Mental illness...

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:58 pm

Ok...these people are mentally ill.

Not only is this image grotesque and disturbing, it is cause for shunning and boycotting this business:

http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/WLcXI.ffl ... _D0JCHfBVu

How many women have been afflicted with self-image disorders by what is being sold to them by media and commercial interests? The designer and photographer should be shot.

Aside from creating life-threatening conditions for models, how IS that attractive? It's disgusting.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:40 pm

Photoshop Disasters

I really do not understand why Heterosexual Females are bound to attempt to reproduce a Homosexual Male's Designers concept of an ideal partner.

at another time I may elaborate.....

S13driftAZ · Post by **S13driftAZ** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 4:40 pm

I agree. People are morons.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:07 pm

It's strange. You keep hearing how fat America is getting yet the media keeps pushing this imagery. Or does that make perfect sense?

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:32 pm

Isaac will understand this Imagery when he officially becomes a homosexual male.

Isaac/Octoputz wrote:You lucky bastard. I WISH i was gay. Woman sucks so much. I hate them, but i keep going back to those harpies... If there was a gay pill i'd O.D. them...

S13driftAZ · Post by **S13driftAZ** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:46 pm

Isaac wrote:It's strange. You keep hearing how fat America is getting yet the media keeps pushing this imagery. Or does that make perfect sense?

Our government uses McDonalds to make fat people fatter, to buy more food and diet pills and high cholesterol medication but why this? Its idiotic.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:59 pm

Bingo. But I wouldn't claim it's our government(s) since they're not that smart or organized. Shareholders make more sense. Profit from McDonalds and Slimfast at the same time by investing in the control of different media sources. It's rope and pulleys plan but so are computer programs.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:52 pm

Are you telling me you don't really understand this? It's shock value advertising. I've seen them before in one of the Malls around here a couple of years ago. Yeah it's weird, but it's meant to be. It gets your attention and makes you REALLY look at the image and the ad.

Gives me the willies.

Gekko71 · Post by **Gekko71** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:45 am

Duper wrote:Are you telling me you don't really understand this? It's shock value advertising. I've seen them before in one of the Malls around here a couple of years ago. Yeah it's weird, but it's meant to be. It gets your attention and makes you REALLY look at the image and the ad.

Gives me the willies.

Ummm - Myself I don't think it's shockvertising.

...Insanely stupid yes - but not shockvertising.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:10 am

Disgusting.

S13driftAZ · Post by **S13driftAZ** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:22 am

Gekko71 wrote:
Duper wrote:Are you telling me you don't really understand this? It's shock value advertising. I've seen them before in one of the Malls around here a couple of years ago. Yeah it's weird, but it's meant to be. It gets your attention and makes you REALLY look at the image and the ad.

Gives me the willies.
Ummm - Myself I don't think it's shockvertising.

...Insanely stupid yes - but not shockvertising.

I agree with this. This isn't the first model to have looked like this. There are plenty more and the trend IS serious. They are serious - looking good is looking like this.

http://iamrainbow.wordpress.com/2007/01 ... permodels/
^ Read This ^

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:42 pm

Cut off cable, TV, and Internet and make your kids play outside. Give them meaningful teenage activities such as giving them an axe and and old couch with instructions to burn the wood in the fire-pit, or teaching them to drive. When they want to buy designer clothes and shoes tell them to go right ahead and buy it with their own money.

First time driving = 4 years old
First paper-route = 8
First time driving a 1957 split axle dump-truck = 12
First time paying Room and Board = 12
Out of the house by 16

My Dad was old school.

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:08 am

Duper wrote:Are you telling me you don't really understand this? It's shock value advertising. I've seen them before in one of the Malls around here a couple of years ago. Yeah it's weird, but it's meant to be. It gets your attention and makes you REALLY look at the image and the ad.

hmmm, not sure if it is meant to be like this. Statement from Ralph Lauren:

For over 42 years we have built a brand based on quality and integrity. After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body. We have addressed the problem and going forward will take every precaution to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately."

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 6:10 am

Cut off cable, TV, and Internet and make your kids play outside. Give them meaningful teenage activities such as giving them an axe and and old couch with instructions to burn the wood in the fire-pit, or teaching them to drive. When they want to buy designer clothes and shoes tell them to go right ahead and buy it with their own money.

completely agree. It is amazing how little you miss the TV after you've gotten over the first month or so.

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:02 pm

Pandora wrote:completely agree. It is amazing how little you miss the TV after you've gotten over the first month or so.

And then it becomes harder to watch TV. The rare times I do watch I find my mind wanders all over the place, and then when I come back to the show I don't know whats going on.

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:16 pm

You guys have wandered off the subject of the thread- but;

Yep, I don't watch TV anymore. There really isn't any point and it's increasingly obvious these days that if you really want to watch something, you can watch it at just about any time you want. Traditional media is dying a horrible death because of the internet.

Newspapers, magazines, television networks...are all becoming obsolete and meaningless when you can grab all the same content from the net for free or nearly free for the time you choose and at any time you choose.

Book publishers may find it more difficult to make ends meet as well when e-paper devices start coming to market en masse next year. Authors will be able to self-publish and take home all the money without the paper printing-royalty-sucking middleman.

S13driftAZ · Post by **S13driftAZ** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:12 pm

Pandora wrote:completely agree. It is amazing how little you miss the TV after you've gotten over the first month or so.

I'll agree with that. Until you miss an episode of House and realize the DVR is gone...

Behemoth · Post by **Behemoth** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:07 pm

i disagree, theres nothing attractive about a fat ★■◆●.

Burlyman · Post by **Burlyman** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 6:21 pm

S13driftAZ wrote:
Isaac wrote:It's strange. You keep hearing how fat America is getting yet the media keeps pushing this imagery. Or does that make perfect sense?
Our government uses irradiation and genetic modification on food to make fat people fatter, to buy more food and diet pills and high cholesterol medication but why this? Its idiotic.

Fixed that for you. =P

S13driftAZ · Post by **S13driftAZ** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:57 pm

HAHA thanks. I believe that too.

Kiran · Post by **Kiran** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:41 pm

It's called get a LIFE and step outside the house. Get a dog, get a significant other, or go find some meaningful activity (such as hiking or carpentry) or go to school and get another degree.

The only time I'll be using the tv is in the mornings if my husband is awake and at night for an episode of Family Guy or the Simpsons (don't ask me why, no matter how many times I've seen these shows, it's entertaining yet just enough to let me relax and go to sleep).

I can only hope I don't turn into one of those moms who just puts their young kids in front of TV just to get a few minutes of chores done.

That's just saying the answer to everything is to watch tv

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