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  • #32
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    skinny women are hot, the op is prob just fat and jealous.


  • #33
    pseudonym1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭pseudonym1


    Perhaps
    but I think you could be wrong or perhaps missing the point- whilst I am far from body perfection am toned and not fat I can still categorically say believe that curvy woman look better then the skinnys we see in ads - esp in real life.

    And if you find skinny more attractive - more power too you!
    Just dont marry one because of it! :D


  • #34
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    skinny women are hot, the op is prob just fat and jealous.
    That line's always thrown out on Boards - it's really sh1tty. If a woman questions the likes of http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/115306.jpg being used to sell products it does not mean there's a good chance she's fat and/or jealous.

    And when you say "skinny women are hot" I'm pretty certain you don't mean women as skinny as the one in the link. Yes, healthy thin can be very attractive but "at death's door" isn't. And it's a serious problem - women have died because of it. That's what the OP's getting at...


  • #35
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Dudess wrote: »
    http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/115306.jpg


    From the chin up she is pretty hot.


  • #36
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    I find skinny women very attractive, most of my mates don't. Some do. There you go OP. The male perspective.


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  • #37
    pseudonym1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭pseudonym1


    Ugh Vile!
    Fact is so many young girls are been influnced by profiled bueatiful young girls in pic above. This can cause serious illness not just talking about anorexia or bulemia but the knock on effects these cause - epelipsy bone deficincy and many more. This is not to mention the psychological and social issues incured for the individual and family/freinds.

    Do you honestly think that skinny girl is hot!?
    A bueatiful face no doubt but so starved she looks as if she is on deaths door.

    I encourage ye boys to get over weight issues and preferences - as they are a contributing factor to feeding a zeitgeist that could some day be the corupption and loss of a life of someones sister/ daughter/girlfreind.

    On a lighter note Eirn O Conner is part of a campian to encourage models to eat healthier and got angry chef guy on board - Ramsey. So hopefully gradually is a changing.


  • #38
    phantom_lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    Dudess wrote: »
    That line's always thrown out on Boards - it's really sh1tty. If a woman questions the likes of http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/115306.jpg being used to sell products it does not mean there's a good chance she's fat and/or jealous.

    And when you say "skinny women are hot" I'm pretty certain you don't mean women as skinny as the one in the link. Yes, healthy thin can be very attractive but "at death's door" isn't. And it's a serious problem - women have died because of it. That's what the OP's getting at...


    lol are u serious? i don't think that's the type of girl anyone thinks of when when they say skinny, i've certainly never seen them used to sell stuff. The only time i've seen girls like that is in thread like this when some girl pulls it out to make some argument that skinny girls are sickening and staving themselves to death. It's the equivalent of me posting this as an example of how disgusting "curvy" women are.


  • #39
    Daithi McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    lol are u serious? i don't think that's the type of girl any thinks of when they're talking about when they say skinny, i've certainly never seen them used to sell stuff. The only time i've seen girls like that is in thread like this when some girl pulls it out to make some argument that skinny girls are sickening and staving themselves to death. It's the equivalent of me posting this as an example of how disgusting "curvy" women are.

    Dudess Law matey....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57223881&postcount=18

    Inevitable.


  • #40
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    I don't understand why the OP is posting this really, I mean the girl is f*cking gorgeous in the advert, and has a beautiful body. She's obviously just angry that men fancy that type of girl, and she's not like that. Get over it.


  • #41
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    I think any of the girls in any Nivea ad are fookin beautiful.

    But then im a weirdo who watches too much TV and jerks off while my dog watches.


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  • #42
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,867 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Dudess wrote: »
    That line's always thrown out on Boards - it's really sh1tty. If a woman questions the likes of http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/115306.jpg being used to sell products it does not mean there's a good chance she's fat and/or jealous.

    And when you say "skinny women are hot" I'm pretty certain you don't mean women as skinny as the one in the link. Yes, healthy thin can be very attractive but "at death's door" isn't. And it's a serious problem - women have died because of it. That's what the OP's getting at...

    That's a photoshopped pic, although the original isn't THAT far off http://jeanluc.croix.free.fr/comparaisonimages.htm


  • #43
    brianthebard
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    would totally do the original.


  • #44
    scoey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭scoey


    Just got back to Ireland after being away for a year, and from looking around, I'd say that there must be a lot of ads on tv with big fatsos on them, encouraging women to stuff junk food down their throats and do no exercise. I wouldn't be worried about the media encouraging women to be too thin, we are not suffering from an epidemic of thin women, don't worry!


