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[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 108 points 11 months ago (25 children)

You cannot tell me that dude (duddette?) doesn't have an eating disorder. That looks sickly and horrible.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 41 points 11 months ago (13 children)

I am extremely skinny and look unhealthy and kinda similar to the model in that way, even though I eat normally and I think even very healthy. My dad looks like that too. Being 2 meters tall also doesn't exactly help. Just saying that you shouldn't judge people so easily and you can hurt someone also pretty easily. Some people just have being fat or skinny in their genes.

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely right. I would not judge you if I saw you at the supermarket. But this dude is the face of a fashion and beauty brand. They are pushing this body type (rarely occurs naturally in healthy folks like you) and mostly occurs on people with health problems. In a way they are pushing a non healthy image to many people that are not like you. I would even dare to say you are a very minuscule porcentage of people with this body type that are 100% healthy so this is being pushed to folks that have lovehandles and now they hate themselves.

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[–] HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Thank you. There's apparently been a fine line between promoting body acceptance and shitting on thin body types. Some people seem to think it's not even a natural body type at all and anyone who's thin is just anorexic. It's like we've been completely left out of the equation unless we're being looked down on. Yeah, I'm right there with you on this.

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[–] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I think it's a bit distasteful to armchair diagnose someone you don't know, though

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 50 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It's also distasteful to encourage eating disorders to enter the modelling industry by exclusively featuring models that are extremely underweight, but I guess who are we to judge...

[–] Terces@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

We are the society and judging other people's behaviour is what defines morality. Not speaking up about things that are clearly fucked up as the model industry just shifts the whole moral-scale in their favor.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Who are they advertising to? Emaciated cross dressing men with bad haircuts?

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's a growing demographic

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[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 55 points 11 months ago (9 children)

The ad aside, I just don't understand the appeal of paying $3,000 for a handbag when a $20 handbag will can do just the same thing. The only thing I can think of is people think they look cool or rich or better if they have a Prada handbag, but frankly, who gives a shit what kind of bag someone has? And second of all, if I saw you with one I wouldn't think you are cool at all. I would think you're the dumbest person alive.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (6 children)

While it's true that you hit a point of diminishing returns, there's a sharp divide between, say, a $200 bag and a $20 bag. Technically a plastic shopping bag will serve the same purpose as a purse, but it's likely to break in less than a day. A $20 bag might last a few months of daily use if you're careful, but it's going to have cheap/non-durable materials, have cheap findings, and be poorly made. At $200, the odds are pretty high that it's going to be well made, use solid materials that will last, and have fittings that aren't going to corrode, fall off, or break in a few months.

I have a designer wallet that I've used every day for over 15 years, and while it looks beat up, it's still fully intact. I averaged about one every 3-4 years before I got this one.

See also: Cap'n Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Because they get to show off. Other people see it and they feel bad for not having access to the resources required to do this. And you know what? All of us do this shit in some way or another. Fancy cars, vanity muscles that don't actually help you, talent in things that have no real practical value, fancy collections, big house. All of us are performing, trying to tell the world "I am so amazing I can afford this waste". And if we have nothing to brag about we can always brag about our indifference. As if all of us secretly didn't wish deep down that they had so much money they could spend $2k on what should be 20.

I think you understand it perfectly fine, you just don't like what it implies about us all.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I don't even know why anyone is impressed by it.

If you told me your shoes were $50,000 and didn't follow that with "they also suck your dick" I'd think you were just a moron, not super cool and worthy of emulation.

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[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just don’t understand the appeal of paying $3,000 for a handbag when a $20 handbag will can do just the same thing.

The appeal is that a $3,000 handbag sends a signal, one that you have $3,000 to spend on a handbag and are the type of person who would do such a thing.

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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So, where does body positivity start and stop? It seems silly to say one extreme is acceptable but the other isn’t.

Now, I worry body positivity, in general, encourages people to ignore the need to make life style changes for their own personal health, but also, maybe, if it’s not my body, it’s none of my fucking business.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

if it’s not my body, it’s none of my fucking business.

Please don't be obtuse. When it gets put into an ad campaign aimed at me and the 99.9% of other people where looking like would be extremely bad for our own personal health, it becomes our business.

Look at it another way, a year ago would you have said to an antivaxxer / antimasker "who am I to judge"? The effects here are much more subtle and take more time, but the same logic applies, and the results of inaction are no less insidious.

So sure, all right, maybe a single person might be all right without a vaccine/without a mask/eating only 30 calories a day, but that is not something that should be encouraged. And the dumbass republicans/marketers who spread this behavior should be called out and shamed.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The fashion industry is simply saving money on fabrics by using smaller, thinner models that don't require as much material to clothe.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

God I hope so. They might send stupid, sexy brainwashed male models to crush my head between their thick, masculine thighs if I happened to be correct.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Looks anorexic to me. Hope they are fine

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[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

I legitimately thought this was a joke, at first. Like taking some internet meme I’m unfamiliar with and putting it in an ad for Prada.

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The guy doesn't look much better, just drowned in a suit

https://milled.com/SaksFifthAvenue/pradas-holiday-collection-featuring-iconic-bags-in-a-festive-new-hue-cB27Ax2i9HFSeYAW

Looking at other photos though Prada seem to prefer models this skinny

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yuck.

Gender doesn't matter (and can't be determined) this is ugly thin and ugly haircut to the extreme.

[–] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Weight aside, that haircut is atrocious.

[–] EmoBean@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because body positivity isn't for skinny people.

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Body image issues aside, I just could not imagine going through life with so little upper and lower body strength. Just seems so impractical and inconvenient to choose to be this way.

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[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

Jesus fuck this is literally starvation

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I still don't understand who these ads are targeted at. The model is well past looks-attractive skinny and into to looks-unhealthy skinny. Does that make someone want to buy an expensive purse?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

This isn't mild.

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Heroin chic is the technical term, I believe 😖

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Me: "How bad could it b-JESUS!"

[–] FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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