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Thread #93609   Message #1803580
Posted By: Bill D
07-Aug-06 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reality digitally distorted
Subject: RE: BS: Reality digitally distorted
I'll tell you "so what", Clinton..(as if anyone needed to 'justify' a commentary on modern social norms)

Somehow, the advertising industry has some Platonic Ideal of what woman 'should' look like...(perhaps much too influenced by Hugh Hefner's taste for the last 50 years!)...and thus many of the magazine ads and TV commercials seem to be afraid to vary much from a narrow theme.

I suppose if one is selling cosmetics...or lingerie... they want to 'suggest' that the model looks better with THEIR product than without, but I found that programs like "Baywatch" offended my sense of reality...you just don't have that many women of that body type working at beaches! If they'd had some reasonably pretty 32B lifeguards, I might have tuned in a bit more ;>)....

The rule seems to be "If you can manipulate images, you should". In my opinion, too many images of smooth-skinned, extra-voluptuous ladies distort our sense of what to expect.

Max Factor and the Westmore brothers have a lot to answer for! (look it up) (naaawww...I'm not blaming just them)