Are you beach body ready?

Zonda999 wrote: »

As a viewpoint on modern Western society, the whole ad campaign, subsequent moral outrage and supposed upsurge in sales for the product involved was an interesting one but the fundamentals of it are fairly obvious as far as I can tell

For a start, the fact that society find images of the model like the one that appeared on the ad campaign, attractive is hardly nothing new is it? To me it seemed like somehow (From the moral outrage angle), that the ad was somehow "fat-shaming"? (And I came across that phrase on a Daily "article" on the whole thing I might add). How so though? As a previous poster on the topic mentioned on the last thread on this on After Hours, what next? Will we see people protesting outside gyms and fitness centres because the people going to these places are somehow "fat-shaming also" by trying to improve themselves physically?

Secondly, about the supposed surge in sales of the product after the ad campaign, no one was forcing anyone to buy the product, make what you will of the people that bought the stuff, it was their own decision with their own money. Its almost as if the same people who took offense at the ad in the first place, were appalled that people bought into the idea that they might want to improve themselves physically, which I think is pathetic to be honest

Been meaning to start a debate about this for a while.

As someone who was formerly massively overweight and who is now trying to get big in the bodybuilder sense of the word, there is nothing, and I really mean nothing, more irritating than the anti-self improvement crowd who throw the "just accept yourself the way you are", "you don't need to be popular / sexually attractive / whatever", "you don't want to go too far down that road" etc at you. Really.

Nobody has the right to say that to me, as far as I'm concerned. Nobody knows what kind of bullying I might have gone through because of my body, nobody knows what kind of bitter rejection I might have suffered because the other guy was more conventionally attractive, nobody knows what activities I may have never felt comfortable taking part in because they would have involved going shirtless, etc.

If you're comfortable with yourself I 100% respect that. I wish I could be. But telling people who are unhappy not being part of the conventional crowd or whatever that they should just learn to live with it, is extremely dangerous. In my case it led to a very insidious flirtation with anorexia as my desire to self-improve took a backseat to my desire to defy those who seemed to be trying to stand in my way. The moment when any kind of self improvement drive stops being about actual self improvement and starts being about proving a point, even if that actually means DIS-improvement, is the moment at which it becomes something dangerous.

And the "you're fine just the way you are, stop trying to be something you're not" idiots are the ones who pushed me from healthy, positive self improvement, to negative, bitter "nobody tells me what to do with my body, and just to prove it, I'm going to keep losing weight just to piss you off".

Now I'm not saying I don't bear responsibility for screwing that up - my personality and my stubbornness were the ultimate cause. But the point is…IF someone is trying a self-improvement drive, a lot of the time it's because whatever aspect of themselves they feel the need to improve has caused social rejection in the past. And in that context, telling them "just accept yourself the way you are" translates to "you'll never be popular, you're going to have to live with that".

Where teenagers are involved, that latter statement - even though it often isn't what's intended by the person making it - is more than enough to drive someone off the rails and into the territories of blind, self destructive madness.

Let the feminist / SJW rats be offended. Good. Protein World made an absolute killing from their rat behaviour.

Had they, you know, JUST LEFT PEOPLE THE FUCK ALONE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES none of this would have happened.

But no - let's whine and moan like rats because other people want things that are different to what we want.

My body isn't ready for the beach but I would never accuse anybody of body shaming me because they're appealing to people who actually take pride in maintaining their bodies.

Grow up Harriet was the perfect response. I would have also said, "stop being a rat."

Your mileage may vary.

My body is Bulmers pint bottle ready

Chickentown wrote: »

I bet the bodice ripper is far from ripped

Fit as **** from the brain stem up and the elbows down.

Anyway, even if I were ripped (which I am not, never was, never will be), I think I would still be disinclined to lie around in the space borne, carcinogenic, radiation. Plus it would be bad for my tattoos.

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

In your 20's that is understandable, it's all go, go, go. When you've had 5 jobs in the last 6 years plus whatever you can get on the side and not even time and money for a holiday, things look different.
I have thoroughly learnt to appreciate the true value of boredom. Boredom is marvelous, wondrous thing. It tells you that everything is working away, everything is on course and there's no immediate fires to be put out. After the white knuckle ride that was my life until about a year ago, I crave nothing more than boredom and a beach holiday.
I could just about spend a year on a beach with nothing more to do than read books, go for the occasional swim and maybe consider going for something to eat. I might never got off that beach again. Another Pina Colada? Why yes, yes I will!

+1

Beach body ready, I am in my bollox. Shur what's the point, Christmas is only 7 months away

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I'm beach ready, beached whale that is.

I can't sun myself at the beach any more. Everyone keeps dragging me down into the water.