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Originally Posted by _Q_
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.
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Ok, so out of curiosity, your right to judge the personal photographs of women exists where in this example?
EDIT: And as a long aside, since you're the consumer, what is it you've purchased? What is it do you believe has been marketed to you? You are not buying the body of the woman, or even the picture of the woman, but in this consumer scenario you are purchasing a product, women are NOT that product.
Generally, beautiful women are used to promote a product (the debate over how that promotes the objectification of women is another), they are not the product. When a model poses for a photo-shoot, her beauty is being used to promote the sales of a magazine, the work of a photographer, a brand in general. The "consumers" of her as a "product" are the companies that hire her, not you, not perverts behind a keyboard, but the companies that actually PAY her.
YOU are often not the "consumer" of a model's work, nor are they the "product" which you are purchasing.
Go ahead, name one model you purchased, even one image you purchased from the YLYL thread, and then tell me you're the consumer and you have a right to judge the "product."
I feel filthy even trying to logically address that misogynistic line of thinking.