing if it's a company that makes plus size clothing, or even a clothing company that just has a lot of sizes. I am forced to look at fat women with cellulite dancing in their underwear. There is literally no setting I can turn off on Facebook or instagram or anything else that will block underwear ads or period ads or anything like that. I'm a woman, therefore the internet thinks I need to buy those things.

Poor op. Having to look at people who are fat is such a struggle! How do you manage?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t feel bad OP. Most people would agree with you.

+1 I hate seeing obese people in the Target ads. I agree, it's asif we've given up.

+2 I’m a 45 year old woman and I at least try to keep a healthy body weight. We shouldn’t celebrate obesity in the guise of inclusion. It’s unhealthy. It’s raises. your cancer risk. It decreases your overall lifespan.

I'm OP and this is my point. I am aware that in today's politically correct context I sound like a monster. But I don't behave in a different way towards obese people, I judge them by the content of their character. I would gladly pay higher taxes so that they can have better healthcare (universal healthcare) and I support policies that bring more healthy food choices to food desert communities, and generous leave policies for companies so people aren't overstressed and overmedicated. I want obese people to lose weight and live longer and more fulfilled lives. I don't want their unhealthy bodies to be showcased in a way that is promotional or in a traditionally aspirational context. Especially when you're apparently not allowed to look away. I mean it's one thing if it's a company that makes plus size clothing, or even a clothing company that just has a lot of sizes. I am forced to look at fat women with cellulite dancing in their underwear. There is literally no setting I can turn off on Facebook or instagram or anything else that will block underwear ads or period ads or anything like that. I'm a woman, therefore the internet thinks I need to buy those things.

Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see normal people. It’s either underweight or overweight women. Let’s all aim for the middle, shall we?