The fashion industry is still pushing crazy thin body images

I am extremely skinny and look unhealthy and kinda similar to the model in that way, even though I eat normally and I think even very healthy. My dad looks like that too. Being 2 meters tall also doesn't exactly help. Just saying that you shouldn't judge people so easily and you can hurt someone also pretty easily. Some people just have being fat or skinny in their genes.

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I think it's a bit distasteful to armchair diagnose someone you don't know, though

Meh, I dated a girl thinner than that. People were always making comments like yours, but to her face.

She had one barely functioning kidney. Dumped her because she was foul tempered, but I heard she got a transplant!

But yes, eating disorder is a fair guess for a model like that.

I used to look like that from ages 15 to 30. I was eating 6000 calories a day to maintain my weight. I don't know about that dude (dude is gender neutral), but it is possible they are struggling to not lose weight. Unlikely, but possible.

It's a growing demographic

And they're advertising sacks to them?!

Moisturize me!

They're just walking hangers which are sometimes decorated.

if it’s not my body, it’s none of my fucking business.

Please don't be obtuse. When it gets put into an ad campaign aimed at me and the 99.9% of other people where looking like would be extremely bad for our own personal health, it becomes our business.

Look at it another way, a year ago would you have said to an antivaxxer / antimasker "who am I to judge"? The effects here are much more subtle and take more time, but the same logic applies, and the results of inaction are no less insidious.

So sure, all right, maybe a single person might be all right without a vaccine/without a mask/eating only 30 calories a day, but that is not something that should be encouraged. And the dumbass republicans/marketers who spread this behavior should be called out and shamed.

Health. Hurts a bit knowing all those teen girls out there feel like shit because of some tiny "imperfection". Hurts a bit that we don't tell people whose weight is not what medical science is recommending to adjust it.

I am a fat guy, I am doing well on my diet. My doctor was honest, if I don't lose the weight she is going to have to start talking about medications.

While it's true that you hit a point of diminishing returns, there's a sharp divide between, say, a $200 bag and a $20 bag. Technically a plastic shopping bag will serve the same purpose as a purse, but it's likely to break in less than a day. A $20 bag might last a few months of daily use if you're careful, but it's going to have cheap/non-durable materials, have cheap findings, and be poorly made. At $200, the odds are pretty high that it's going to be well made, use solid materials that will last, and have fittings that aren't going to corrode, fall off, or break in a few months.

I have a designer wallet that I've used every day for over 15 years, and while it looks beat up, it's still fully intact. I averaged about one every 3-4 years before I got this one.

See also: Cap'n Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Because they get to show off. Other people see it and they feel bad for not having access to the resources required to do this. And you know what? All of us do this shit in some way or another. Fancy cars, vanity muscles that don't actually help you, talent in things that have no real practical value, fancy collections, big house. All of us are performing, trying to tell the world "I am so amazing I can afford this waste". And if we have nothing to brag about we can always brag about our indifference. As if all of us secretly didn't wish deep down that they had so much money they could spend $2k on what should be 20.

I think you understand it perfectly fine, you just don't like what it implies about us all.

I just don’t understand the appeal of paying $3,000 for a handbag when a $20 handbag will can do just the same thing.

The appeal is that a $3,000 handbag sends a signal, one that you have $3,000 to spend on a handbag and are the type of person who would do such a thing.

So why do people buy 3000 dollar mechanical watches when a 20 quartz dollar watch can keep time better? Why do people buy 300 dollar mechanical keyboards when a 20 dollar rubber dome can also get words on your PC screen? Why do people spend thousands of dollars on Magic the Gathering cards when you can buy the same number of cards for 20 dollars?

Being into designer fashion isn't much different than other expensive hobbies, and the cost benefit of a hobby item is the last thing on the mind of any enthusiast provided they can afford it.

If you have many millions of dollars lying around it might make sense, for the same reason it might make sense to a normal person to spend a few dollars on an item they could instead spend 50 cents for a cheaper version of if they wait a few months for slow shipping from China. What a pricetag means to you changes depending on how much you have to spend.

Yes, but you and I aren't the market for these. There are a lot of dumb, impressionable people, and some of them have money too.

I like these brands cuz they're like "from the rich, to the rich" kind of things. It has nothing to do with the rest of us. And we don't understand them either, like I recently bought some nice looking shoes made in probably some Chinese factory and they're gonna last me for years. Same thing with some branded shoes just more expensive, it's not they last longer or anything either cuz planned obsolescence.

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Right?

Capitalism is the single most reasonable and best type of best typing creating system. It is very reasonable, it could be even more reasonable than it already is, but too much reasonablenes is bad becuase uh competing in games is what brings out the best in people and everybody knows it, capitalism has been increasing the amount of increasing amounts very efficiently so that everybody got richer, that's the best part the more everybody tries to take away as most money from everybody else is a great idea because if everything is improved then EVERYTHING is improved! I win, you win everybody wins all the time in capitalism, that's why when i sell things to you and take your money then you also made more money and it is compounding, it is very easy to see because it is every year removing more inflation and it is so efficient now that next year the inftlation will also be even everything since we all agreed that it was a great idea to let optimize human emotions by only using the two best ones, in accordance with exactly what is said in the Big Book of Capitalism that everyone has at home and has read, the fact that it is so incredibly well defined and clear about the simplicity, like the bible, but better, because better, is why it is so efficient!

