Society Gone Mad!!!

[Harold14370]

Even if it is not their intention to have that affect on them, it's common knowledge that they do. In my opinion, it's really selfish to blatantly overlook the greater good for the sake of profit.

Common knowledge is often incorrect. While I have heard that asserted frequently about the fashion industry, I do not find it particularly credible.

If the fashion industry finds it more profitable to show their clothes being worn by thin models, then that is probably because thin models are already considered by the general public or at least their target customers to be more attractive. I doubt very much that some clothing ads are going to change things significantly.

 

[NedoCTB]

I'm still not confident even after losing all the weight. Trust me, if you feel like shit now losing weight is not going to help your problems. The only thing losing the weight did is actually make me want to go out and enjoy my life instead of constantly thinking about food.

I just read a post of yours in another thread (People Treating You Different?) in which you say that you actually enjoy going out now - now that you've lost weight. And, in that very same post, you said that girls talk to you a lot more and are more into you now that you have lost weight. From what you said in that post, it seems as if you are more comfortable with going out, now that you have lost weight and receive a lot of compliments.

If one were to take a realistic and honest look at what you were saying in that post, they would come to the logical conclusion that you enjoy going out now because you have more confidence in yourself. Yet, now you say that if someone gets confidence from their weight, that it's a joke?

I'm confused.

 

[ChefChiTown]

I'm still not confident even after losing all the weight. Trust me, if you feel like shit now losing weight is not going to help your problems. The only thing losing the weight did is actually make me want to go out and enjoy my life instead of constantly thinking about food.

...because you were afraid of what you would experience (ridicule, slander, insults, unfair treatment, etc) when you were heavy, but now that you're not heavy anymore, you're confident that you won't experience such negativity. So, you actually WANT to go out now - because you feel better about yourself - because you're not afraid of getting treated like you're not a human being - because you're confident with the body you have now and you aren't scared of people looking at you and judging you in an unfair manner.

Personally, I think it's kind of silly that anybody would claim that when a fat, overweight and unhealthy person loses weight that they won't get a boost of confidence. To me, the two go hand in hand.

 

[ChefChiTown]

Common knowledge is often incorrect. While I have heard that asserted frequently about the fashion industry, I do not find it particularly credible.

If the fashion industry finds it more profitable to show their clothes being worn by thin models, then that is probably because thin models are already considered by the general public or at least their target customers to be more attractive. I doubt very much that some clothing ads are going to change things significantly.

So Camel made Joe Camel smoke cigarettes because kids already thought that smoking was cool? GoDaddy puts good looking, half-dressed women in their ads because men already believe that owning a web domain will make them more attractive to women? McDonald's uses the slogan "I'm Lovin' It" and blatantly caters to the urban community (AKA - targets black people) because they already had dominant numbers of customers in the black community? Etc.

They weren't trying to influence a certain market in society in order to gain new customers? They were just marketing to the customers they already had? They catered to the way that people already felt?

I take it you're not a marketing executive. Because, their job is influence society - to mold their minds, in a sense - in order to make people buy their product. They don't focus their efforts on the share of the market they already have; their target audience is mainly the people who make up the share of the market they don't have yet. They want NEW customers - new customers means more customers - more customers means more money.

People are sheep. Without proper direction, sheep will go where they please. Marketing executives and advertising giants are paid millions upon millions of dollars to herd those sheep - to tell people what to buy, where to buy, how to look, what to wear, what to eat, what to listen to, what to watch, etc. The sheep don't tell the herder where to go - it's the other way around.