I really don't understand why male models don't concentrate on legs. 60% of muscles are located in legs. It seems this people don't workout legs. No doubt they have good upper body but it should be evenly matched by toned and muscular legs. Otherwise there is no point in wearing those beach shorts. Even in gyms i see people only concentrating on chest, abs and biceps and they don't workout back and legs. This leads to disproportional body. Chicken legs dont look good at all.
We are doing greatest disservice to women and their rights by objectifying their bodies for commercial purposes. Art nudity is different but this nudity for selling clothes is exploitation under garb of glamour and like slaves of past, women giving performances of nudity think it normal to be a slave.
Re: Selling clothes different from show of semi-nudity
by a m on Apr 21, 2015 02:36 PM
Nothing wrong with semi nudity or even complete nudity. The wrong is to adopt artificial inhibitions, making culture an excuse, and then to seek to impose those inhibitions as a moral requirement. There cannot be anything morally wrong about simple natural physical things like pleasure of seeing a human body nude or clothed.
Inhibitions are only justified and have a moral good or bad value when they concern doing good or harm to humans. Wearing or not wearing clothes or certain types of clothes is inherently neutral to others. It can not have any effect on the well being or freedom of others, is neither intrinsically harmful nor useful to others, and therefore has no good or bad moral value.
On the other hand imposing arbitrary inhibitions on others is harmful to them by taking away their freedom. Morality associated with clothes is wrong if applied to others. It is only harmless when applied strictly to oneself. No one has any moral duty to adopt such arbitrary beliefs or inhibitions of others, nor does anyone has right to impose them on others. People who find it hard to be free themselves have a right to show their state of inhibition, but not the right to ask others to be inhibited too.
Re: Selling clothes different from show of semi-nudity
by subhash on Apr 21, 2015 09:44 PM
Mr. Rajesh, I totally differ from you. You think that way because traditional Indian Men always bound women as 'Wife' of Mr. L, 'Sister' of Mr. M, 'Mother' of Mr. N and 'Daughter' of Mr. X.
In my opinion, just as Traditional Men Body-building or Wrestling contests, that are organized in every village of India, which demand the wrestler Men to wear a single small piece of cloth which makes them 98% NAKED, does not sound to be objectifying the Wrestling Men, similarly, a Beach wear round would naturally demand the modelling girl to be wearing less cloths and it should nowhere mean objectification.
It's absolutely your own upbringing, that makes typical Indian Men to think the modelling Girl to be a whore or prostitute.
I never thought it that way.
Even, Beauty Contest should be taken as an entertaining event and if a contestant woman has taken special efforts on her slim figure, there is no harm to exhibit in that contest. That should not mean that the woman is living under slavery of Males. Nor the society has any authority to harm modesty of those Modelling Ladies .
