Thinner Beauty Is Using Photoshop to Help Plus-Size Women Lose Weight

[Tennis]

http://mic.com/articles/124348/thinn...to-lose-weight

Good idea really.

Thinner Beauty endeavors to "help" plus-size women lose weight. It does this by offering Photoshopped images of what they could look like if they were thinner.

"We do this [encourage them] by showing how much more beautiful they could be if they made the difficult, lifelong commitment to a regimen of personal fitness," reads a banner on the group's subreddit.

The movement is operating on many platforms, with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages (all three of which have been removed), a subreddit, a Twitter hashtag and its own website. It's also affiliated with Project Harpoon, which has the same mission and bases their name off the "man the harpoons" meme, which consists of pictures of people considered overweight (suggesting they are whales and should, therefore, be harpooned).

The Thinner Beauty website features a gallery of "before and after" photos: Plus-size women's bodies are dramatically manipulated to take on very different shapes

As usual guess who is all offended once again?

[Snes]

The "by showing how much more beautiful they could be" is where they kind of botched their message, that's what's going to set people off.

[Grimbold21]

Oh triggers have been....triggered

[Tennis]

They are right though? There's no beauty in being obese.

[Deleted]

They are right though? There's no beauty in being obese.

Where does it end tho?

Pretty much every picture of every model and celebrity you see are heavily photoshopped. No matter how fit or hot you are, you would look better after some photoshop.

[Deleted]

They are right though? There's no beauty in being obese.

I once had a manager that was very much into BBWs, turns out there's even parties for BBWs & admirers.

[A Chozo]

Wait, so, when you lose weight, the boobs remain the same?

Can someone confirm this?!?!

[TITAN308]

The one where the fat red head is made a thinner red head. Would bang like a drum if I was a single man.

Edit:

[Gheld]

Wait, so, when you lose weight, the boobs remain the same?

Can someone confirm this?!?!

Not completely the same. They'll be smaller, but a higher percentage of their mass will be glandular tissue.

Also the photoshopper here didn't really account for the loss of fat in the face too. She'll also be wrinklier and have a bonier face.

[Lovecrafts]

I hate the fat acceptance movement. It's disgusting.
It promotes poor health, increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, increases diabetes, lowers life expectancy and quality of life and facilitates an environment when fat people don't take responsibility for themselves and their health.

I'm glad this is happening, I know people will hate on me for it, but fat shaming can save lives. I don't feel one bit bad if my giving someone a hard time about being a fatass, pushes them to actually fucking do something about it.

[Sole-Warrior]

I like this. Yeah, it's amusing how people can get so offended over trivial shit like this.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

I hate the fat acceptance movement. It's disgusting.

That's subjective.

It promotes poor health, increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, increases diabetes, lowers life expectancy and quality of life and facilitates an environment when fat people don't take responsibility for themselves and their health.

I agree on this part.

I'm glad this is happening, I know people will hate on me for it, but fat shaming can save lives. I don't feel one bit bad if my giving someone a hard time about being a fatass, pushes them to actually fucking do something about it.

Shaming can have three results:

• People will see the rationale and do changes in their lives.
• People will create self-preservating movements in self-protection. This is generally caused by anxiety of judgement, whichever the original reason.
• People will stop going outside and stay unhealthy to dodge judgements alltogether.

I never understood the shaming mentality. Yes, it's pushing a small minority of people to make changes. But that's the issue, it's only pushing a small minority and then this minority start bullying people who are fat. Honestly, it feel like we try to segregate a group of people without trying to understand their own rational and help them from there.

We shouldn't shame, we should encourage. We should congratulate people who are healthy and we should encourage people who are not, not shame them.

[Every Pwny]

It seems like a good way to motivate people to lose weight, giving them a visual goal and keep them focused if it's something they look at everyday to keep on track with their weight loss. I don't see the problem with this.

[dd614]

Thing is, there's plus-size like Ashley Graham, and then there's morbidly obese like that tattooed redhead. I don't think morbid obesity should be accepted, because it is very unhealthy, causes people to lead a life of disability and leads to premature death. Morbidly obese people should not be promoted as objects of beauty.

That said, I don't think shaming works. I'd rather see a fact-based approach as to why being morbidly obese is not healthy and not something one should emulate. If one refuses to change, then fuck em and there's nothing you can do.

[Fernling306]

Anything to get more people wanting to lose weight is a good thing in my eyes.

[Raptor With a Saber]

I remember when this whole 4chan thing started wasn't it called the Harpoon Project then?

[Crissi]

I highly doubt they know how to photoshop into realistic standards once thin. So I'm not crazy about this approach.

[Deleted]

I highly doubt they know how to photoshop into realistic standards once thin. So I'm not crazy about this approach.

This. So much this. Setting someone up for a goal that is incredibly unrealistic is not going to end well. People should want to lose weight for health reasons, not because they MIGHT look like an unrealistic image generated by someone with talents with photoshop.

Also, shaming is still not the right answer either. Encouraging people to want to be healthier is fine, browbeating is not.

[Lovecrafts]

That's subjective.



I agree on this part.



Shaming can have three results:

• People will see the rationale and do changes in their lives.
• People will create self-preservating movements in self-protection. This is generally caused by anxiety of judgement, whichever the original reason.
• People will stop going outside and stay unhealthy to dodge judgements alltogether.

I never understood the shaming mentality. Yes, it's pushing a small minority of people to make changes. But that's the issue, it's only pushing a small minority and then this minority start bullying people who are fat. Honestly, it feel like we try to segregate a group of people without trying to understand their own rational and help them from there.

We shouldn't shame, we should encourage. We should congratulate people who are healthy and we should encourage people who are not, not shame them.

Stop handling people with kids gloves. That's part of the reason why everyone's so goddamned offended all the time. Grow a thicker skin and toughen up.
You want to be a lazy sod and eat and eat and not exercise and turn into an unsightly blob? You deserve to be heckled a bit.

[ro9ue]

Shes fine. I'd hit it as is even. If she lost weight... even better.