"Size Zero"

speedboatchase · 15-04-2010 03:35PM #1

Jesus christ - it's Size 4! What is with all these articles about body image etc talk about how someone is a healthy size 10, 12 etc in "today's size zero culture". Irish media - stop using American dress sizes to generate shock headlines and distort a genuine discussion that needs to happen AND take a balanced view instead of punishing those who undereat over the (vast majority) who overeat. Case in point yesterday's Herald

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/toothin-model-banned-from-xpose-live-2136898.html

""Overseas, they would probable embrace the look, but here in Ireland, they're pushing for healthier looking models ranging from a size 10 to 14."

Next paragraph - "As the international fashion industry is in upheaval over the constant barrage of emaciated models on the runway, Irish retailers are taking a stand against the persistent size zero trend"

Basically they want you to subconciously think the model was fired5-6 dress sizes smaller than what was required :rolleyes:

Fago! · 15-04-2010 03:37PM

Size zero girls are rotten! Their skrawny body and malnnourished look! Yuck!

I love a girl with a bit of meat on her!

Sykk · 15-04-2010 03:38PM

I'd brake her with me Mickey!

corkcomp · 15-04-2010 03:43PM

size 0 is not good. Obese is not good .. most people have their own in between preferences

spudmonkey17 · 15-04-2010 03:45PM

Sykk wrote: »

I'd brake her with me Mickey!

If it wasn't for that comment I'd have thought I had stumbled into the wrong forum... :pac:

Fago! · 15-04-2010 03:46PM

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/size0Model_285x450.jpg

Fuhcking rotten!

Novella · 15-04-2010 03:49PM

Fago! wrote: »

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/size0Model_285x450.jpg

Fuhcking rotten!

:eek:

Noopti · 15-04-2010 03:49PM

Jaysus, i'm not too picky but I wouldn't slip her a length.....

dylano_k · 15-04-2010 03:50PM

Im not a size 0, im a size O...round bastard

petes · 15-04-2010 03:51PM

Fago! wrote: »

Size zero girls are rotten! Their skrawny body and malnnourished look! Yuck!

I love a girl with a bit of meat on her!

I love a girl with a bit of meat in her!!

alwaysadub · 15-04-2010 03:52PM

Fago! wrote: »

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/size0Model_285x450.jpg

Fuhcking rotten!

I actually thought it was one of them ads you see for third world countries when i glanced at her first :eek:

Fago! · 15-04-2010 03:53PM

Insurgent wrote: »

I love a girl with a bit of meat in her!!

http://www.w3bbo.com/forums/Blank-Facepalm.gif

Noopti · 15-04-2010 03:53PM

Maybe Bob Geldof should organise a concert to help these size 0 models.

Live Ate....nothing

ibarelycare · 15-04-2010 03:54PM

Completely agree OP. It's obviously just for dramatic effect, but it makes no sense to chop and change between UK and American sizes within one article. Really bugs me!

ibarelycare · 15-04-2010 03:56PM

Fago! wrote: »

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/size0Model_285x450.jpg

Fuhcking rotten!

:eek:

Jesus they could have done a better job with her makeup to at least make her FACE look healthy! Those dark circles and bags under her eyes are awful.

bonerm · 15-04-2010 03:56PM

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin.....

15-04-2010 03:59PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

Jesus christ - it's Size 4!

No it isnt....it is age 10-11 in this country.

pickarooney · 15-04-2010 04:00PM

What a clever reference to a topical film about child murder there. Bravo Caitlin.

Joey the lips · 15-04-2010 04:03PM

For years women have been telling men that size does not matter..... This proves otherwise....

My other half's size is her own business(and mine if I am buying her underware

) but regardless of size you will either love them or will not.

i agree with the op it is madness but like a 36DD bust on page 3... Size Zero sells a lot of womens magazines

So unfor its only women who can stop this....

Resi12 · 15-04-2010 04:04PM

Fago! wrote: »

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/size0Model_285x450.jpg

Fuhcking rotten!

I'm sure she is a Size 00 (Yes there is such a thing).

Wurly · 15-04-2010 04:21PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

For years women have been telling men that size does not matter..... This proves otherwise....

My other half's size is her own business(and mine if I am buying her underware ) but regardless of size you will either love them or will not.

i agree with the op it is madness but like a 36DD bust on page 3... Size Zero sells a lot of womens magazines

So unfor its only women who can stop this....

I think (and hope) that the tide is changing with regards to this whole size zero shyte.

I do fully agree that this is a problem that women have created by buying rags like Heat Magazine et al. Most men wouldn't have a clue about dress sizes. If a girl looks good, then she looks good - end of.

