body shaming gone too far? (***warning*** Daily Fail Story ***warning***)

malachi said:
Yep, over 60% of 18 to 25 years old are overweight in the UK compared to other countries in Europe. Which is disgusting but too many would rather sit on their backside in front of a screen, watch all that non sense on TV and stuff their face.
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The bigger problem is the growing acceptance that being fat is normal and something to be celebrated.
 
Lets not forget being "fat" does not equal being unhealthy or unfit, carrying some extra chub is going to do you no real damage in the long run as long as you're not massively lazy with it.
 
tom_e said:
Lets not forget being "fat" does not equal being unhealthy or unfit, carrying some extra chub is going to do you no real damage in the long run as long as you're not massively lazy with it.
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Being a few pounds overweight does not no, but obese and over does. Most of the people who say this though are not just a few pounds overweight.
 
You know those moving walkways in airports? We need those in snack aisles in supermarkets and put one way barriers at the end so it makes people think twice before grabbing some snacks.

Actually, I might be on to something here.


Off to Kickstarter!
 
In my opinion it just boils down to women wanting to feel sexually attractive, after all women are the ones who are taught to be sought after and chased. This combined with the entitlement that modern feminism (tumblrism) seems to instil in these social warriors leads to these kind of overblown reactions.

Since when has the term 'Beach Body' meant anything but an aesthetically pleasing look?

You swap the image with a toned dude and no one would bat an eye-lid, apart from the majority of those women claiming the original version is terrible, I'm sure they wouldn't object to seeing such adverts then.

Simply put, guys are encouraged to aspire to be stronger, to see a toned athlete and told with enough effort you could be like that, to feel empowered by the possibility of being in such good shape.

Nowadays, when women see a strong athletic female they're encouraged to complain how it's unrealistic and doesn't represent the 'real' woman. To sit behind their keyboards and feel a sense of comfort that a niche group sympathise with their ideals. Vowing to fight and complain until the 'unrealistic' body standard society has idolised and lusted after has been destroyed... and been replaced by their own.

And just remember, just because we're big ladies doesn't mean we don't deserve hot hunky men! But... but not fat guys, they're gross.
 
Craterloads said:
It's not just body fat that is shopped usually. With the op ad there is nothing I can see to complain about as it is representative, and as mentioned it shouldn't be taboo.

But with most ads they are usually shopped to hell and back and I can see why some people don't think its is healthy for society.
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I can see why the use of some models isn't healthy - when they're particularly skinny... but photoshopping tends to be more used to change the body shape of celebs who perhaps no longer have the figure they did a few years ago - plenty of models don't require it to change their shape and you'll only see it used to remove tattoos or make skin appear smother.

though it really is an outdated stereotype, models a generally very healthy these days.

There is a fitness trend amongst models these days - the anorexic look certainly isn't in and lots of fitness training that in the past would have been more confined to male gym goers is now very popular amongst young women - google the 'skinny bitch collective' for an example, I know one girl who models who is very into that sort of thing, tis popular amongst models in London these days.
 
Craterloads said:
Well if the cars in the adverts don't look like what they do in reality then yes, it would be false advertising.
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But that's not the issue, we aren't talking about false advertising. The cars are real, the woman is real. We are talking about censoring real things because some people can't handle it.
 
I think the problem people have is the idea that the advert implicitly (heck, perhaps explicitly) suggests that your body is unsuitable for beaches if you aren't "beach body ready".

If the advert was suggesting all the lardies would benefit their health by cutting out the pies, then it would be fair enough. But what it's actually doing is giving the impression that beaches are not "for" pork-lords.

We can argue about the health benefits, or otherwise, of weight loss - but does anyone really believe that a person's weight makes a difference to their suitability for going to the beach?

I'm not bothered by the advert (though I'm not fat), but people's counter arguments don't make sense in context.
 
cheesyboy said:
I think the problem people have is the idea that the advert implicitly (heck, perhaps explicitly) suggests that your body is unsuitable for beaches if you aren't "beach body ready".

If the advert was suggesting all the lardies would benefit their health by cutting out the pies, then it would be fair enough. But what it's actually doing is giving the impression that beaches are not "for" pork-lords.

We can argue about the health benefits, or otherwise, of weight loss - but does anyone really believe that a person's weight makes a difference to their suitability for going to the beach?

I'm not bothered by the advert (though I'm not fat), but people's counter arguments don't make sense in context.
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Really is nothing that ruins my trip to the beach quicker than some pork-lord blocking all my sunlight.
 
If the fatties that complained about this poster put that energy in to exercise and sorting themselves out then they may one day have a beach body.

As someone else has said to me beach body has always been someone fit/healthy looking.
 
Adrianr said:
Really is nothing that ruins my trip to the beach quicker than some pork-lord blocking all my sunlight.
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Well, I can't deny that I do appreciate a body like the one in the advert on my annual visit to the exotic sands of Weston Super Mare. But my crafty beach-semi is probably not the barometer by which society should measure its beach suitability against :p
 
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