As soon as I saw Wendy I immediately identified that she looks a lot like me. Glad to know that I have a horse face. And I actually have sweated once or twice in the past as well, oh the shame! I’m such a disgusting monster! All the rest of the women pictured remind me of people I have known and loved. So, basically- choke on a cock, Bacardi.

I am ashamed that for a moment I experienced the same sickening feeling that was commonplace when walking down the halls of my middle school feeling sexless and mockery-worthy for not having a “feminine” shape. I know the common trope is that “you can never be thin enough!” and that thin is always better, but I beleive that is simply because it is generally easier for the average person to become “too fat” than “too thin” rather than any actually aesthetic reasons (see that Wendy is actually suffering from this, as her “hot” friend has a “steaming booty” which Wendy does not, given her 15” (!) waist). As someone on this rarer side of the coin (really, really stick thin, no matter what I eat or do) I just want to assure everyone that there is, in fact, no “right way” to be. I know this because I had a hormonal time in my life when I actually did manage to gain a few pounds (in the “right places” too!) and I went from hearing “way too thin”, “real women have curves”, “men don’t want to touch a toothpick”, “why do that to yourself, it looks terrible” one week, to “haha! your metabolism caught up with you!”, “looks like it’s time to find a gym”, “you can still rely on your personality” etc.

I think we should try to all realize that the “too-whatever” labels are actually designed so that at least one will fit every single one of us. This way we are all insecure, we are all struggling (and purchasing things)to not be something, and there is always a derisive lable to put on another woman so we can keep fighting and hating and competing with each other. I didn’t fully understand this till reading “the beauty myth” but like a magic trick with the “trick” exposed, it’s now glaringly obvious in most advertising. And then, for that .0001% of women who are actually “flawless”, they can be defineed as “too pretty” and we can all hate her for her obscene good luck and look down on her as being all about her looks, and probably stupid, shallow and obsessed with her own beauty.

Sorry for the crazily long rant, this just really, really rubbed me the wrong way. Thanks for posting this though, I enjoying reading everybody’s sexy, feminist take-downs of this bilge.

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Even if it is in Italian, it is easy to understand what is happening: a very sad comparation between a stunning blonde model (a former Miss Italy or something like that), who clearly drinks a lot of this water, and a very normal girl, not tall and not skinny. The bad judges are a group of pretty women who praise the blonde – you’re pure and beautiful, the say -and openly despice the ordinary girl “get pure with the water”.

Even if we are used to see misogynistic and offensive ads, this one has caused a schock in many viewers, not only women, and a lot of protest messages on the company’s website. I think that it is not right to tolerate such things, only silence is shame, as someone said.

Give the media enough rope and they’ll hang themselves. They’ve always exposed their own hypocrisy, but this takes the cake. (whoops, stay away from cake, you’ll end up like these girls!) You’re either too old, too young, too fat, too thin, not thin enough, not pretty enough, too pretty, too funny, not funny enough, your self esteem is too low, your self esteem is too high. No matter what you do, there will always be something wrong with you. That kind of shit gets into your head, believe me, whether you’re strong-willed or not.