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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie: Because You Can Never Be Too Rich Or Too Thin!

Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Well, hello 20-inch waist. Also, Karl, you should really learn to keep your yapper shut sometimes.

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Gross.

/That's all I have to say about that.

Posted by Banna

on February 7, 2012 at 12:26 PM

This woman is badly deformed. :(

Posted by very bad homo on February 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM

AAAAAH KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!

Posted by UNPAID COMMENTER on February 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM

omg i kept expecting her to snap in half suddenly...

Posted by subwlf on February 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM

okay, I give up, where does she keep her intestines and stuff?

Posted by Purocuyu

on February 7, 2012 at 12:35 PM

Looks like a character from Star Wars.

Posted by Jamie in Pittsburgh

on February 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM

almost lost my lunch with that one

Posted by PapaKipChee on February 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM

Someone call a doctor!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on February 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM

I find it hard to believe that people actually found that silhouette attractive before the Civil War. Even without the puffy skirt it is digusting.

Posted by Schweighsr on February 7, 2012 at 12:58 PM

Uncanny valley like whoa.

Posted by Kyleen on February 7, 2012 at 1:02 PM

I wonder if everyone who's so disgusted and offended feels similarly about other extreme body mods? I say live and let live, and if she's happy, I won't judge her any more than I take offense at the ear gaugers, whole-body tattooers, or extreme piercers. Whatever.

Posted by also on February 7, 2012 at 1:09 PM

Kelly,
That's looks really uncomfortable AND unhealthy. Nope. I don't like her appearance.

Posted by lark on February 7, 2012 at 1:17 PM

To all those who go "ew disgusting!" I don't see how this is any worse than this 99.9% of how women are drawn in comics and video games. She's taken what we're all told is supposed to be perfection and attained it. Good for her.
I'll just leave some examples:
http://wallpaperswide.com/thumbs/batman_…
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/articl…
http://mycdn.theexcitantgroup.netdna-cdn…

Posted by stirwise on February 7, 2012 at 1:23 PM

I think she's gorgeous.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on February 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM

uh this is like art right? like twisted self commentary extremism. so then we are talking about extreme skinny in the form of $$$ and design. ok. so it's like a form of fetish. ok. does it have any influence? can we make this a comment of the fashion worlds obsession with skinny? does that even matter?

as a social porn consumer, we dont usually step on each others' toes regarding categories out of one's taste. we especially go out of the way not to judge the extreme stuff that is out there, but simply offer that its Fucked Up. But whatever.

So I think either its just an extreme form of porn, or it is an extreme form of expression of what a normative industry (fashion) holds to be ideal.

Posted by aardvark on February 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM

Thanks for helping to disseminate thinspo/triggering.

Posted by Mr. J on February 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM

Creepsville. I like to look at pretty girls at least as much as the next straight guy does, but this is NASTY. Bleahhhh.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber

on February 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM

She looks like the evil spider mom in Coraline.

Posted by uhh... on February 7, 2012 at 2:37 PM

@13: Because something is drawn in a comic book doesn't make it "what we're all told is supposed to be perfection"...that's a false correlation. Comics are, almost by definition, hyper-stylized and NON-real. And besides, the proportions of the samples you've cited feature muscular, strong bodies, not the emaciated freakshow figure here.

Try again.

Posted by schmacky on February 7, 2012 at 3:02 PM

It just looks very uncomfortable. Plus, I'm surprised she's able to stand and walk that much, given that she can't be getting all that much oxygen into her system, what with her lungs strapped down in their exhale position.

Posted by COMTE

on February 7, 2012 at 3:22 PM

that shape is "natural" like my cat is a wizard.

Posted by drivel on February 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM

Makes her hips look freakishly huge

Posted by loe

on February 7, 2012 at 3:38 PM

@19: the shapes in comics/games are intended to be desirable and are a direct reflection of the artist's "ideal" female form. We're subjected to images like this (and images of humans photoshopped to closely resemble this) all the time, it has always appeared to me that these proportions are what men think women are "supposed" to look like, or at the very least are what men are told they're supposed to think women are supposed to look like. Trying to deny that the Barbie/Catwoman body type is not a typical representation of the female ideal is ridiculous.
Also, everything I posted featured female figures with significantly tiny waists, no muscular form looks like that. Just because an artist paints lines on the abdomen doesn't mean it resembles "muscular." Oh, and the bust-waist-hip proportions of the typical comic book female are even more exaggerated than the woman corseting up top.
So, uh, try again?

Posted by stirwise on February 7, 2012 at 3:44 PM

@5 - What would she need intestines for? Intestines are used for digesting food you silly person!

Posted by subwlf on February 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM

@16, Ironic, because for me this model represents a fate to avoid.

Posted by More, I Say! on February 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM

try ANYTHING by rob liefeld
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/…

Posted by real women have abdomens on February 7, 2012 at 4:28 PM

After doing a little research, that's not a corset or a body mod - that's natural. She was born that way.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on February 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM

@27: Uh-oh. Do we still have to hate her while we pity her mindless pursuit of the ideals society forced onto her?

Posted by also on February 7, 2012 at 5:18 PM

@27: She's wearing a corset in the video, giving her ~15" waist. She's naturally got a 20" waist. Here's a picture of her in a bikini:
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kfmbfm/DS…

Posted by stirwise on February 7, 2012 at 7:15 PM