Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r

I don't know how it is where you live, but here in the US there's been a recent trend in TV advertising to feature very fat women, and especially black women, and more disturbingly a few instances of models who have a form of skin disorder.https://

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Winnie_Harlow_Cannes_2018.jpg/330px-Winnie_Harlow_Cannes_2018.jpgReally thinking about it, *why*, exactly do advertisers think that glimpses of this will help sell their product? Is this approach going
beyond attempts to cater to public tastes, but rather to lead them in directions they'd not otherwise go?https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/02/22/ad-the-day-covergirl-stands-out-featuring-model-with-vitiligoNote the lead-in to the article..."The faces of
beauty are changing and becoming more diverse, as is evidenced by CoverGirl’s latest ad featuring a model with vitiligo, a skin condition in which the skin loses its pigment cells."There's at least one commercial that I've seen several times that has a
fast (.5 sec) shot of a really extreme example of this condition on an otherwise aesthetically pleasing black female model. I, for one, will never come to think of this condition, vitiligo, as anything other than a deformity. It's actually repellent. So
those inflicted could possibly be perfectly decent people, but you'd want to have nothing to do with them. A lot like leprosy.This makes it an ironic, tragic situation, but that's life.Suspicious minds may drift towards the idea that the broad TV
audience is being prepped for trans-models, and we'll all be celebrating a wonderful new era in diversity. Until that wonderful time, we can be content that these commercials appeal to the woke, who, on seeing the image, hold down their gorge and say to
each other, weakly:"Oh. Isn't she *pretty*?...".-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"The food at the new restaurant was awful--but at least the portionswere large!" --Sawfish



Ugly is the new beautiful.


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