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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
I'm not just hung up on that. The point is that you have no right to pass judgement on those people. You can't argue that it's ok to judge models BECAUSE they take pictures for the public, but judge the private photographs of women that you were never intended to see. You know what female celebrities without make-up or without production quality look like? Women. Regular women. So by passing judgement on them as "Not beautiful" because they don't have make-up or aren't photoshopped, you are insulting pretty much every woman on the planet. Great work.
On your second point:
As pointed out, there's the rub. This IS society. This IS public. You are not behind closed doors. You are not in the boy's club or with your buddies. You are in a public space where WOMEN read your comments. You wouldn't make fun of a picture of a handicapped person in front of another handicapped person (just a random example), so why in the WORLD would you make disparaging comments about a woman in front of other women? Doesn't that go against how society functions?
This isn't talking about the talent or work-quality of someone. This is talking about the way someone is born, or in general, the physical attributes of someone. By turning that into a product for which you are to judge (like a hockey game, or an album, or whatever) you are objectifying these women.
If you want to look at a picture and point out the problems with THE PICTURE, then go crazy. Hell, if you want to take that picture and point out the problems with the way the model is posing, or the outfit, go crazy, because that's part of "the job" just like commenting on the Flames jerseys or Shane O'Brien's puck skills. But to take a picture and point out the body issues of the woman? Sorry, THAT isn't how society works.
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But see, a model gets paid because of her looks. She's selling her looks as a product meant for consumption. Me as a consumer, I am fully within my rights to complain about my displeasure or exclaim my pleasure of the product I'm being presented. Because of her chosen field, she should also be aware that her looks will be scrutinized since that is the product which she chose to put out there for consumption.
Those comments aren't ever directed at women in general, but rather at the specific subject which is the model in the picture. So saying something like "Meh her ass is too big" should be looked at as poster A believes that model B's ass is too large. It doesn't mean that all men think that all women's asses are too large and therefore they all need to lose weight.