And worse, a good example of anorexia mixed with silicone.
I ask again: Where do you see signs of _anorexia_? Because I really don't.
There isn't a single ounce of "chub" anywhere there. I don't hold that "model" of femininity to a high standard. It's unrealistic.
And that, RunningWild, is slimness, not anorexia.
Anorexia is something entirely different. It's a sickness, a disorder that kills people if left untreated. Please do not use the word "anorexia" to mean "thinner than I personally like", because that is not what it means, it is devaluating and blurring the meaning of the word.
Anorexic does NOT mean slim or thin (not even very thin). Being thin is not the same as being anorexic, even if anorexia can lead to a person being thin. But they are still _two different things_.
Looking at the people in the images, that is really not what a person suffering from anorexia looks like at the stage where you could tell they have it.
If you use "anorexic" in stead of "thin", you are not helping the real people who suffer from anorexia, on the contrary, you are doing them harm by blurring the meaning of the word.
And by using the word of a severe disorder to decribe the bodies of people who happen to have a body thinner than your own ideal, you are in fact saying that you think they must have something wrong with them, or that their bodies look sick and ugly.
How is that any better than saying chubby people are ugly and should diet?
And as for your comment on that "model" of femininity being unrealistic: well, apart from the obvious wigs, makeup, and climbing mountains in high heels...
No. Really no. I know a lot of people who look kind of like that (except for the XL breasts), people who don't have "a single ounce of chub anywhere", and who look that way not because of disease or dieting, but because they... just happened to turn out like that. Like some people turn out tall, or short, hairy, smooth, broad-shouldered, brown, or really really pale. It's one of many varieties well within the range of what is normal and healthy for human beings.
So calling that kind of body type "unrealistic" is saying what again? That a person shouldn't look like that? Can't look like that? That it's impossible or wrong to look like that? Offensive to common taste (or yours)? Again, how is that any better than telling a chubbier person that _their_ body is wrong because _you_ don't like it?
I get that you are fed up with the narrow ideals of femininity, and you don't like the art, but these are not drawings. They are photos of real people. Real people out there have these bodies – or bodies like these – and you are telling them that they are sick and their bodies wrong. You are allowed to have your opinion, but please think about what you are saying. You are using hurtful, degrading, and judgmental language about people's bodies, thus reinforcing the notion that a woman's body is not her own but something that should be up for scrutiny and judgment by strangers. Body-shaming is a serious issue that causes a lot of pain in people, if you don't like it happening to you, please don't do it towards others.
I'm insulted by it as well and won't be purchasing it. And, fyi, many here HAVE created their own decks.
Okay. Firstly: fyi – I know that, I'm neither new here nor stupid, so you don't need to lecture me on that.
Secondly: please read what I wrote: I didn't say NOBODY has made a deck here, but there are a lot of members and many (I'm going to make a _real wild guess_ and even say MOST who have been at the forum at one time or another) have not. Because it's a lot of work.
I get that you don't like that the deck exists, but I don't get why you found it necessary to snap at me when I have nothing to do with that. Please don't do that.