It's infuriating to me that women do this to each other though. I remember watching a documentary before about a modeling agency and the agent was telling this emaciated model that she needed to lose more weight and had noticed that she was starting to get 'fat'. The agent was about a size 20. Fookin ridiculous.

However, as a female, it's very hard not to get roped into all of this too. I am about a size 12 i'd say and I still am partial to the odd hang up about looking 'fat'. The more rational part of me says that size 12 is no-where near fat. Sure wasn't Marilyn Monroe lusted after the world over and she was a size 16.

It seems that every decade, there is a new trend for girls to obsess over. I remember in the 90's it was all about big boobs and cleavage. Now it's this ridiculous size 0 thing.

The fact remains - keep buying the trash media that pushes this kind of thing on women and the problem will continue.

artanevilla · 15-04-2010 04:24PM

Fago! wrote: »

Size zero girls are rotten! Their skrawny body and malnnourished look! Yuck!

I love a girl with a bit of meat on her!

I prefer a girl with a bit of meat in her.

ibarelycare · 15-04-2010 04:28PM

Trí wrote: »

I think (and hope) that the tide is changing with regards to this whole size zero shyte.

I do fully agree that this is a problem that women have created by buying rags like Heat Magazine et al. Most men wouldn't have a clue about dress sizes. If a girl looks good, then she looks good - end of.

It's infuriating to me that women do this to each other though. I remember watching a documentary before about a modeling agency and the agent was telling this emaciated model that she needed to lose more weight and had noticed that she was starting to get 'fat'. The agent was about a size 20. Fookin ridiculous.

However, as a female, it's very hard not to get roped into all of this too. I am about a size 12 i'd say and I still am partial to the odd hang up about looking 'fat'. The more rational part of me says that size 12 is no-where near fat. Sure wasn't Marilyn Monroe lusted after the world over and she was a size 16.

It seems that every decade, there is a new trend for girls to obsess over. I remember in the 90's it was all about big boobs and cleavage. Now it's this ridiculous size 0 thing.

The fact remains - keep buying the trash media that pushes this kind of thing on women and the problem will continue.

Actually the Marilyn Monroe thing is just a much-believed myth!

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6044724.ece

ibarelycare · 15-04-2010 04:29PM

artanevilla wrote: »

I prefer a girl with a bit of meat in her.

That was only slightly funny the first time:

Insurgent wrote: »

I love a girl with a bit of meat in her!!

artanevilla · 15-04-2010 04:31PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

That was only slightly funny the first time:

Ah I really only read the first three posts.

Wurly · 15-04-2010 04:32PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

Actually the Marilyn Monroe thing is just a much-believed myth!

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6044724.ece

FOOK!:pac:

/illusions shattered!!

Well then, Rubenesque women were all the rage at one stage and were considered beautiful...:)

And show me one man that wouldn't fancy a fumble with Nigella Lawson. And she has curves!:)

Fago! · 15-04-2010 04:37PM

artanevilla wrote: »

I prefer a girl with a bit of meat in her.

It's been done!

Insurgent wrote: »

I love a girl with a bit of meat in her!!

:rolleyes:

ibarelycare wrote: »

That was only slightly funny the first time:

No it wasn't! :P

Rented Mule · 15-04-2010 04:43PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

:eek:

Jesus they could have done a better job with her makeup to at least make her FACE look healthy! Those dark circles and bags under her eyes are awful.

Don't be surpirsed if they airbrushed those circles under her eyes to help with the shock value.

Joey the lips · 15-04-2010 04:49PM

ibarelycare wrote: »

Actually the Marilyn Monroe thing is just a much-believed myth!

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article6044724.ece

Now with due respect you have effectivly added to the stigma women suffer without realising it...and you have shattered the posters illusion

Why?

For example.... A man never discusses brad pitts waist size or tom cruises height.(even though he is small)....why? Yes a man sees that women see them good looking but a man says right I need to get fit... but he does not say I need 32 waist or a 36" waist because we know that arnie's waist is hugh compared to tom cruise but they both have attributes that make them apealing to men.

where as a women equates another women as being goodlooking because of the attributes that we are discussing... For example I must be a size zero... My otherhalf was less than a size zero when i met her. she is more now but is no less apealing...

PeterIanStaker · 15-04-2010 04:51PM

That Daily Mail photo looks like a Belsen horror. :eek:

This is the image that is being displayed to already - insecure young girls/women?

Its plain wrong.

2ygb4cmqetsjhx · 15-04-2010 04:55PM

Trí wrote: »

FOOK!:pac:

/illusions shattered!!

Well then, Rubenesque women were all the rage at one stage and were considered beautiful...:)

And show me one man that wouldn't fancy a fumble with Nigella Lawson. And she has curves!:)

Awwwww baby. just googled. That is the type of milf ass that makes me drool. Big boobs too. I want her to mother me!!!

"Size Zero"

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