  • #45
    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    scoey wrote: »
    Just got back to Ireland after being away for a year, and from looking around, I'd say that there must be a lot of ads on tv with big fatsos on them, encouraging women to stuff junk food down their throats and do no exercise. I wouldn't be worried about the media encouraging women to be too thin, we are not suffering from an epidemic of thin women, don't worry!

    No, instead we have an epidemic of girls with low self-confidence and serious body issues, a rise in eating disorders and young women who think their entire worth is based on their looks and they're worth nothing if they don't confirm.

    We have an epidemic of girls with too little confidence to go and and compete healthily in sports, instead subscribing to ridiculous diet liks Lipotrim and Celebrity Slim in a desperate attempt to get skinny.

    The amount of judging, analysis and comment that happens over women's bodies, as if they're little more than a commodity, a piece of meat is truly disgusting. And that's only on Boards. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a nice bit of male ass but the difference is that I look admiringly, not critically.

    But thanks for your helpful comment. Care to post up a picture of your own stunning specimen of a male body so that we can poke, prod and pour scorn as well?


  • #46
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    taconnol wrote: »
    But thanks for your helpful comment. Care to post up a picture of your own stunning specimen of a male body so that we can poke, prod and pour scorn as well?

    I personally try and look after myself and I know I'm by no means perfect but I exercise regularly etc. At the end of the day people judge other people's bodies, if you see a fat person you think they eat junk food all day and are lazy etc. It's human nature to do this. I think the blokes on here calling fat chicks disgusting etc are no worse than the girls whingeing about skinny girls on Nivea adds.


  • #47
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Remember that sprite zero ad? With yer one waiting at (what looks like) a train station and some perv spying on her through the security cameras. Throw her a sandwich. Please no woman should be on telly if you can play the washboard on her ribs.


  • #48
    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I personally try and look after myself and I know I'm by no means perfect but I exercise regularly etc. At the end of the day people judge other people's bodies, if you see a fat person you think they eat junk food all day and are lazy etc. It's human nature to do this. I think the blokes on here calling fat chicks disgusting etc are no worse than the girls whingeing about skinny girls on Nivea adds.

    Well my point would be that women's bodies are judged far more than men's. Women's bodies are used to sell stuff to women AND men. Where are all the hot naked men in ads?? All we have to drool over is that Aero guy. Slim pickings. I bet if you were to sit in front of the TV & count how many half-naked men/women you saw, you'd see way more women.

    Plus the male ideal is a hell of a lot healthier than the female ideal.

    How can you compare girls who are identifying this unhealthy trend of using uber-slim models and speaking out about it, with idiotic blokes calling fat chicks disgusting? The latter are adding to the problem and the former are trying to do something about it.


  • #49
    carlybabe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭carlybabe1


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    lol are u serious? i don't think that's the type of girl anyone thinks of when when they say skinny, i've certainly never seen them used to sell stuff. The only time i've seen girls like that is in thread like this when some girl pulls it out to make some argument that skinny girls are sickening and staving themselves to death. It's the equivalent of me posting this as an example of how disgusting "curvy" women are.


    Yes phantom lord, Im a HUGE, a morbidly obese size 12 :rolleyes:, and its difficult to type this cause I cant see over my 34 dd tits, have to rest the laptop on them, very uncomfortable :p
    Seriously though, If you'd bothered to actually read my first post before jumping in with such an intelligent remark, you would have seen the ad I was refering to, and I posted a link to it as well. I wouldnt describe morbidly obese as curvy. Im 5'6" so anything near a size 10 and I start to look like the belsen victim, wher some women are tall and slim and look fantastic, it suits some to have more meat than others, end of. But Im describing bones, I dont want to see someones conformation ffs, its not a horse Im lookin at, and its VERY VERY unhealthy, and not something Id want my daughter to assume is the norm


  • #50
    Macha
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    carlybabe1 wrote: »
    Yes phantom lord, Im a HUGE, a morbidly obese size 12 :rolleyes:, and its difficult to type this cause I cant see over my 34 dd tits, have to rest the laptop on them, very uncomfortable :p

    LOL. I would go a step further carlybabe1 and say that even if the ideal female shape becomes healthier, we still fuss too much over women's bodies. Right, there will always be an ideal, but do we have to be so obsessed?

    I would love men to be subjected to the same sort of intense scrutiny just for a week to see what it feels like. It's no coincidence that the vast majority of people with eating disorders are women.


  • #51
    carlybabe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭carlybabe1


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    skinny women are hot, the op is prob just fat and jealous.