BEST EMOTIONS (for capitalism): GREED: WANTING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE OF EVERYTHING REGARDLESS WHAT IT IS FOREVER AND REGARDLESS WHAT ONE HAS (1 GOOD = GOOD 2 GOOD=GOODGOOD (1 = 1, 2= 2, 1<2 QED)

STRIFE: IF WE FIGHT WITH EACH OTHER FOREVER, THEN NOBODY WILL EVER WIN BECAUSE EVERYONE BECOMES BETTER EVERY TIME AND THIS MAKES EVERYBODY EQUAL

GREED+STRIFE=I WILL FIGHT YOU FOREVER TO TAKE AS MUCH AS I CAN FROM YOU FOREVER AND THAT WILL MAKE ME EVEN BETTER ATT FIGHTING YOU AND GET EVEN BETTER FOREVER

As opposed to DUMB-DOH-CRAzY (amirite i am reit all who like capitalism subscribe more is better for everything otherwise the word wouldn't be called "BETTER" and "MORE FASTER" but the other way around doooooh) that uses only the worst least money making emotions that science has shown is more worthlessler than even no money! The best emotions are greed and competition and the only ones necessary to run a planet, everyone has known that since they began to planet, the most socially advantageous human emotions in history of emotions, this is universally agreed upon by science and my looking out the window. Out of all of the human emotions that humans have emotioned, those two are much more efficient at increasing the amount of capitalism increases. Maybe we should improve capitalism, by maybe also introducing hatred and violent tendencies, this might increase everybodys money so much that the amount of money we all get so much more of, just keeps staying exactly mostly optimized evertim!

Producing more selling also would be good. Can we produce capitalism and sell? The product will sell itself, because of its inherent efficiency and always coming up with the best type of society, and since capitalism obviously is the perfect answer,it must be selling itself an run basically every facet of society and replace most of the moral discourse part of history from around hm -84 and is the single to replace them. I also loved that we decided to value everything else with money as well, and now that it is the only thing that matters, and we stand before a system collapse of ecology, society, humanity, fuck it just burn it. Money is the single most efficient system of any kind of system that has ever been invented, and it can be used for everything! From measuring how much you have earned in relation to others, and if more, then that means that you are a better person and citizen, and should get more power over how we run things, it's very fair to everyone, and makes the most competent people, the experts of everything. Oh sorry I forgot, the thing where a system of running absolutely fucking everything EVERYTHING is money, and if one nation fails to beat their own record from last year, then every other country has more to make even more with the other more they had and so now you are punished for being the worst least more than last most countries, which is backwards. Morally. You made your nation, a worse place, by not making your nation a better then than you could have improved it, and must be punished because you are messing with the whole world's money-record to make more money every year than earned slightly less than the other nations, less best more best than last bests mosts mosts per year than last year.

The best part was when everyone was like, yeaaahs! The most ruthless people who can "IMPROVE" the planet in an even besterer bestest mostest ways, then they can get a bonus so they get a bonus bonus to their bonus bonus bonus. And this is great. This is exactly the way it should work, AND it's easily observable. Look! Is the world not a even more fantasticarally fantastical fantasyland than the other year when the world got slightly less more awesome and better which sucks, so now I can't affort food, rent or medicines, and buy all the fantastict things that capitalism has improved better and cheaper somethow, than any other system has ever been able to improve as MUCH MOSTER PER THE BEST of the BEST year holy shit I love this planet and humanity it was true! Capitalism makes EVERYTHING BETTER, FOR EVERYONE, FOREVER, AND IT ONLY MAKES EVEN BETTERER BETTEREREST THAN BETTERESTESTISTASTET!

I can almost not handle the paradise it has created like it promised, and since I and everyone can see, that it was not a scam to take everything away from everyone, and giving it to the one guy BEST one, and improve democracy so much , that we might as well just get rid of democracy and use capitalism, it will always make the besterest improvemenst of everything.

Toothbrushes are my favorite thing that got only forever got better than slightly less better than how much better this years tootbrushes became. I don't even brush my teeth anymore, my toothbrush went to work instead of me, and believe you this- my toothbrush just got the bestest superbestest increase of perfection then all the other times,

One last thing, have you realized how much capitalism has improved the amount of capitalism one can build? Its' pretty clever, capitalism first destroys everything underneath, say, South America, and then effectivizes the previous lack of extra space for even MORE capitalism. I have actually stopped eating. I don't need food. I eat only capitalism now, and more and more per day than the morest days of my old bad food days.

Edit: I refuse to even proof read that. But I'm sure it more or less summarizes some of the best parts with capitalism, there are more of course, because capitalism aslo always improves itself the most first, every year, forever. Good night.

I looked a lot like that as a teenager while going through some growth spurts. I ate like an elephant (1990s taco tuesdays at Taco Bell we’d each get a 12 pack after school), but I was still 150-160 at 6’3” (60 something kilos and 190something cm).

This person might be a little lighter, but I couldn’t put on muscle to save my life back then. Not till I was in my 20s did I get above 170.

Edit: forgot how to divide by 2.2…

Is Prada trying to bring back the baggy suit look? Please no, it was horrible.

Weight aside, that haircut is atrocious.

I agree completely. Same with the long fingernails and huge boob implants! Why would you choose to make yourself more useless? It seems so silly...

There are some truly skinny people, but most don't look this emaciated. If they showed different body types, then you might have something.

5/7

Girl, but okay.

No, that's not the marketing message you should get from this. 100 years of marketing data shows that making people feel bad about themselves in any way they can (styles change for that), makes people want to buy clothing that "the in people" are wearing.

I'm tall and skinny. Unfortunately it doesn't translate to picking up girls well

Well...

This... person is skinny for sure.

Diversity... ugh.

It's a girl? It's looks more like a femboy to me.

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