A new norm?

[just a punk]

Every time YouTube runs a commercial, it's bound to show some disgusting-looking obese woman. Not just chubby, but really fat. She smiles and advertises clothes or something else, and we are presented with this as the norm. Like, look, we are just like you, there are a lot of us and here we are on your screen. We are what we are and we are not ashamed of it. That's normal.

No, it's not normal! You're not who you're supposed to be. You're sick. You're obese, and that's a disease you shouldn't be proud of. It needs to be treated. Change your lifestyle. Take care of your diet. Stop eating horse shit from McDonald's and get some fitness. Obesity, like any disease, can be treated. If you don't treat it, you will die soon. You will have problems with your blood pressure, pancreas, heart, etc. You are going to fucking die very soon. Even if you lose weight right now, you will still live less than you would never brought yourself to this condition. But still, if you don't lose weight, you'll die even sooner.

Showing us fat people in commercials is just as criminal as showing smokers, alcoholics and heroin addicts with the implication, "This is who I am, yes I do drugs, I drink and smoke. But I'm just like you. Look at me!" That's not fucking normal. These people need to be treated, they can't be shown to society as the norm, because it's not the norm, it's pathology.

What are they trying to accomplish with all this advertising? What are they accomplishing by adding obese people to Hollywood movies? Why are they trying to show us a very dangerous disease as the norm? Fuckin' idiots...

[OneHungLo]

Yes, the new norm is to celebrate degeneracy or anything that deviates from the norm.

[charliechiuchiu]

You've brought up a real good point. I think the major media platforms are overly concerned about being 'politically correct' in the hope that they don't unconsciously offend certain social groups. But I guess there's too much press from the public, especially some unfriendly internet trolls trying to stir shit up.

Though no matter how carefully you advertise your products and how clearly you state the use cases, you seem to always end up making some people feel 'offensive'...

[CurrentlySober]

I prefer the old Norm...

Cheers!

[charliechiuchiu]

Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

I prefer the old Norm...

Cheers!

Damn, man! Throwback Cheersday!!!

[Lief Thorson]

It's the same with the LBGTQ bullshit.

"I'm just like you! Look at me!"

I am absolutely not like you and do not like looking at you either.

It's fucking vile.

[notinmybackyard]

This is the porn industry. My advice is to shut up and film/promote the morbidly obese. Make enough money and you'll be able to fuck all the skinny broads you want.

[blackmonsters]

Fat people need clothes too, so those ads for clothes make a lot of sense.
When I go shopping, I think most people I see are fat.
So they are missing half the demographic by showing only thin people.

[King Mark]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Fat people need clothes too

Exactly. Common sense, but rightards gotta have something to complain about or they'll have no purpose in life.

[ruff]

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Every time YouTube runs a commercial, it's bound to show some disgusting-looking obese woman. Not just chubby, but really fat.

When was the last time you were in America? It's fat city. 250-pounders stuffed into yoga pants. We have sugar in every single thing we eat and drink. Life expectancy is getting lower here. This inclusion business is fine elsewhere; showing obese people on TV is sending the wrong message.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by ruff

showing obese people on TV is sending the wrong message.

So why did so many people get fat when TV only showed thin people?
Was that the wrong message?

[TheLegacy]

Advertisers spend to much on looks whether to fat or to thin instead of the quality of a person and their life. Imagine advertising tolerance and positive morals?

[King Mark]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

Imagine advertising tolerance and positive morals?

That would be tOo wOke, rightards would complain.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

Imagine advertising tolerance and positive morals?

People want to buy shit and not be preached to.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Every time YouTube runs a commercial, it's bound to show some disgusting-looking obese woman. Not just chubby, but really fat. She smiles and advertises clothes or something else, and

Focusing advertising efforts on the plus-sized market in the United States and Canada makes perfect sense. While some argue that featuring plus-sized models normalizes unhealthy obesity, it's important to remember that clothing companies aren't obligated to teach fitness and health. Their main goal is to sell to various markets.

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

...and we are presented with this as the norm

Well actually, it IS the norm, or at at least close to it. According to Healthline, it is estimated that over 42% of adults in America have obesity.

Originally Posted by Lief Thorson

It's the same with the LBGTQ bullshit.

"I'm just like you! Look at me!"

I am absolutely not like you and do not like looking at you either.

It's fucking vile.