    Yes phantom lord, Im a HUGE, a morbidly obese size 12 :rolleyes:, and its difficult to type this cause I cant see over my 34 dd tits, have to rest the laptop on them, very uncomfortable :p

    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I don't understand why the OP is posting this really, I mean the girl is f*cking gorgeous in the advert, and has a beautiful body.

    Are we talkin bout the same ad? you can see a hole on her chest between her shoulder and her right breast when she moves her arm up, and its from nothing other than lack of muscle :confused:

    She's obviously just angry that men fancy that type of girl, and she's not like that. Get over it.


    Yet another hugely intelligent remark, thanks for your insight, seriously, I dont know how I didnt see it myself, you've opened my (fat) eyes, thanks :rolleyes:
    Sounds to me like your gettin a bit defensive??? Theres nothing wrong with slim, and although men have thier 'types' I genuinely believe that as a whole, men find confidence just as sexy in a woman as body shape (open to correction)

    Seriously though, If you'd bothered to actually read my first post before jumping in with such an intelligent remark, you would have seen the ad I was refering to, and I posted a link to it as well. I wouldnt describe morbidly obese as curvy. Im 5'6" so anything near a size 10 and I start to look like the belsen victim, wher some women are tall and slim and look fantastic, it suits some to have more meat than others, end of. But Im describing bones, I dont want to see someones conformation ffs, its not a horse Im lookin at, and its VERY VERY unhealthy, and not something Id want my daughter to assume is the norm


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  • #52
    pseudonym1
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    Cant imagine these guys have daughters!
    Curves are sexier on women (not talking triple muffin bellys)
    Women were made to have hips ass and boobs that give us that wonderful sexy female shape that differentiates us from men.
    IMO reckon starved chicks look more like teenage boys then women!


  • #53
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    lol are u serious? i don't think that's the type of girl anyone thinks of when when they say skinny, i've certainly never seen them used to sell stuff.
    That's exactly what I said - that the healthy side of skinny is often very attractive and that's no doubt what you are referring to when you say "skinny girls are hot". However the OP is referring to girls who are significantly thinner again... but you of course have to throw out the insulting "you're probably just fat/jealous" line. Yes they are used to sell products - clothes. And I know the Nivea ad the OP's referring to - I was just watching it passively and was also suddenly struck by the sheer boneyness of the woman in it.
    Daithi McGee wrote: »
    Dudess Law matey....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=57223881&postcount=18

    Inevitable.
    Based on my suggestion it might be rather hasty to just leap to the assumption that a girl is fat and jealous due to simply expressing her concern about underweight women being used to sell products? Sorry but I don't see the relevance of "Dudess Law".

    As for my own supposed defence of obesity which you are driving at... actually no, whenever the discussion comes up, I tend to emphasise it's very unhealthy and there's usually no excuse other than excess calories - although psychological issues surrounding food may also be at play.

    However there are a lot of users here who think it's ok to bully, ostracise, ridicule fat people and I simply make the point that it's none of their ****ing business if a person is fat and to leave them alone. Then the convenient "strain on the health service" line is trotted out but that's a load of balls as these people don't give a **** about the health service, they just enjoy belittling someone who looks different.


  • #54
    scoey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭scoey


    taconnol wrote: »
    No, instead we have an epidemic of girls with low self-confidence and serious body issues, a rise in eating disorders and young women who think their entire worth is based on their looks and they're worth nothing if they don't confirm.

    We have an epidemic of girls with too little confidence to go and and compete healthily in sports, instead subscribing to ridiculous diet liks Lipotrim and Celebrity Slim in a desperate attempt to get skinny.

    The amount of judging, analysis and comment that happens over women's bodies, as if they're little more than a commodity, a piece of meat is truly disgusting. And that's only on Boards. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a nice bit of male ass but the difference is that I look admiringly, not critically.

    But thanks for your helpful comment. Care to post up a picture of your own stunning specimen of a male body so that we can poke, prod and pour scorn as well?

    Sounds to me like we have an epidemic of women unable to take responsibility for their own actions/lives. There are more overweight women now than in the past. Is this because of advertisements showing really thin women causing low self esteem? I seriously doubt it. Perhaps it's down to poor diet and lack of exercise and a generally sedentary lifestyle.

    Can't do sports because they have no confidence? Maybe they should try a solitary form of exercise like walking? Maybe they should try cleaning up their diet a bit and drinking less. People with healthy diets and active lives generally do not become fat.

