Meat Off the Bone
I am prepared to admit, loudly and without shame, that I am an unabashed fan of Perez Hilton and the gooey, bubble-gummy celebrity gossip he posts daily. I can’t help myself! I love it. (Even as I write this, I’m listening to a YouTube video he linked to of Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC.)
I was willing to look the other way when he bounded forth a year ago on a path to “get healthy” by losing 10 inches off his waistline. Whatever. I’m so done with current standards of “health,” and if his goal is to look good on the beach while shirtless, well, who am I to define what “good” looks like for him?
What I cannot overlook is advertisements that go beyond the pale of cruelty, and even horror. Take a look at this: A woman. Preparing to “Trim Those Thighs.” (Is that really the kind of woman they think needs to “trim” her thighs? Really?)
This is actually nauseating. We’ve all seen the parade of faceless fatties that the media loves to portray on TV, but I can’t remember ever seeing an advertisement so vicious in its visualization of weight loss. This reinforces every awful stereotype about a woman’s body as object - something to be used, molded, reshaped - carved - into whatever the viewer desires. There’s nothing funny about the play on words here. This ad is violent! The only time I want to see a fucking carving knife in an advertisement is when it is displayed next to an artfully chopped pile of vegetables and a jar of pasta sauce.
Butcher veggies, not women!
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Yeah, those kinds of ads are one of the reasons I stopped going to his site. That, and I began to get sick of the man himself. I love celebrity gossip, but when I began to not to be able to stand Perez, I figured it was time that he and I parted ways. xD
The ad’s on his site that really get to me are the ones with the really large models, and the caption is is something along the lines of…So beautiful, so fat, so sad.
SAD? Of course all fatties are sad self haters, I keep forgetting my role in society.
And did you see his plug for “how I did it?” I’m starting to get the desire to smack his smug face if I should ever meet him.
Touché!
Yes! I did see the ones with the large models with the “So pretty, so fat, so sad” taglines. Grrrrr…dammit! It’s not cool. It’s Just.Not.Cool!!
Perez is very full of himself, but I haven’t quite reached the point of abandoning him. I still need my daily doses of Pete “Doperty” and “Sluttyienna” Miller!
There’s an article I found on the front page of msn talking about the same type of ads on facebook, here is the link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26520257?GT1=43001
Thanks for nothin’, MSN! Hey, folks, the excellent snippet that Beth mentioned can now be found at the Washington Post.
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