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Does I Look Fat To You, Ralph Lauren?

Oct 14, 2009
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Tip to Ralph Lauren:  When a woman, any woman, asks you whether she looks heavy, the answer is, "No, sweetheart, you look lovely."  Or perhaps, "I like that color."

Anything other than, "You'd look beautiful with Photoshop," or for that matter, "You're fired, you fat pig." Especially when the woman is a model who only weighs 120 pounds and, by any objective, non-Auschwitz-survivor standard, is beautiful:

Filippa Hamilton fired model for Ralph Lauren

And most especially when the woman, one day, might be able to take her revenge in the press.

Boycott Ralph Lauren!

(Thanks to commenter Becky for the tip)

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  1. Ken  •  Oct 14, 2009 @4:28 pm

    More Ralph grotesqueries.

  2. Scott Jacobs  •  Oct 15, 2009 @6:20 am

    First, regarding the comment-supplied link:

    Who the hell even finds that attractive? She looks like a complete freak. I think I threw up a little in my mouth.

    As to the pic in the post: That's the gal they fired? Seriously???

    Apparently RL is run by VERY gay men who have no idea what is attractive in a woman. I mean, holy cow… I would not kick that woman outta bed for eating crackers… Hell, I wouldn't kick her outta bed if she was stabbing me.

  3. Patrick  •  Oct 15, 2009 @6:31 am

    Yeah Scott, but she's imperfect. Her eyebrows are a little wide, and I'll bet she has thick ankles.

  4. Jdog  •  Oct 15, 2009 @6:43 am

    She's utterly stunning, albeit on the skinny side. And, no, there is persuasive evidence that she doesn't have thick ankles.

    I bow to no man on my willingness to appreciate superficial beauty, but I've never gotten some of the bizarreness around some folks' sexual fixations on the asexuality of anorexia.

  5. Scott Jacobs  •  Oct 15, 2009 @6:57 am

    Jdog, it is bad form to refer to evidence, and then not submit it so that we may judge it for ourselves…

  6. Jdog  •  Oct 15, 2009 @7:54 am

    I am appropriately chastened. Here is a really great piece . . . of evidence, of course.

  7. David T  •  Oct 16, 2009 @9:13 am

    You don't understand. Being a model is not about being beautiful. Being a model is about making the clothes look beautiful. So many models look… emaciated, phthisic, tubercular. But the clothes sure hang on them nicely!

    You look at that woman's picture above, and what do you do? You imagine her without her clothes. But Ralph Lauren wants you to imagine the clothes without her. So she gets fired.

    A similar dynamic holds up in much of the dance world, where the female dancers would (individually) look a lot more beautiful if they gained some curves (both in fat and in muscle) and quit smoking. Of course, they would look better, but the ensemble wouldn't.