hollywood double standards...
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Shallow hal too0
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I see this discrepancy. There's only one thing for it, we have to normalise the site of overweight women in bikinis. I hereby vow that, regardless of my size, if it is unbearbly hot, and the sun is not shining down in all it's skin cancer giving intensity, I will strip to my bikini (or bra)!0
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Please take a look at the majority of action movies and romantic comedies. I don't see any pudgy or fat guys in many of these movies. It gets tiring about hearing how women are the only ones who have unrealistic expectations put on them by tv and movies.0
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Oh I missed the beach comment too. I've never heard anyone say "ohmigosh the nerve" because an overweight girl was wearing a bikini to the beach.0
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Please take a look at the majority of action movies and romantic comedies. I don't see any pudgy or fat guys in many of these movies. It gets tiring about hearing how women are the only ones who have unrealistic expectations put on them by tv and movies.
This is another valid point. I'm re-watching Mad Men right now, and I literally have the biggest crush on Jon Hamm ever. He is sooooo sexy. But he's an unrealistic ideal and we can't expect the average man to live up to him.0 -
I just dont care0
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Even Disney has done it!
Just an FYI Disney Did not make Shrek!!! This girl is a Disney BUFF!!!0 -
It really is a double standard. It's something I have thought about on occasion. It bothers me a lot.0
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Oh I missed the beach comment too. I've never heard anyone say "ohmigosh the nerve" because an overweight girl was wearing a bikini to the beach.
Try a SoCal water park and listen to the onlookers when a bigger girl comes down the slides.0 -
it's not really a double standard when you realize that most things are written and directed by overweight men for other men :laugh:
another thing ive noticed is that in many movies and tv shows involving teens (i just watched the remake of fright night last night) it's usually the girl (who also way hotter than the boy) who's all about seducing the boy. :laugh: so these guys are not only rewriting their present, they are also rewriting their past :laugh:0 -
awkward :P0
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It gives bigger guys hope! lol
and speaking of double-standards....why are men allowed to walk around in public topless and not women????0 -
I think that is true in real life too.
A woman's value is often placed on her: appearance, youth, sexual ability, "feminine" persona
A man's value is often placed on his: wallet, personality, coolness0 -
it's not really a double standard when you realize that most things are written and directed by overweight men for other men :laugh:
another thing ive noticed is that in many movies and tv shows involving teens (i just watched the remake of fright night last night) it's usually the girl (who also way hotter than the boy) who's all about seducing the boy. :laugh: so these guys are not only rewriting their present, they are also rewriting their past :laugh:
*Generalize overweight women*:
*Generalize overweight men*:
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And Beauty and the Beast....it's ridiculous.
LOL THIS.0 -
No one can ever think of another hefty girl with hot guy example, though. I asked around.
Last Holiday
Circle of Friends
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Bridget Jones
Titanic (Kate Winslet was 165lbs and had a BMI in the overweight category)0 -
Titanic (Kate Winslet was 165lbs and had a BMI in the overweight category)
She was gorgeous, I would have never put her in that line up lol it was a period piece also, women would be considered underweight back then.0 -
She was, and still is, a stunning woman. "Titanic" was released in 1997. I remember how the magazines went on and on about Kate's weight and celebrating a woman who wasn't a size 2 getting the leading role opposite a really hot guy. So yeah, gorgeous or not, period or not, she was still overweight and still belongs in my list.0
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Oh I missed the beach comment too. I've never heard anyone say "ohmigosh the nerve" because an overweight girl was wearing a bikini to the beach.
Really? I have, many times0 -
Oh I missed the beach comment too. I've never heard anyone say "ohmigosh the nerve" because an overweight girl was wearing a bikini to the beach.
Really? I have, many times
true dat! and what's weird is - i hear it more from women than i do from men. big meanie heads!0
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