This blog entry will most likely get the nobody-ever-reads-this award. And I didn't even plan to write it.
Since it is very loosely connected to the other entry posted this morning, I'll ping you again, @Nikokaro (you probably wouldn't notice otherwise because the blog section is more dead than alive and tends to get ignored)
First of all: I'm really bad at understanding most of the pictures in the funny pictures and memes threads (and most of the time I stay quiet for that reason). Sometimes curiosity gets the better of me, forcing me to ask something or just comment – and this is the case here.
Rather than replying into the threads every now and then, I'll this time put the reply into my blog to not come across as fun killer/killjoy¹ once again.
Now we have this post, picture only ,no own text comment alongside.
I hope I have grasped the meaning of this one:
Women feel devastated, defeated and desperate (alliteration not on purpose) seeing a picture of cartoonish women with exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics (also known as "big tits") combined with an overly well(?)-proportioned body.
Men on the other side, will see a picture of very muscular cartoonish men as an encouragement to improve their own body.
And this – questionable – message is transported with an example picture where the cartoonish women are so much exaggerated, that they would be seriously ill if they were real, especially the left one with the tiny waist (also thinking of early Lara Croft pictures – the artwork and complex rendering, not the in-game representation, that is, as all early 3D games, for incomprehensible reasons inseparable connected with stupid jokes from the IQ-below-room-temperature "has not aged well"-fad).
The cartoonish men are also exaggerated to a little lesser extent. I want to throw into the considerations, that any individual has some influence on their own degree of fitness, while influencing the size of the female breasts is fairly limited with natural means not affecting the rest of the body simultaneously. The comparison is misleading because of this.
Without the tears in the eyes and without any desperation I can fully agree with the pink-haired girl: The over-sexualized representation indeed brings across a wrong picture of real female bodies.
To put it in modern hieroglyphs, also known as emojis, my reaction on the stupid caricature of females is "" and not ""
The misleading comparison is at least
Being ugly myself beyond any description ( ), my general attitude towards comparing oneself to pretty(?) cartoon pictures can also best described by a modern hieroglyph:
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¹ Now that English phrases dict.leo.org suggested sound really aggressive. Why does it have to contain "kill" each time? Even in figurative sense this is way to extreme. I want to say Spaßbremse, fun brake. A person that brakes (stops) fun/party, but not a killer.
Since it is very loosely connected to the other entry posted this morning, I'll ping you again, @Nikokaro (you probably wouldn't notice otherwise because the blog section is more dead than alive and tends to get ignored)
First of all: I'm really bad at understanding most of the pictures in the funny pictures and memes threads (and most of the time I stay quiet for that reason). Sometimes curiosity gets the better of me, forcing me to ask something or just comment – and this is the case here.
Rather than replying into the threads every now and then, I'll this time put the reply into my blog to not come across as fun killer/killjoy¹ once again.
Now we have this post, picture only ,no own text comment alongside.
I hope I have grasped the meaning of this one:
Women feel devastated, defeated and desperate (alliteration not on purpose) seeing a picture of cartoonish women with exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics (also known as "big tits") combined with an overly well(?)-proportioned body.
Men on the other side, will see a picture of very muscular cartoonish men as an encouragement to improve their own body.
And this – questionable – message is transported with an example picture where the cartoonish women are so much exaggerated, that they would be seriously ill if they were real, especially the left one with the tiny waist (also thinking of early Lara Croft pictures – the artwork and complex rendering, not the in-game representation, that is, as all early 3D games, for incomprehensible reasons inseparable connected with stupid jokes from the IQ-below-room-temperature "has not aged well"-fad).
The cartoonish men are also exaggerated to a little lesser extent. I want to throw into the considerations, that any individual has some influence on their own degree of fitness, while influencing the size of the female breasts is fairly limited with natural means not affecting the rest of the body simultaneously. The comparison is misleading because of this.
Without the tears in the eyes and without any desperation I can fully agree with the pink-haired girl: The over-sexualized representation indeed brings across a wrong picture of real female bodies.
To put it in modern hieroglyphs, also known as emojis, my reaction on the stupid caricature of females is "" and not ""
The misleading comparison is at least
Being ugly myself beyond any description ( ), my general attitude towards comparing oneself to pretty(?) cartoon pictures can also best described by a modern hieroglyph:
______________________
¹ Now that English phrases dict.leo.org suggested sound really aggressive. Why does it have to contain "kill" each time? Even in figurative sense this is way to extreme. I want to say Spaßbremse, fun brake. A person that brakes (stops) fun/party, but not a killer.