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    edited February 22 in Chit-Chat
    You should check this out, it's crazy how much has changed.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/art-history-photoshopped_n_5367171.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular Interesting take on art's famous nudes and were photoshop to fit today's image of beauty.

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      wow! That's so crazy - but it's so true - the perception today is outrageous!
    • Posts: 2,227 Member
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      Think thats nuts. This is an actual photo shoot from start to finish then goes into photoshop to alter the model.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j5QzF3kqE
    • Posts: 151 Member
      what i don't understand is why thin people get offended by things like this. they say things like "stop skinny shaming. we are naturally this way, etc.". well good for you, but no one can eat indiscriminately without gaining weight without counting their portions and calories at some point. if they are "naturally" thin its because they "naturally" ate less their whole lives which gave them the body they have now. the fact of the matter is that most people struggle with their weight in one way or another because the human being is trying to survive and hold on to weight. its the way we're built.
    • Posts: 4,585 Member
      what i don't understand is why thin people get offended by things like this. they say things like "stop skinny shaming. we are naturally this way, etc.". well good for you, but no one can eat indiscriminately without gaining weight without counting their portions and calories at some point. if they are "naturally" thin its because they "naturally" ate less their whole lives which gave them the body they have now. the fact of the matter is that most people struggle with their weight in one way or another because the human being is trying to survive and hold on to weight. its the way we're built.

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      I will just leave this here. Quietly.

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    • Posts: 3,779 Member
      with my eyes
    • Posts: 117 Member
      Not endorsing photo alteration or unhealthily skinny models in any way, but...

      In the renaissance, fat was beautiful because it was a sign of wealth. The average woman during that period would have been very thin, simply from a lack of food. Being overweight was a status symbol that said you had so much money you could afford to be fat. It's simply not apples to apples to compare beauty standards from other time periods to today. It has gone from the aristocracy being overweight and the common man being tragically thin to the reverse.
    • Posts: 3,779 Member
      Think thats nuts. This is an actual photo shoot from start to finish then goes into photoshop to alter the model.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j5QzF3kqE

      try this one.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnvoz91k8hc
    • Posts: 1,099 Member
      Not endorsing photo alteration or unhealthily skinny models in any way, but...

      In the renaissance, fat was beautiful because it was a sign of wealth. The average woman during that period would have been very thin, simply from a lack of food. Being overweight was a status symbol that said you had so much money you could afford to be fat. It's simply not apples to apples to compare beauty standards from other time periods to today. It has gone from the aristocracy being overweight and the common man being tragically thin to the reverse.

      This. I thought of that too with those painting how what was considered attractive back then had a lot to do with the why it was found attractive. Money and power being the main things.
    • Posts: 1,899 Member
      Pierre-Auguste Renoir loved depicting women as very curvy/full. It was a sign of health, wealth and childbearing competency.
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?
    • Posts: 168 Member
      Blocked at work. Coming back to this later.
    • Posts: 5,585 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      all them old men getting rich off our hatred of our bodies ugh

      I agree
    • Posts: 4,024 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      i think your missing the point.... time travel is needed desperately. duh
    • Posts: 73 Member
      Insightful but I have always heard that the curvier women of the depicted age was considered beautiful due to circumstances such as ranking, power, wealth, etc.
    • Posts: 1,791 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      HIGH FIVE!!!
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      coming back to see later. blocked at work
    • Posts: 575 Member
      There are so many different shapes and sizes. Can't we just let people be happy how they are?
    • Posts: 1,428 Member
      There are so many different shapes and sizes. Can't we just let people be happy how they are?

      :heart:
    • Posts: 1,323 Member
      Not endorsing photo alteration or unhealthily skinny models in any way, but...

      In the renaissance, fat was beautiful because it was a sign of wealth. The average woman during that period would have been very thin, simply from a lack of food. Being overweight was a status symbol that said you had so much money you could afford to be fat. It's simply not apples to apples to compare beauty standards from other time periods to today. It has gone from the aristocracy being overweight and the common man being tragically thin to the reverse.


      ...AND let's not forget being "tanned": the fat aristocracy also wanted lily-white skin, which was a sure sign of not slaving away in the cropfields all day. ...until MUCH later, when folks started to "vacation" at the French Riviera. THEN sun-kissed skin began its assocation with wealth.
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      Amen
    • Posts: 260 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      :heart: :smooched: :drinker: :flowerforyou:

      Exactly this
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      ...AND let's not forget being "tanned": the fat aristocracy also wanted lily-white skin, which was a sure sign of not slaving away in the cropfields all day. ...until MUCH later, when folks started to "vacation" at the French Riviera. THEN sun-kissed skin began its assocation with wealth.
      And what culture you are in as well. In other parts of the world, there are people looking to lighten their skin or fatten themselves up for beauty.
    • Posts: 117 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      That's... pretty accurate. The hardest to attain look has typically been the most desired.

      I think (hope) that we are trending towards a society that values what is healthy above all else. Besides, we have so many other ways to be what we perceive individually as beautiful today than simple body shape. We aren't constrained to one hairstyle/clothing style/etc./etc. like we once were. (Unless you live in North Korea)
    • Posts: 300 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?

      We comprise society. When people stop buying cosmo or shape with fit people on the covers... that's "society's" (aka, our) way of saying that's what we prefer.

      I agree with your post completely though.
    • Posts: 11,788 Member
      That may be the way we perceive beauty today, but that is not the way it is. As a whole America is getting fatter.

      If you don't believe me, ask Charles Barkley.
    • Posts: 900 Member
      Basically, what's happening is what's always happened, right? Society says what's rare is beautiful and coveted. So when it was easy to be thin, you should want to be heavy, and when it's easy to be heavy, you should want to to be thin. So...how about we all just decide for ourselves what we want our bodies to look like, and tell society to suck it?


      YEAH! Where is this "society" guy so I can punch him in the face!

      Oh...wait.
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      We comprise society. When people stop buying cosmo or shape with fit people on the covers... that's "society's" (aka, our) way of saying that's what we prefer.

      I agree with your post completely though.

      At least some one gets it.
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