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His skin looks thicker than an elephant's hide, I'm sure he can take it.
Besides if he's sensitive about these things I suggest he don't throw down then he won't have to dodge the slings and arrows of retaliatory negative opinion when he steps himself in that particular spotlight. Nobody is having a go at him for his services to humanity here.
Oh and I'm more than happy with who I see in the mirror btw, but I'm quite sure you, like Karl, don't think I should be! Not that I pay too much mind to misogynistic opinion. Well other than to ridicule it, which is as it should be.
Wow!! Based on the smack talking going on here, it looks like some of you ladies are waaaaaay worse than Old Mr. Lagerfeld. I think some of YOU should take a look in the mirror. Seriously.
So what he says something that he believes to be true, and you guys disagree with him saying ho horrible he is to say that, then you turn around and say spiteful and meaner things about this man you have never met. Pot, meet kettle.
I'm not a lady myself. Most of my smack talk is filled with resentment because I'm sick of beautiful ladies going crazy with insecurity because some d-bag with a media pulpit claims to have any idea what constitutes beauty. The resultant crazy insecurity kind of depletes the whole beauty factor (if not completely erradicating it!), and while we're each responsible for our own mind, I take great joy in calling b.s. on people who fuel erroneous notions that detract from the essence of humanity.
Also, I'd assert that I'd have to make a nasty generalization about all fashion designers and people who enjoy their products for the whole pot/kettle allegory to work in this context. He's making a generalization about all who disagree with him, whereas most people on this forum are just calling him out for what he has demonstrated he is... an out-of-touch moron.
Lao Tzu, meet Confucius... not that either of us is so vain for comparison (or lacking in vanity), but just to use your username to give you a similarly expressed idea why I'm going to push my take on this no matter how much you push having less take.
As a society, we don't have room to respect people in influential positions if they attempt to push ideas that are detrimental and worthless to our overall functionality. It's important to validate ideas that harbor genuine self-improvement and realistic self image, while also helping more gullible folks see this b.s. for what it is so their gullibility can be harnessed for ideas that deserve to be heeded.
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Reason: changed "euphamism" to "allegory"... getting too word-happy. ;)
I'm not a lady myself. Most of my smack talk is filled with resentment because I'm sick of beautiful ladies going crazy with insecurity because some d-bag with a media pulpit claims to have any idea what constitutes beauty. The resultant crazy insecurity kind of depletes the whole beauty factor (if not completely erradicating it!), and while we're each responsible for our own mind, I take great joy in calling b.s. on people who fuel erroneous notions that detract from the essence of humanity.
Also, I'd assert that I'd have to make a nasty generalization about all fashion designers and people who enjoy their products for the whole pot/kettle euphamism to work in this context. He's making a generalization, whereas most people on this forum are just calling him out for what he has demonstrated he is... an out-of-touch moron.
Lao Tzu, meet Confucius... not that either of us is so vain for comparison (or lacking in vanity), but just to use your username to give you a similarly expressed idea why I'm going to push my take on this no matter how much you push having less take.
As a society, we don't have room to respect people in influential positions if they attempt to push ideas that are detrimental and worthless to our overall functionality. It's important to validate ideas that harbor genuine self-improvement and realistic self image, while also helping more gullible folks see this b.s. for what it is so their gullibility can be harnessed for ideas that deserve to be heeded.
stingraynm, I think I love you! Where are all the men like you hiding?
stingraynm, I think I love you! Where are all the men like you hiding?
LOL!! Share?
A great post, I agree. He's managed a couple of other really good ones lately and now I gotta spread the love before I can rep him again.
I have to say though my fella always makes me feel like a million bucks.
I think a lot of guys are as mystified by the "haute couture" impossible fantasy constraints placed on women as women are themselves.
Seriously. One of my partner's favorite pics of me was taken first thing in the morning while I was still bleary eyed, with bed head and resplendent in my Elmo pyjamas. That's about as far from Mr Lagerfield's faux world as it gets.
stingraynm, I think I love you! Where are all the men like you hiding?
Thanks, I'm flattered.
And to answer your question, I'm sure the hiding places are various, but in my case it'd be a (twice) shy disposition, some mid-section girth, books, hiking trails, and a love affair with autonomy (which was derived from the "twice" and utilized to accept the "girth"). I really can't blame women who don't care to coax me from hiding, and I relish in finding the few who can relay a shiney-eyed smile and profound wit right through it all.
But thanks again, as I'm always pleased to get reassurance that my perspective has retained its eligibility. That's the one thing I hope to keep in good shape all the way to death.
I'm not sure if Elizabeth Taylor's mom liked to hold hands but I know for a fact Elizabeth does.
(The only time I object are the photos of Celebrities or anyone else in comprised situations as in exposing a body part that was exposed by accident.) Then people post them that is just rude. ( Or in comprised situations in private that is also rude and illegal)
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I'm a straight 19 year old boy (clearly not the "fat mummies" demographic), and I am not usually a huge fan of supermodel bodies most of the time either. I think that when most guys say they like supermodel type girls, it's really mostly because of their faces (if we're talking about faces, then yes, those girls are extremely beautiful facially), and since all they see are the airbrushed/photoshopped pics with "inflated" characteristics if you catch my drift. All of those girls in Victoria's Secret catalogs have really nice faces, but their bodies aren't that great in my opinion. The only supermodels whose bodies I really like are Bar something or another (she was on the SI cover recently), and some VS angel from the Netherlands (starts with a D), and surprisingly, I've heard a lot of girls claim that those two are fat/ugly.
I think you'll find that most guys like athletic bodies, not stick figures with breasts. If any of you all know who Allison Stokke is, she has basically the perfect body, and I honestly think that 75% of guys will pick a girl that looks like that over the stick-thin VS models if the face is the same. There are plenty of guys that like really, really slim girls, but I think the majority won't go for that if given the choice.
Now you're probably wondering why I'm commenting on this given that I'm a guy, but I really don't like this tall and lanky look in our society. It's not only affecting women who are self-concious enough as it is, but I've noticed a lot of guys my age are worrying about their weight or their looks now. It's not healthy, and people have to realize that everyone's genetics are different, and the key is to maximize whatever your genes allow. If you are naturally slim, try and go for that leaner look without being a toothpick, and if you're naturally bigger, go for the more muscular/athletic look without looking like a roided out freak, but don't let the media say that only one look is in, because that's not right and it's unhealthy IMO.
/rant.
I am starting to notice the manorexia trend in men-mostly younger guys. I see it on campus all of the time. Yuck!
I always hear men say they like curves, but there was a time when I was really really thin (5'8, 105 pounds, a size 0 was too big for me), and I got hit on all of the time. Now that I'm healthy at a size 6 (or fat, depending on who you ask, me or my husband LOL)...let's just say I don't turn heads like I used to.
Agree with the poster who said Karl whats-his-face looks like a garden gnome.
Really that about sums it up. LOL. A lot of fashion designers are like this. Valentino has made some really biotchy remarks about people too, I recall him calling Paris Hilton an "ugly skank" and I LMAO!
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Nobody is having a go at him for his services to humanity here. 
Not that I pay too much mind to misogynistic opinion. 
Well other than to ridicule it, which is as it should be. 
Based on the smack talking going on here, it looks like some of you ladies are waaaaaay worse than Old Mr. Lagerfeld. I think some of YOU should take a look in the mirror. Seriously. 
), and while we're each responsible for our own mind, I take great joy in calling b.s. on people who fuel erroneous notions that detract from the essence of humanity. 
