Everybody Needs To Stop The ‘Plus-Sized Models Are Awesome’ Garbage

The Daily Caller ^ | July 27, 2017 | David Hookstead

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

There is a national tragedy sweeping across America, and it promptly needs to come to an end.

For some inexplicable reason, American entertainment outlets think male consumers are entertained by “plus-sized” models. They’re not. Trust me when I say that there’s a reason men read the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit magazine, and it has nothing to do with the seemingly unending supply of bigger models.

Naturally, I’m not suggesting that obese women are bad people. Obviously that’s not the case, and it’d be a lazy critique of my argument to even attempt to boil it down to that.

My point is very simple. Men love football, alcohol and the women in bikinis that they don’t see walking around the town. If I can look out the windows of my office building and see six people similar to a woman featured in Sports Illustrated, then put simply, that woman has no business being in Sports Illustrated.

SI’s Instagram account recently featured Tabria Majors, who is a “plus-sized” model.

[raybbr]

No you’ve been brainwashed by the Gay mafia that runs the fashion and entertainment industry to lust after anorexic women who look like hairless ten year old boys. It never ceases to amaze me how men who hate women and who lust after other men have been able to teach heterosexual men to lust after skinny, formless women who look like young boys, but they have. I tip my hat to them.

LOL. You're really reaching there. I see those women and they are not attractive to me. They look unhealthy. Basically accusing me of being gay by some mind trick played by fags is the truly creepy thing you've said. I've always like healthy women. Even thin women. All my life. I wasn't "taught" to like them. It's the way I am. Your irrational accusations reveal YOU be the one who can't accept that people can prefer something other than what YOU like.

[proud American in Canada]

Elle has the best smile, but overall, I’d have to go with Rebecca. ;)

*Must turn on an ep of Friends* LOL! (They both appeared in the show).

That being said, all of those women are stunning.

[garandgal]

I collect items from the early 1900's-through the 50's including pin-up art. The women portrayed on bomber nose-art, postcards, advertising, etc. were not fat or even slightly overweight.

Where the idea that these plus-size models represent what used to be the norm for the desirable female form came from is beyond me. It's demonstrably false but for a few exceptions i.e. the occasional "burlesque" performer.

Google Vargas, Petty, WWII nose art etc. The closest you will get to very slightly full-figured is Elvgren...

[Freedom56v2]

Sure, they look good now, but wait till they have their first kid and all that fat starts to look like hail damage.

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Interesting because when I see men with their wives and first child, often they have a fairly good sized paunch going...sometimes with a receding hairline as well ;)

[Freedom56v2]

Wonder if any of the FRaliban would dare post current pictures of themselves.

I suspect few would measure up to the societal standards of what makes for a sexy man—equivalent standards they have set for women...

I seriously doubt most of them come close to People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive 2017 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson ;)

[T-Bone Texan]

I almost saw labia.

Thank you so much!

[Newbomb Turk]

Interesting because when I see men with their wives and first child, often they have a fairly good sized paunch going...sometimes with a receding hairline as well ;)

You must shop at Walmart.

I can't speak for everyone else. I'm a 57 year old bodybuilder and gym owner.

[Freedom56v2]

So yeah, I do shop at Walmart as do many of my neighbors. Where do YOU shop for stuff like paper towels and laundry detergent in upscale Nebraska**???

I shop at Walmart because I do like to save money, and I don’t like Target anymore due to their transgender bathroom policy. Oh I also shop at Menards, Lowes and Home Depot for deals. But I also shop at specialty stores as well. Again, where do YOU shop??

Since you lobbed that snarky comment “You Must Shop At Walmart” ...I live in an upscale suburb of Chicago which has a Walmart...but it also has some of the top schools in the state, best library in country, excellent restaurants, #2 on Places Rated, top family town, etc...Oh and I see younger men with receding hairlines and paunch at these places as well as walking around our lovely downtown and in my neighborhood...To be able to afford to live here, I am guessing they are aspiring doctors and lawyers and upper management types.

No, you can’t speak for everyone, and I am glad you are in great shape and own a gym—but I suspect you, special one, are the exception to the average 57 year old...I am not much older, and I know no body builders aged 57 or otherwise—I see a lot of diversity in the way men in their 60s have aged BTW. However, if true and you look as you did in your 20s—as good as The Rock, then please feel free to continue with the slams on average sized women who have had children. However, the reality is that many men who are so critical of women after they have had children really should not throw stones but rather look in the mirror and focus on their own self improvement.

I like to provide facts...Note that the average dress size of model is now 0-2, height 5’10” and weight 115 lbs and according to Supermodel model Cindy Crawford, that model dress size has gone down over the past few decades...

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/19/high-fashion-low-bmi-424763.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378849/Size-10-normal-size-Cindy-Crawford-talks-todays-shrinking-models-tougher-industry-now.html

However, the average woman in USA is size 14 or 18 depending on where you read...

Surprisingly, the average woman is only 5.4” yet weighs 166 lbs.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/357769-weight-height-for-the-average-american-woman/

http://www.today.com/style/what-s-average-size-16-new-normal-us-women-t103315

Again, I am not endorsing that height to weight ratio, and I know there is a lot of diversity within those numbers between race and age. I do think millennials are placing more emphasis on fitness than many 60 year olds did when they were in their 20s, a good thing. However,the models in magazines really are not representative of most US women...and many of the men in GQ aren’t representative of the average US male either.

Average male is 5’9.5” and weighs 195.5 lbs; however, the average male model is between 5’9” and 6’3” and weighs 120-170 lbs.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/355196-the-ideal-weight-for-a-6-foot-male-model/

https://www.livestrong.com/article/289265-what-is-the-average-adult-male-height/

I suspect the move to include some “plus-sized” models is so they may more closely reflect the typical consumer.

I am not endorsing or advocating for obesity, and some of those models pictured are clearly obese by medical standards, i.e., not healthy. Health should be the goal...especially as we we age, when our biochemistry, body type, and life priorities factor into our appearance.

I note you didn’t take up the suggestion that all the men on the thread should post pictures of themselves, tho.

**Business must be good...Nebraska is ranked middle level obesity state with 30-34% obesity. So you have your work cut out for you...

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-are-the-fattest-states-in-america-2015-12

[deadrock]

You are missing the point by requesting FR men to publish a photo of themselves because they disagree with the notion that only females decide what constitutes female beauty.

And I don't know of a campaign were overweight men are being pushed on women, non stop through the media, followed up by chastising women who throw up a little in their mouths.

There is no male campaign forcing women to except a man's concept of male handsomeness.

On top of that, men will admit when they are overweight/fat and rather work on forcing women to accept it as been being the new normal, they hit the gym.