Posted on 02/18/2022 8:06:52 AM PST by BusterDog
Sofía Jirau is making history in the modeling world. The 25-year-old woman from Puerto Rico is one of the newest models for Victoria's Secret — and is the first model in the company's history to have Down syndrome.
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I HATE virtue signalling... and this is an especially appalling example.
~ 1-2 % of Down’s Syndrome patients are called “Mosiac” which means only a percentage of their cells have trisomy 21.
These people can be high functioning and independent people.
The classic features of Down’s Syndrome are less noticeable and they can be cognitively intact and able to make decisions for themselves.
Caring for many Down’s patients, having someone like her in a position of celebrity, I think will make many people with Down’s very happy. I think its a win win.
It does reek of exploitation of this girl. When some fat girl like Ashley Graham is plastered everywhere in a bikini at least she knows what’s going on and is OK with it, same with the trannies. I’m not sure this girl really understands that she’s being used for her disability to virtue signal.
EXPLOITATION, absolutely! How many executives at Victoria’s Secret have Down Syndrome?
How many designers at Victoria’s Secret have Down Syndrome?
This young lady has a nice figure and BOOBS!
THAT is why this particular Down Syndrome woman was chosen.
Also she must be a high functioning Down Syndrome (I guess the Down Syndrome Community HATES that term)
I also found this:
“Originally Answered: Can people with Down’s syndrome have a high IQ? Explain.
One person I know with DS has an IQ equal to mine. She became a veterinarian.
So yes.
All you have to do is preserve the beneficially wired neurons in the fetal brain during the pruning phase of infant development, which is from birth to two years of age. In DS, elevated levels of hydrogen peroxide from over-expressed SOD-1 on the 21st chromosome causes excessive apoptosis. This begins when infants are born and start breathing air for the first time. So if you start at birth and keep the peroxide-scavenging systems at full induction, the over-pruning of brain neurons following birth is normalized and IQ is preserved. This involves preventing both iron and selenium insufficiencies. Iron is the cofactor for catalase. Selenium is the cofactor for glutathione peroxidase. If iron and selenium are not insufficient, catalase and glutathione peroxidase induction is optimized. This prevents the vast majority of brain over-pruning and normalizes IQ such that the second and third standard deviation on the IQ curve is still well populated.
A deeper and longer explanation can be found in the Down’s Syndrome Collection, an 85-page free PFD download at Project Wellbeing (on the “Steve” page).”
http://projectwellbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/DSCollection.pdf
However,if I was a juror in a civil action in which she,or her estate,was seeking damages for having been unfairly exploited I'd be voting "guilty" or "responsible".
IMO no person with Down's Syndrome can reasonably consent to something like this....just as an "intoxicated" woman cannot consent to sex.
“Somebody, please roll Jennifer out and prop her up on the bed."
LOL, yes I am a practicing physician. I have also played in various live bands throughout my life, most predominantly swing bands. When I subbed for this one rock band, the lead singer called me “swingdoc”. He has since passed away and my screen name is a tribute to him. TMI maybe?
There are examples of Down’s patients being able to give informed consent. Informed consent is a person’s baseline right, unless it is pulled from them by a third party. It is a case by case decision, but in a court case for example, if the person in question had been deemed able to give informed consent, I cannot see how exploitation would move forward.
It is all very interesting in this complex world we live in.
I am still happy for her. Even the most severe patients with Down’s have excellent self awareness (until later in life if they get Alzheimer’s) and a great understanding of their life and their role in their surrounding society.
My attitude comes largely from the many interactions I've had with Down's Syndrome patients working for a hospital that I'll bet you've heard of.
Just sayin'...
Other pictures of her show bad teeth. That look in her picture is the best you're going to get until a dental makeover.
Overall I say good for her, not so good for Victoria's secret.
I have a couple of friends with kids who have developmental brain disabilities, but are high functioning. I applaud any employer who will give them a chance. Those parents worry every day what will become of their kids once they are gone.
She must have an extremely very mild case of down syndrome.
She is hardly the norm.
In my opinion, fronting a person with a disability in a skimpy outfit (that they have no control over), is exploitative. We hear feminists groups whining about Victoria Secret all of the time. Do they not see the irony?
Was the girl with DS okay with it? Did she have the cognitive ability to know what she was doing? Or did her family or friends or propagandists or the magazine and corporate entities push her into it to make a point and to gain woke points? No, it is exploitative and no different that dressing a child up in a skimpy outfit to sell sex.
Personally, I find it unpalatable, and not from a priggish perspective. I get the impression you must feel somewhat the way I do.
She is not a bad looking woman, and I don’t know her at all (obviously) but it feels like pandering or something along those lines.
I might feel the same way if she were an amputee instead.
Whatever it is for her, I hope she finds happiness.
These kinds of magazines can be sexually exploitative in the first place and it is bad to throw a “innocent” naive person (a “child”) into a situation like this. Does she understand what this magazine sells and why? If not, then maybe a guardian made the decision for her.
I predict that she will be “discarded” once her usefulness ends.
I don’t know. Without knowing her personally, it is impossible to answer. As many people have said, the effects of Down’s Syndrome are variable, and some people might be undistinguishable except for the slight physical characteristics that might be seen in their face.
I don’t like it, but...that’s me. It is everything but her and her own Downs Syndrome about it that has a bad flavor to me. Seems too much like virtue signaling to be genuine. And the unknown component of her awareness. Don’t like it.
Yes. What bothers me the most is that the same people who complain about the exploitation of women, have nothing to say about it. Heck, they might even support it.
Just proves that the people who whine the most can be the biggest offenders.
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