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(36,693 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Scandulous!
longship
(40,416 posts)Here's the recipe:
Brazen Hussy
Take one every hour and call me in the late morning.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And you're right, one must truly note what she is...brazen is right!
Her ankles are bare!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Satan is at work here!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Nowadays, the young men, too, are held to a higher standard. Oogling the opposite sex is becoming an equal-opprotunity endeavor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19977415
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2126093/Womens-idea-perfect-man-A-6ft--48k-year--beer-drinking-meat-eater-Audi.html
It is worrying to them, too, apparently: http://www.msoe.edu/life_at_msoe/current_student_resources/student_resources/counseling_services/newsletters_for_mental_health/body_image_dissatisfaction.shtml
Hypotheses regarding contemporary mens body image distress have been presented by researchers in the field of psychology. It appears that the media plays a significant role in this by presenting the public with unrealistic images of the ideal male body. Consider the following:
GI Joe is to boys what Barbie is to girls (Pope, Olivardia, Gruber, & Borowiecki, 1999). Over the past 20 years, these G.I. Joe toys have grown more muscular and currently have sharper muscle definition. The GI Joe Extreme action figure, if extrapolated to a height of 510, would have larger biceps than any bodybuilder in history.
A Playgirl centerfold model of 1976 would need to shed 12 lbs of fat and gain 27 lbs of muscle to be a centerfold of today (Leit, Pope, & Gray, 2001).
In addition, the male body is increasingly being objectified and sexualized in popular print ads. For example, advertisements promoting weight lifting, exercise products, and underwear present the model as dehumanized (the gaze of male model is not at viewer) and the body is objectified (bodies are shown in parts, such as from the shoulders down). Additionally, the naked male body is increasingly portrayed in magazines targeted towards women and gay men.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)in the same box.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
redqueen
(115,101 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)No, that is not her, but she was 22 then, and had actually just finished college. She was about that size in the 20's, though had shrunk a bit by the time I remember her.
JI7
(89,239 posts)mshasta
(2,108 posts)7 in. long and 3in. wide.....
just saying
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)She's not in the kitchen.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)happy valentines day.
women
back in your place.
nothing personal, but seem to be a lot of this today.