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Oh do be quiet, you massive hypocrite.
I do read this forum a lot of the time. You objectify women as much as anyone else in here does, at least MaliA doesn't hide it behind a thin veil of "I'm appalled at the treatment of these poor women" pretence.
With the greatest of respect, flis, get tae fuck.
There is a huge world of difference between "I quite fancy X" ( a natural human reaction to a memebr of the opposite sex that one finds attractive) on
a web forum and a
TV program based around nothing but someone's looks. In fact so much of a difference that the one isn't visible from the other.
Also, if you want to have a go at people on here being hypocritcal, you could do worse than point fingers at e.g. Craster, who will slag off women in the public eye for being utter mingers because of some minor flaw. And the one massively belting on about how this show is mean to individuals was Craster, btw.
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Not every girl who takes her clothes off or wants to be a model or works in porn has issues or is being used or objectified against her will or has problems with her self esteem and confidence.
I wasn't aware I said anything remotely related to that.
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Even if some of them do have personal issues relating to how they look and want some kind of validation, so fucking what? They're getting it, aren't they? They've been chosen from thousands of applicants, they're part way there. They get to build a portfolio and just because they're not what that particular agency is looking for, doesn't mean they won't get work elsewhere.
After they've been publicly humiliated, of course.
Anyway, the point was, if you'd been engaging the teensy bit of your brain that isn't concentrating on shoes on the main point I was making, that the problem is not the effect on the individual participants (as bad as that may be), but the contribution that this sort of shallow, one dimensional show has on society as a whole. I have teenage nieces, and I'm entirely aware of how the portayal of women on television and in advertising and so on has on how they view themselves.