Should brands be insclusive of all body types?

[HawkPerception]

Yes

No

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1 y

Miswording on my part peeps. Can't believe I didn't realize. I meant should brands advertise using anyone?

[blueonblack22]

Sure brands should be “all inclusive” of they want to go broke (go woke go broke). I mean having this “plus size” model on a front cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine must of skyrocketed their sales so much. I’m sure plenty of young women would aspire to look like Tess Holliday (cough)

Also I really like how “body positivity” just conveniently omits that sky high morbidity rates of obesity. Obesity is also a primary contributing factor for our insanely expensive healthcare insurance costs:

https://obesitymedicine.org/blog/health-economic-impact-of-obesity/

Fat people are much more likely going to suck up healthcare expenses and cost everybody more money in healthcare insurance premiums. But their such great role models though. So yeah let’s put their feelings and “inclusivity” first before reality.

But all sarcasm aside really how often do you see fat men complaining about “inclusivity” of different body types in brand advertising? Seriously. It’s always attention starved insecure fat ass women doing this ridiculous bullsh*t.

Scrawny guys and/or fat ass guys know they would look pathetic if they complained like fat women do. Those guys get zero attention themselves but they aren’t being crybabies about it.

https://babylonbee.com/news/mens-health-magazine-celebrates-body-positivity-with-first-fat-bodybuilder-on-the-cover

[Potteplante]

Lol, have you seen r/askmen 😂

But noooo, men have no insecurities and NEVER speak about them or bitch about anything. 😂😂😂 Men strong with no emotion besides anger, they no care. Just women who have those emotions and speak about them. Men don't care again because they've no emotions. You're SOOOOOOOOO right about it all.

[blueonblack22]

@Potteplante what is r / askmen?

Anyway do you see men organizing “short man” acceptance rallies or other crap? Do you see men filing lawsuits on brands to show more obese men in their marketing for “inclusivity”? Yeah we (often justifiably) complain on GAG and elsewhere even though it’s futile.

Women will never realize how special they are JUST for existing. Men are not special for just existing. We are only valued for what we can do for women (money, support, social optics, etc). But most women don’t even realize that or if they do they try to deny.

Anyway don’t want society to give men a shoulder to cry on but I am so SICK of women being entitled JUST for existing.

[blueonblack22]

thanks for MHO @HawkPerception

[HawkPerception]

@blueonblack22 well deserved

[blueonblack22]

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[foxsquirrell]

It's up to companies not for us to decide. If a company wants to market for chubby people and think it a good idea to hire chubby models to model their clothes it is their decision.

If you posed this question because you have in mind that all people should feel included then my answer is no. I would not include every body size just so everybody feels included. If someone isn't sexy I'm sorry there is nothing that can be done. But I'm not going to turn off the lights and cancel the party just so that the inferior ones don't feel the difference. They can choose not to notice. Sorry. And let everyone be please.

[just_a_potato]

To a certain degree. There should be inclusivity for sizes that fit the majority of the population and represent them. (Think size 6 to size 16 in women's). But when you start steering to one of the two extremes, either too large or too tiny, you aren't representing a majority anymore. It will send the wrong idea that either of those body sizes are healthy or acceptable to impressionable people.

[sdjaks]

No. Promoting it’s okay to be overweight is bad.

[sdjaks]

Thanks for the best answer reward

[HawkPerception]

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[RavVid]

NOOOOOOOOOO! Body affirmation shouldn't be done in bikinis.

I am still trying to get that women's image out of my memory. You brought it back damn you!

The rolls of fat had rolls of fat.

The girls in the pic are respectable, though I would kick one out of bed.

[KingslayerC]

Depends on the market they are aiming for. It's all about what their target demographic wants to see and/or wants to feel like. Completely a case by case basis.

Inclusivity for the mere sake of inclusion, is a terrible marketing strategy.

[andreasderjuengere]

Of course.

Please produce:

- wider toilet paper

- bigger aircraft seating

- lifts with a higher load capacity

- stronger bridges

- cars with larger doors

- fast food chains with larger portions

- XXXL coffins

... t. b. c.

[FunnyButNotFunnyHaHa]

Brands should do whatever they think is in their best interest.

If they think selling a wider range of sizes will make them more money, they should do it.

If they think the wider range of sizes won't make them more money,, then they shouldn't do it.

It's a business decision and nothing more.

[RingOfFire]

It's not the job of business to engage in some kind of social experiment. People go into business to make money. So they should do whatever is going to make them the most money. If producing all those sizes produces the most money great do that. If it doesn't, do something else. It's not a charity it's a business.

[MysticDevice]

"Should" isn't the best word. If they want to make money they'll make what the people need/want and they'll build a brand image to reflect that.

If they don't, they don't sell their products, and they don't earn money.

Thats just how the free market works.

[AviatorTom]

Brands should target the customers that make the company the most money. Capitalism at its finest.

[HawkPerception]

There has been less than very few cases of a companies adopting woke culture increasing their profits. I every almost every case, companies have been forced to go back to previous standards.

[MrPiercedD]

Being fat (there is no BBW and similar) is extremely not healthy. So when some brand is advertising their clothing for fat people then they are saying that being fat is ok.

[emeraldsaphire]

In what world wouldn't a brand want to sell a product. I do understand that it might not be profitable to sell size XXXXXXXXL, but if it is profitable to sell; then it should be sold

[molonski2]

Brand really represent the users , they target a certain segment , inclusive? Absolutely NOT.

[molonski2]

NO fatties in the Lingerie adverts , just don't manufacture in their size , plus if you make in these sizes you are saying okey to the Obese , and indirectly destroying lives.= UPDATE

[JustinTheGreat]

Well yeah. People of all sizes deserve to see their body type represented. How is someone bigger gonna know if something will look good on them if it’s only advertised using stick thin models

[PeachyPie93]

Sure.. why not? Since I don't give a fuck if someone is super skinny, normal or fat. People should have the option to wear what they want..

[PeachyPie93]

Well as for your update, maybe they should keep it to average men and women since that is the standard version of people lol.

[Marathonmama]

No it’s disgusting!! lingerie is for skinny hot chicks like me. People want to see my fine ass in lingerie not your flat blob

[zionman80]

Agreed

[Marathonmama]

@zionman80 thank you

[exitseven]

No, sitting next to a really fat person in movie theater can be challenging. Maybe the theater could have a fat section with wider seats.

[Blueeyes81]

No. They are a business and will make decisions based on that and that alone. If it's profitable they will do so but to cater to few so they feel included is a horrible business model.

[Phoenix98]

No not if your product is marketed towards a certain kind of buyer.

[TheStaleMarshmellow]

Targeted advertising seems to work better than a wide net approach

[JessAlb]

Yes

[QuietRunner]

Yes take the lesson from the Kool-Aid Man

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW6192cgV8g

[Knightwatch27]

Obese is not a body type, it's unhealthy. Emaciated is not a body type, it's unhealthy.

[Loki97]

Brands shouldn’t promote obesity.

[Potteplante]

Nope

[Dongie]

To late I voted. No. No anyway. By force? Ahhhh...

[Eleni0199]

Beauty is the eye of the beholder.

[PepperJackson]

No...