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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
We do not buy actresses or models. We do not even buy anything they specifically are selling. We may buy movies, or magazines, but any actual "product" being sold by these people is being consumed by those who produce those movies and magazines. That "product" is not being sold to the general public.
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That is purely a matter of definition, and I think most professionals in marketing would disagree with you. To me your logic sounds like the actual product is the movie ticket, not the movie. I think it's perfectly valid to say that the actor is the product that someone is buying. The whole shebang of "going to the movies" is only the extremely complicated system through which that persons money is transferred.
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...to say a lonely boy on the Internet has the right to publicly critique the physical appearance of a model because he feels he is the consumer and she is the product is not only wrong and shows a complete lack of understanding, but crass and repulsive.
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I'm sorry if you think it's crass and repulsive, but I think we'll have to just agree to disagree. For the record I think everything about that system is mostly sick and harmful to both genders in general.
In any case, this is kind of a silly argument to have, since what a couple of (more or less) feminists think about this stuff isn't going to change the world in any way.