As someone intimately involved in the world of imagery, especially in depictions of the contorted female form (through my art work), I find the images recently put out by the people at Ralph Lauren of women photoshopped to the point of emaciation an interesting struggle between absolute absurdity and the warped views of sexuality in consumerism
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It's as if normal, healthy people can't possibly come in more than one shape or size, and I call bullshit on that. Even being "thin" isn't enough anymore, as models wearing size 4 are being told they are too fat? Bullshit. That is some seriously fucked up bullshit. I can only wish that the modeling industry were more about displaying true beauty and less about judging people's bodies as acceptable or not acceptable. I think as a culture that's the mindset we really have to watch out for, the judging of other's bodies as though it's any of our business how large/small/fat/thin someone is. Bottom line, we are all human beings deserving of respect.
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