Women need to step up to the plate if they want to stop objectifcation
The super model industry features models that are 5-10 to 6-1 fee tall and have slender builds. This is a purposeful choice from a marketing point of view, and industry, because this is what most females perceive to be beautiful not men. The female customer dominates spending on female clothing and lingerie. It is extremely rare, by the numbers, that males are compelled to buy female clothing because they are not the target audience. If men were the target audience the super models would be 5-5, and curvier.
We as men can assist in stopping objectification, but women must be the driving force to change the fashion industry because they are the biggest spender. Women must vote with their wallets to create real change because talking down to males about how objectification is bad doesn't solve the core problem..it just punts it down the line.
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I can tell you with absolute certainty that this model wasn't chosen to sell stuff to men.
Say what you will about the SI bikini models, but they at least appear healthy.
exactly how my sister looked when she was on heroin back in the 1970s... 
Handbag.
Thanks lumberjack! 
First we are prudes and now it's all women's fault. You really are the limit.
A trip down memory lane was very enlightening yesterday
My friend - keep calm and buy a new handbag. 
Then post it at DU. And then I'll post a pic of my newest Bagghy handbag. Hilarity and laughter will ensue. You deserve it for the good fight you've fought here lately! 
And the same people who tout SI as the highest of high fashion advice sure did give you a lot of shit back in the day. 
Just saying . . . but it's OUR fault ya know? 
*merrily making mischief that I believe BainsBane will 'get'* 
2 of them from posters other than yourself.
Maybe you've heard of Dave Futrelle's site by now, btw? If not, he's supposed to be one of the best MRA debunkers there is out there. 
the dust.
This is the look that has been promoted by the fashion industry and the media for decades.
Look at the guys of Abercrombie and Fitch. Walking past their store you can see a huge photo generally of some incredibly skinny yet muscular, very young, photoshopped teen guy or guys. Same thing happens with women. The female models selected are also very young, slim and photoshopped to look like the perfect ideal of the men that run the fashion industry. The reason teen models are chosen, is because teens undergo a growth spurt during which the body growing upwards very quickly, and the body attempts to catch up to a normal weight but not quite as quickly (unless the teen eats mass quantities of food), and so it often looks skinny. They are also chosen because their face still retains a childlike quality it hasn't yet grown out of.
Media uses these picture-messages, and media surrounds us; it's ubiquitous, like oxygen, and we cannot escape it. It takes a gargantuan effort to not be subliminally swayed what the media dictates all around us, and by the rest of the population which has also swayed subliminally. Even if we did make the effort to resist, that effort would fail in light of the fact that we are even limited to buying products which are offered pursuant to the media's dictates. Here's an example of how you can't resist: would you wear knickers and a top hat to work? Of course not. You wish to fit in, and it might hamper your success in every sphere were you to ignore the dictates of the media, and therefore society. Same with everything else in society. We are slaves to the media, whether we like it or not.
Here's what Marshall McLuhan said that the media does to our brains:
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
At first, people were highly skeptical of this assertion. However, this was later shown to be the case in numerous studies which have been carried out since. What's odd is that we need studies to believe it, and don't even notice the effect of the media upon us all. The easiest way to understand this is this: if we lived in a cave for 10 years and then returned to society, we would return to a society living by what the media has been promoting - the styles, the fads, the manner of speaking, the habits, etc.
Sure, we select one or two topics and protest those, but in most everything else, we are victims of the media because we are social animals.
Men are subject to the media and society's dictates just as much as women are. For ex., recently I heard some young guy say that Marilyn Monroe was "fat," and other young guys agreed. Marilyn Monroe? Fat? Really? But the cadaver, x-ray look is "in" because it has been promoted since the 60s through marketing, and our eyes have already grown accustomed to the cadaver look.
Same with teen models. We can see photoshopped teen models of 14, 15, 16 and 17 modeling clothing for women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, and it amazes me to no end. Models (both male and female) are required to starve themselves if they are to maintain a modeling career. Yet this is the standard our eyes have seen for decades, and we all believe these things are achievable. It's truly insane. 
but insinuate that a female poster is mentally ill for describing the harassment she and others have experienced, ("I think you people are sick...Really, what sick world do you live in?" and telling her that her only purpose is to be mean when said female poster explains why she objects to the posting of the SI SI cover, not to mention saying that harassment is only a problem because the victims "allow it to happen"... that isn't hating women? Apparently, the poster to whom you're replying doesn't think so.
What, I should start eating and stop exercising so I can, at the very least, gain weight to fit your desirable parameters? Because you know that I cannot change my height, right?
I went through many years of taunting about my height. Now, at 47, I embrace it. because this is what most females perceive to be beautiful not men Says who? Guys love it....not that it matters to me (well, okay, I like some of the attention). I prefer men to enjoy my personality.
Just this morning, in a convenience store, a guy said "excuse me, basketball player, would you like to step ahead of me in line"? Really???? 20 years ago, it would have irked me. Today I just smiled.
Yeah, this OP pisses me off to no end. 
to buy clothing again.
And *sigh* the men of DU are not who I discuss fashion with.
As well - the "I'm not into self adornment" women at DU who look down on folks who would never buy a bag at Target (and the woman who wouldn't is sooooo me and she rocks !) - are not women who need to lecture me on where I should be looking for swimsuits.
And I'll stop buying $400 handbags and $1200 dollar Ralph Lauren black label dresses when the techie types at DU commit to never buying laptop, iphone, tablet, etc. etc. ever again in order to reduce slave labor in China. That's not gonna happen! 
Not me!
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