Yeah, I’m not a photographer myself but I don’t think those are particularly well done photos either.
I am not a photographer, and I agree with you. Every shot seems to say “naked fat girl” and nothing else. They are no different than those poor taste novelty birthday cards you can find in any drug store.
I wasn’t speaking of the SD, but in general as far as not judging. I’m talking about the whole fat acceptance movement, and how people are taking it to extremes.
Holy shit. It’s one thing to post something regarding the aesthetics of the women/photos (since that’s what the OP opened the dialogue with) or concern-trolling about their health, but this? For fuck’s sake, they’re still human beings and the only thing you know about any of them is how they look naked.
Gotta agree.
I don’t think these photos challenge anything. To me, they just scream, “Lookit the profound statement I am making! Lookit!” But maybe I’m too jaded to be impressed by anything anymore.
This is probably an ignorant statement, but to me, that first photo, just looks sore.
She has those large folds of unsupported flesh hanging down in chunks from her knees - doesn’t that physically hurt?
I am also not a photographer, but ISTM that these pictures don’t work as art either.
One can’t just publish pictures and say “this challenges your standard of beauty”. The pictures themselves would actually have to make the observer see beauty where before he would not. And that would challenge and expand the standard of beauty. I don’t know if that is possible with models who weigh 600 pounds, but these pictures don’t do it.
The pictures of the plus-size model, to me, do more to challenge standards of beauty than the “artistic” photos of the OP. If I had a whit of artistic talent - I don’t - I might juxtapose some pictures of her against some anorexic stickpin runway model in exactly the same poses and challenge the standard of beauty that says a women can’t be beautiful if she isn’t about to collapse from starvation.
Regards,
Shodan
In the slideshow, #7 made me think of Jar Jar Binks.
Oh, dear Rorschach, wherein doth the beauty lie
For us to blindly George Lucas decry?
Now if they had say, a rose stem clutched in their teeth and large steins of beer in their hands, then we’d be talking…
I’m sorry, my standards haven’t been challenged by these photos.
They’ve been reaffirmed.
May I be the first to say, I’ll be in my bunk.
On the run between meetings (and I picked THIS thread to post in…says something about me and where my thinking is ;)), but I was reading this article and thought it was relevant to the thread.
Not just the first, but the only…
BTW, if you’re interested enough to click on this thread, you might want to check out Leonard Nimoy’s Full Body Project. It’s (much more skilled, IMHO) artistic shots of (much less huge) fat women. Representative shot, which I rather like: [spoiler]http://www.akashicreading.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Full-Body-Project.jpg[/spoiler]
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The OP link just makes me wince, not in disgust so much as empathy. I know how uncomfortable it can be to be 5’5" and 240lbs, from joint issues to my fat just freaking getting in the way of lying or sitting comfortably. I cannot imagine having a body like those pictured without constant pain. The thought drowns out any consideration of aesthetics or health for me!
You know, while it may often seem otherwise, there is actually no law that states people must include this empty platitude whenever linking to an “artistic” picture of a fat woman on the internet.
Well there isn’t a challenges-our-standards-of-beauty smiley.
Well, since the OP hasn’t been back to explain himself, maybe you can fill us in. What, exactly, do you find beautiful? The miles and miles of flesh? The hunt for the good spots? The climb to the top? The mystery of all the hidden parts? The vulnerability of a woman so encumbered?
The scariest thing is how does one get that fat in the first place. I mean, that’s seriously hardcore.
Troppus, I think he was kidding.
That’s really what I was wondering too. I’m just on the cusp of being morbidly obese, and carrying around the weight I do interferes with my everyday life. Some of those women have very eccentric adipose deposits. How do you find clothes that aren’t just large enough to fit, but are cut to allow huge hips and thighs and accommodate a much smaller waist? That first picture, how on earth does that woman deal with all those folds and hanging flaps?
I wish that instead of talking about “standards of beauty” we would talk about “standards of dignity”. Passing off these women as being idols of sexuality is a lie, but rejecting that doesn’t mean that they’re not worthy of compassion, kindness, and empathy.
Absolutely. But I wonder if any/all of these women have manipulated feeders to enable them. I can’t imagine any of them working a full time job to support that diet, or actually physically fetching groceries themselves. Or worse, are feeders coddling them with reassurance while exploiting their addictions for their personal (fetish) gain? This seems circus sideshow wrong, but we don’t know anything about these women or what led them to this state. I’m sorry for them and their needlessly limited existences and shortened lives.