Memento Mori
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Your point about their irrationality is taken, I just don't understand how exactly even perfect knowledge by the entire world of who is going to be in the magazine would negatively impact their revenue. They need to relax. They're managing a special issue of a magazine with pictures of women in bikinis, not state or even trade secrets. I can understand hiding the cover, for their talk show reveal tie-ins. Beyond that? The secrecy, combined with how needlessly they manipulate the entire Rookie voting process, gives me the impression there are producers in charge with delusions of grandeur. But that's just my read, I don't know any of these people. Most people I know don't have the slightest clue who most (if not all) of these models even are. Indeed, this is anecdotal but, the consensus among my friends--and indeed most people I follow on social media--is that SI's swimsuit issue is a bemusing relic of pre-internet pornography that is content-equivalent to Maxim, only with insufferable levels of pretension and baffling media relevance. Clearly I'm in this thread so that's not my view, but I can't imagine any of those people (nor indeed the Chive-like bro-sites that repost all the eventual images) give a shit about what SI's up to months in advance of release. So... who is their hype/pre-release media strategy actually for?
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Found myself in a Denise mood and made a bunch of gifs from her older stuff. There are a lot so I grouped them.
Speaking of SI, I did some new--borderline nsfw--gifs of her old (2014) appearance.
Yeah for my part, when I like a VS model, I often dislike their actual VS work--outside of the commercials--because of the ugly Photoshop. But I mean, nobody is (or ought to be) making career choices about what pictures dudes on the internet like best. I still like these two, though:
Super old (2011) content, but new gifs, because I felt like it:
For those with a certain mindset, familiarity breeds contempt. Two people from Bumhole Wherever are just as likely as not to defer to common, if potentially awkward, decency when experiencing new cultures. Perception matters a lot, perception is effected by the environment, and ours is certainly incredibly toxic towards those who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent or to practice the Islamic faith. Taylor is young enough to have grown up entirely in a post-9/11 world in which such behavior has been normalized in media and encouraged by many of her country's political leaders and public intellectuals. This is not an excuse, but an explanation: It is possible to know better, but not if the people around her have all the same problems as some have claimed. That's not to suggest Taylor's out there watching the GOP primary debates, or Real Time With Bill Maher, but those attitudes permeate the culture. Celebrities, being relatively insulated as they are from substantive consequences for having bad opinions, have little incentive to educate themselves and routinely demonstrate an incapability to grasp delicate issues. Even Modelfanatic's avatar has not been immune to just this sort of behavior. But like I said, this sort of shit is common, we just tend to find out when celebrities do it. Nobody in the media is reporting on, nor is there a forum thread dedicated to, your racist cousin.
A couple more gifs from Guess
Gifs From The Day After Tomorrow
So your comeback is that by pointing out the racist history of the kind of thinking this thread exhibits, I'm a secret racist, because I like one blonde woman? Great sociology goin' on in this thread. I expect you'll be ready to publish soon. In any case, you're wrong. Those political agendas were adopted, promoted, and perpetuated deliberately by self-professed and widely-acknowledged "real scientists" for a very long time. That's what makes them, and casual references to "natural selection," in the context of this thread so odious. Anyway, I've had enough.
I'm cool with mocking or condemnation, tbh. Keep up the good work!
Why? Is this not part of natural selection? That's what scientific racists, eugenicists, and later, actual Nazis thought. I'm not surprised we've ended up here given the earlier reference to craniometry. This is a bad thread.
If only history provided us with reasons why establishing such standards, measuring these things, and attributing them (or not) to physical attributes might be bad.
I'm a historian. I find sociology incredibly useful. If that's what you think you're doing here, go nuts I guess. I look forward to the incisive critical analysis in this thread.
You and I have pretty different understandings of "interesting," too, it seems.
It doesn't look like anything. The alternative title for this thread is "let's perpetuate stereotypes!"
