Target under fire for swimsuit model photo that removes woman's crotch

[NewYorkExpress]

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As if things couldn't go worse for Target... This is a serious issue because of the number of Anorexic men and Women in this country (among others) who may be "inspired" by this.

[Reginald]

Inspired to remove their genitalia?

[Ban my account ffs!]

To be honest that looks gross and unnatural.  Not to mention she's already a stick.

[ag]

This is, most definitely, not appropriate for this model. Move it elsewhere, please.

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As if things couldn't go worse for Target... This is a serious issue because of the number of Anorexic men and Women in this country (among others) who may be "inspired" by this.

If you are finding "inspiration" in a Target catalog you need to be institutionalized.  We cannot run this country based on "what will the mentally ill think."  The one place where we should be taking the thoughts of the mentally ill into account, gun control, we completely ignore them.  Why start caring with this "issue"?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

As if things couldn't go worse for Target... This is a serious issue because of the number of Anorexic men and Women in this country (among others) who may be "inspired" by this.

If you are finding "inspiration" in a Target catalog you need to be institutionalized.  We cannot run this country based on "what will the mentally ill think."  The one place where we should be taking the thoughts of the mentally ill into account, gun control, we completely ignore them.  Why start caring with this "issue"?

Because if we're defining deriving beauty standards from media images as mental illness now, then most of the population is mentally ill.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There was actually a study done once. One group was shown images of very thin underwear models for 60 seconds, the other group was shown "plus size" underwear models for the same time period. After this was done each was shown a series of two images of two fully clothed women and asked to pick the one the found more attractive. It was found that the first group ended up with an ideal BMI that was quite underweight, while the second group's ideal BMI was still underweight but just on the edge of standard. And that's after just 60 seconds of exposure.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

As if things couldn't go worse for Target... This is a serious issue because of the number of Anorexic men and Women in this country (among others) who may be "inspired" by this.

If you are finding "inspiration" in a Target catalog you need to be institutionalized.  We cannot run this country based on "what will the mentally ill think."  The one place where we should be taking the thoughts of the mentally ill into account, gun control, we completely ignore them.  Why start caring with this "issue"?

Because if we're defining deriving beauty standards from media images as mental illness now, then most of the population is mentally ill.

Beauty standards vary with the individual. I'm attracted to very thin women, like the one in the ad, while some men like women with curves. I don't see why most of the population would envy this model and feel different from others, when a vast majority of the country doesn’t look like that at all.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Why in the name of Christ is this on the 'Economics' board?

Because we're talking about curves.

[angus]

Why in the name of Christ is this on the 'Economics' board?

Because we're talking about curves.

actually, it's all right angles down there.  Badly done.