    It's all well and good to blame everything on lack of confidence or media influence, but at some stage people should start taking personal responsibility.

    Also, I hate to break this to you, but women being judged on their looks isn't a recent phenomenon. It's a biological fact that men judge women mostly on looks whereas women have 100 other little things that they also use to sum up a potential mate. In a way I'd say women have it easier than men in this regard. Most of the pictures that are posted of some examples of stick thin people in the media are of catwalk models. Now, I don't know many men who are even remotely interested in the fashion industry or catwalk models. Likewise I don't know many men who are attracted to dangerously thin looking women. But just because our society is heading towards an epidemic of overweight women(and men), it doesn't mean we should all shift the goalposts in terms of what we find attractive, which is a healthy looking woman, that is to say a women who is neither fat nor anorexic looking.


    Nobody is forcing anybody to go on diets like lipotrim. If anything, such diets are representative of the laziness and quick fix mentality of many people nowadays. Don't want to clean up your diet and do regular exercise, making a change to your unhealthy lifestyle? Just starve yourself! It takes years to become very fat, but people expect to lose it all in a couple of weeks. Usually for some event, it seems to me, like a holiday in the sun or a wedding. There doesn't seem to be much concern with actually living a healthy lifestyle. Which is why these diets are often doomed to failure. The person loses the fat but then reverts back to their previous unhealthy diet and gains it all back.

    It's all well and good to throw out snotty comments like "why don't you post pictures of yourself", but they're a bit useless really. I have no desire or intention to post a picture of myself on a public message board. I exercise regularly and am in very good shape, thanks for asking.


  • #55
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Dudess wrote: »
    However there are a lot of users here who think it's ok to bully, ostracise, ridicule fat people and I simply make the point that it's none of their ****ing business if a person is fat and to leave them alone.

    And yet it's OK to refer to a thin person as "belsen victim".

    There's a double standard here somewhere, now if only I could find it.......


  • #56
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    "Belsen victim" - comparative term when a girl is grotesquely underweight, not used to offend.

    And why are people moaning here about how fat people aren't reacted to the way the OP has reacted to extreme skinniness being used to sell products? Are fat people used to sell products or something? :confused:
    pseudonym1 wrote: »
    I encourage ye boys to get over weight issues and preferences
    In fairness, men get a lot of stick in this regard. Women can be as bad about other women. And nobody should feel obliged to fancy someone who's really overweight.


  • #57
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Dudess wrote: »
    "Belsen victim" - comparative term when a girl is grotesquely underweight, not used to offend.

    But offensive nonetheless I imagine.
    Are fat people used to sell products or something? :confused:

    Well Dove cottoned on a while back to the fact that 'normal' (including fat,old and wrinkly) people cost less than your Kate Mosses for ad work and scored some ethical brownie points in the process. :pac:
    In fairness, men get a lot of stick in this regard. Women can be as bad about other women. And nobody should feel obliged to fancy someone who's really overweight.

    +1. If anything women are worse for promoting the skinny image.


  • #58
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    But the belsen term is used in the OP to describe a glowingly healthy girl!


  • #59
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Dudess wrote: »
    "Belsen victim" - comparative term when a girl is grotesquely underweight, not used to offend.

    .

    So you'd be OK with "McDonalds victim" as a comparative term when a girl is grossly overweight, not used to offend.


  • #60
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Oh absolutely fine with it. It's a good phrase actually. Although she wouldn't be a McDonalds victim - she'd have chosen to go into McDonalds and pig out herself... :p
    javaboy wrote: »
    Well Dove cottoned on a while back to the fact that 'normal' (including fat,old and wrinkly) people cost less than your Kate Mosses for ad work and scored some ethical brownie points in the process. :pac:
    Oh that cynical Dove campaign filled me with much rage... :mad:
    And so many women thought it was such a great initiative - wake up girls ffs.
    To be fair though, none of the models they used were fat - average sized with a few wobbles was the biggest.

    To be honest, I don't see a problem with extremely attractive slim women being used to sell products - that's what's required to maximise sales and it's just good business sense. However it becomes problematic when these women look unhealthy - much as it would be problematic if an obese person was used to sell a product (but that's not gonna happen).


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  • #61
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Dudess wrote: »
    "Belsen victim" - comparative term when a girl is grotesquely underweight, not used to offend.

    Because comparing models to concentration camp victims is a normal thing to do? Its dismissive of what happened in Belsen, and its a terrible thing to say about anyone really. yet you justify it because its about a thin girl? (I'm pretty sure she's not grotesquely underweight either).


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