You're mostly right, but its not bullshit. Accoring to Gallup, 7.1% of Americans identify in some range of LGBTQ, with 21% of Gen-Z's identifying as the same, and, the number is rising. So again, another market niche.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

it's important to remember that clothing companies aren't obligated to teach fitness and health. Their main goal is to sell to various markets.

Exactly.

The moral judgement of clothing ads coming from people who make or watch videos of females being slapped, spit and pissed on.

Irony.

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by ruff

When was the last time you were in America? It's fat city. 250-pounders stuffed into yoga pants. We have sugar in every single thing we eat and drink. Life expectancy is getting lower here. This inclusion business is fine elsewhere; showing obese people on TV is sending the wrong message.

The last time I was in the US was over ten years ago. I didn't see too many fat people there. Maybe I was in those states where obesity is not a big problem. I was mostly in the south and I suspect obesity is a Midwestern problem. But I won't state that as fact.

In any case, obesity is a disease and should not be encouraged and passed off as the norm. Even if people are very poor, they can still afford to eat healthy. At the very least, stop eating sugar and reduce your diet to moderate. If the majority of the country's population is sick, there is no need to encourage it. We need to point out the problem to them and encourage them to take charge of their health. Obesity is not a Down's disease; it is treatable. And it doesn't require going to the doctor, having surgeries, or buying expensive medications etc.

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark

Well actually, it IS the norm, or at at least close to it. According to Healthline, it is estimated that over 42% of adults in America have obesity.

That's not a norm if 42% of population is sick. PERIOD.

The same applies to homosexuality, BTW. It's a normal sexual deviation. Any society has about 4% of homosexuals according to the World's statistic. However you should understand a serious difference between a "normal sexual deviation %" and a norm. Other similar sexual deviations like pedophilia, gerantophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, coprophilia etc are also have a standard normal %. Not in the USA or North Pole. This % is about the same for any place on Earth. But that's not a reason to make them look as a norm and push it like "look, I'm a necrophile! I'm just like you! Join our necrophiliac pride!"

[JesseQuinn]

I've never been able to wear women's jeans/shorts

even the so called 'slim fit' ones have these tiny waists and balloon hips so to get my size it looks like I'm wearing pantaloons

only pair of women's bottoms that ever fit proper was this pair of wicked Stella McCartney jeans a co-worker of my ex bought me for my bday back when we were living in Toronto. cost a fucking fortune, I'm sure, but he was super-rich so prob not a big deal to him

loved those shorts (turned them into cutoffs when I moved south), wore them to the ground and only retired them when the material between rips held together by safety pins started getting rips

for jeans/shorts I shop in the boys section, in any country, on the very rare occasion I buy clothes (almost as boring as doing the laundry)

bodies come in diff shapes and sizes. Americans tend to be rather uh, zaftig and rotund

makes biz sense to market to them

is it healthy? nope (lights cig as I type)

where I live everyone is always trying to feed me lol. so esp if you're female you really can't win either way

Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

Norm!!

[imob-nl]

Originally Posted by OneHungLo

Yes, the new norm is to celebrate degeneracy or anything that deviates from the norm.

...so true

[SevY]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

Advertisers spend to much on looks whether to fat or to thin instead of the quality of a person and their life. Imagine advertising tolerance and positive morals?

I'm gonna give you a little example of how this tolerance to woke culture will literally kill the world.

My day job as senior developer is in an e-commerce office. It's not a bad work and it pays good. The only bad side of it is represented by my colleagues. Unfortunately all of my co-workers are obese women: an accountant, 2 phone/chat customer support and a social media manager.

So far so good up to here, I have nothing against fat people. But it turns into a problem when it comes to turn on/off the air conditioning. As long as some days can be hot, it happens that they want to have air conditioning at 15 °C (about 59 °F in Fahrenheit) all day long, no matter if it's hot or cold outside, no matter if it's sunny or it's rainy.

I've always been very enduring with that but it happened two weeks ago that I had to be in the office even if I was on a severe flu. I kindly asked for turning off the air conditioning or at least raising the temperature but there was neither sympathy nor compassion for a sick man. Their only justification was: "we feel warm and we are in 4 versus just one".

Actually being a walrus in the desert is not supposed to feel good, but their double fat-coat comes from their eating choices, not from something depending on me. Right?

Assuming that if they are obese it's their problem not mine, and giving their inborn frustration as a matter of fact, my question is:

why laws prohibit behavior (like bullying) that targets minority groups, if that "minority" is actually turning into the whole majority?