This'll go nicely with my stress-induced bingefest

[mothwing]

Big women like sexy underwear, too? And there are ads for that underwear? Neat, I thought.
How did the network react? "Omg, it's a fat person in underwear, cover your eyes! Take it down!"

This is the ad in question:

Also, this post about going to the OB/GYN while fat made me incredibly angry. It shouldn't have, after all the other nice stuff I've heard about people's GYNs (sexual harassment, violation, humiliation, scare tactics into submitting to a procedure, dismissing concerns and pain as "this doesn't hurt, ever, so pull yourself together" etc., and that's just the people I know offline).

Yes, I get it. Fat people ought to blob along elsewhere and not subject themselves to the innocent eyes of other people (even though, as junkscience claims, this will make perfectly thin women worry about their body image so deep, deep down that even they themselves don't realise). Yeah. I'll go do some homework and let my lifesaving chocolate nuts prepare me for boobquake.

Comments

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Underwear models are usually not sexy, they're just kind of...there. Like modern art. Victoria's Secret commercials are many things, but I do not think sexy is one of them.
Like--I guess I felt like this commercial was trying to sell WOMEN underwear, and VS commercials are trying to sell MEN women's underwear.#

Yes, that's what I got from it, too, although I can't say I can put my finger on why that is, that is to say, why the VS commercials aren't sexy, even though I think they're intended to be sexy. Maybe it's an element of sensuality, and, as you guys point out, agency that's missing in the VS ads, as well as the fact that the body types that usually feature in those ads are so similar that they stop registering, in a way. She definitely does appear to be more focused than the women in VS ads I've seen who just basically loll around beds in their dessous, in poses not aimed at a female audience.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I think the agency part is huge, although it's kind of a hard thing to define. It's hard to find non-subjective markers.