Yesterday I received another one of those email ads trying to get me to spend more money. I was about to junk it, when something caught my eye, to wit, this:
Great Aphrodite’s bleeding eyeballs, when did models turn away from being beautiful and into heffalumps like the above?
Yeah I know, “body positivity” and all that Womynz Issues stuff, but seriously?
Here’s something for the Fashion Industry to ponder. Somewhere between this:
… and this: 
…is a happy medium — basically, a women not emaciated or boyish, and not a fucking blimp either, but a woman who looks more like a happy medium, i.e. not like this:
…but more like this: 
The latter girl, by the way, is not a model, but just a random pic of an ordinary person taken from a newspaper — with an acceptably-pretty face, and a decent-but-not-perfect body. That, I would suggest, is more of a happy medium than what we’re having shoved in our faces today.
Fuck their “body positivity” and all that jive. If I’m going to be persuaded to buy something, I just want to see it presented in an agreeable form.
And this from a man who actually prefers zaftig women over skinnies. But I have my limits, and modern advertising has stepped well over them. Here’s the latest such offering:
I love Miriam Margolyes beyond words… but as a model? No.
If I want to see ugly women, I’ll go to WalMart.
