And they will say I went from a size 10 to a size zero. Aren't there enough eating disorders already? They are making it seem like a size 10 is a fat a** or something and I think that is pretty average. It annoys me so much.Does that bother anybody else?
2006-07-02 10:05:02 · 39 answers · asked by purple rain 5 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Yea it does. That's why so many women are so obsessed about their weight. They think that what they read or see in a magazine is the right way to be. I also hate how they show skinny girls on weight loss advertisements and just a tiny before picture. i think they should have like a big girl and then show us her progress you know? make it more believable. but that's just me.
2006-07-02 10:11:32 · answer #1 · answered by kimmiieeeeeeeeeeeee 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Heck yes it is bothersome. The average size in America is a 14 or 16. A size 10 is smaller than average by a few dress sizes. This is why so many people have eating disorders. The media makes it a sin to be over a size 2 and that is just not reality. In reality most men want a woman that looks and feels like a woman, not a woman that looks like a teen boy. Most men like curves and a woman with a little something to her. The waify look should be out. It is disturbing that these advertisements make it look like a size 10 is big when everyday we read or hear about young girls and boys killing themselves to be thin. Things have got to change.
2006-07-02 10:12:26 · answer #2 · answered by whatshername 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a guy and it pisses me off when they make it seem like the best looking woman are the ones that can dodge raindrops I i swear to me the perfect woman has a nice figure yes but has to have some kind of meet on her bones i thought it was messed up when they came out with the commercials for the big woman I forgot who it was that did it but they had big girls with average shaped bodies in bras and panties modelling whatever it was they were modelling and those woman were sexy but it was all over the news that people were complaining that it was wrong and it should have never been done and now all the ads are gone and once again the average woman to big girl range is once again pushed back to back burners for the toothpick anerexsic almost sickly looking fake breast fake butt fake everything model
2006-07-03 03:04:47 · answer #3 · answered by OZoNE 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The article is very relevant in today's media obsession with stick figured women.
Men, like women, have varied taste in a partner, but the difference is WOMEN are not given
the fair treatment by media, society, etc..
Women will follow a good man they love to the ends of the earth. The fat, budge, beer belly be damned. That's her man and back off! :)
We women are told men only like the skinny girl, so put that cookie down!! Nevermind, mom and dad have been married for decades and they are both chubsters! :)
Sometimes I wonder if it's just the usual controlling of women (like with access to birth control, etc)......
It was so nice to read about Love. This article could have easily substituted being in love with a fat woman to being in love with the same sex, different race, or different economic class.
I have witnessed similar reactions the author had with his family when my brother brought home his girlfriend (raised in the ghetto of a big city) and obviously not middle class.
I read the letters posted and the shrill sounding "fat=bad" opinions are over the top. I thought Salon readers were a bit more savvy then that....fat is not bad, it has been proven a million times over. What is wrong prejudice and pretending it's ok to smear fat people.
I personally like a thick woman and could not really see myself being with a thin one.
2006-07-02 10:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by Pimp_Slapper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it bothers me alot also, I'm in the fitness business and I know this is not the norm, the models they show on commercials and magazines as well. I write e-mails whenever I can to let them know how I feel too. I just wrote a e-mail to health.com as their magazine is new and they only show bone skinny models in it and fact is, this isn't even healthy. Every body is different, and every body does need some fat on it to be healthy. Marilyn Monroe was a size 16 and look how good she looked.
2006-07-02 10:27:26 · answer #5 · answered by trainer53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
according to various heath studies the average size for woman in america is size 16
i am a size 10 but have vertually no body fat. i have wide hips and shoulders and because i am a boxer i am very muscular
you are right those woman on commercials looked perfect before they got to be size zero
2006-07-02 12:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by paparazzichelle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you buy a diet product advertised by a size 22? Wouldn't look convincing. My favorite was the diet pill that showed the "before and after" pictures, turned out they were reversed! The actors had their pictures taken then bulked up to be fatter! Caveat Emptor!
2006-07-02 10:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they put them on there for all the fine looking self-concious women out there who at size tens think they need to lose weight, Its wrong, but thats how we advirtise in the USA.
Blunt, but the truth,
Zinko
2006-07-02 10:28:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you do not need a weight loss nothing,you be hot hot hot babe.i am going to see you on 360 you are sweet,babe.if that is you in the pic you could be a model real easy. now for the ques. They do that to apeal to make people want to look that way.
2006-07-06 14:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by macki4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep your meal balanced
2016-03-15 09:41:26 · answer #10 · answered by Santiago 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