Comments on: calling bullshit on FOX and ABC: the “inappropriate” plus-sized woman

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:20:02 +0000

I have to admit, I'm kinda thinking it was a PR stunt. There are a few reasons why and you can read them ,a href="http://curvesmart.blogspot.com/search/label/CENSORSHIP%20OR%20PR%20HYPE%3F%20THE%20LANE%20BRYANT%20LINGERIE%20AD">here. Otherwise, if you want to see more larger models strutting their fine selves around in the glorious skin God gave them, here over to this spot on teh internetz. They aren't all nude, but suggestive - hell yes!

By: Dez

Dez — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:10:42 +0000

I love plus-sized models. They look so natural and beautiful, and that’s what I like about them. I don’t really care what FOX or ABC think about it, but even if they won’t show plus-sized models in a sexy way at all (even non-nude ones) it doesn’t mean I can’t still find them on the Internets! (Wake up ABC, that means I’m not watching TV! Lalala, I can’t hear you~)

By: violet

violet — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:31:28 +0000

see the update above, FOX and ABC responded!

By: mina

mina — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:45:08 +0000

Wait! They won’t air a commercial like that during a show that displays women wearing barely any clothes in the first place??? Wow, just wow.

By: violet

violet — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:15:44 +0000

Ian, thanks for pointing out the Salon blog post by Clark-Flory. I read it and could not find a justifiable reason to link to it here (and it should be noted that Tracy and I have read together in the past, are on good terms, etc.). As you mentioned in your comment, it is Flory suggesting that “this is a disingenuous publicity stunt” without any source for the opinion — and in fact, the networks declined to comment. As is my experience with big media outlets (like the recent SFgate fracas) they typically don’t comment on things that are true, whereas if someone (or a company) is making untrue statements they are *all over* that legally actionable shit. Believe me, and believe my lawyers.

So LB sticks by their story, and ABC mutters no comment. Salon kicks up dust but doesn’t actually say anything except gosh “we’ll never know”. I’m guessing they needed a different hook for their blog post than mine.

Now, don’t we wonder who Salon is citing as their ‘via’?

By: Tinamarie Bernard

Tinamarie Bernard — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:58:11 +0000

She is absolutely gorgeous.I’m thinking the boobs at the station were jealous of her ‘ladies’.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:15:00 +0000

When the world is used to looking at girls with a ten year old boys figure anything with a real curve on it is considered inappropriate.

Dunno what planet I’m from, but the model they used isn’t in my definition of plus size. Speaking as a ‘plus sized’ man that is.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:19:12 +0000

It behooves me that some people still don’t get it: EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT! I don’t WANT to be a rail thin, bones protruding woman ever again. I dealt with the constant hardships of being as such when I was a teenager and young adult. Now that I am older I am happy with the body I’ve developed. I’m glad I don’t suffer with the issues being the size of a pencil used to bring me and as long as I am healthy, happy and confident, that’s really all that matters. Refusing to run ads like the one above without ridiculous conditions just confirms, yet again, the media is a social tether to self-loathing, self-deprivation and poor body image. Until the general media decides to stop “regulating beauty” we will always suffer such traumas. Thank you, VB, for standing up for beauty of all shapes and sizes.
Be beautiful,
Gigi– size 8, 36|26|40

By: Redme

Redme — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:50:19 +0000

Thanks for this news. BTW, the model in the ad is not fat at all; she is normal.

Dan is getting some nice dessert after their lunch.

Lettuce hope that the publicists get a lot more attention now that they have been dissed.

By: Ian W

Ian W — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:58:54 +0000

Article on Salon(?) last night suggesting the story **might** be a put-up job by LB to garner more attention: the last 10 mins of this show is apparently a good slot?

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:11:32 +0000

I found this commercial to be far better than any Victoria’s Secret commercial. And I thought it was decided only the nipple couldn’t be shown? These networks constantly run shows where women try to show their cleavage, but of course those are the smaller women shoved into our faces.

By: Cali

Cali — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:40:10 +0000

That is NOT fat! That is voluptuous, curvy, gorgeous and hotness personified! I would give my right leg to look like that! (Hey, I need my arms to type!) These women make the usual emaciated, angry-looking lingerie models seem about as sexy as Larry King. Who wants to fuck a hungry, pissed off bag of bones?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:05:17 +0000

I believe that the Victoria’s Secrets (VS) commercials are more suggestive. Perhaps it was a matter of how much more money VS pays for advertising compared to Lane Bryant? I bet you $50,000 more and the network would not have complained as much!

The Lane Bryant ad was certainly suggestive, as many commercials are these days. It is called a target audience! The woman featured in the commercial was not fat, obese, or difficult to look at. What’s the problem?

By: LoveHoney Hella

LoveHoney Hella — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:37:15 +0000

I guess the trouble is that the woman is *actually* attractive. With a gorgeous body and incredible assets. Victoria secrets models are orange with frazzled and fake hair. I get visions of plastic staring at those chicks whereas that woman actually invoked some kind of erotic sensuality.

Either that, or the idea of wearing *shock* just a bra and knickers under a coat is too much ;)

By: Vid Tuesday

Vid Tuesday — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:05:39 +0000

That is FAR less provocative than any Victoria's Secret ad I've seen on television. These networks will just have to come to terms with the fact that some women (in fact, the *average* woman) has a certain amount of cleavage that is larger than a size 00-2 model. Especially with recent articles claiming the average bra size in the U.S. has moved from a B to a C cup, with D cups becoming more prevalent as well. Hell, I have friends who are FF and H cups. Are they inherently inappropriate, obscene or not family-friendly?