Women Are Defacing Ads Asking If They're "Beach Body" Ready Because It's Sooooo Sexist

More than probably anyone on staff, I get all this stuff with body image issues. The media and its portrayals of the ideal body are very confusing and can be overwhelming and detrimental…FOR YOUNG WOMEN. But you’re fucking adults and, guess what, if this bothers you so much, the ad isn’t for you. It’s for people who are taking pictures of themselves, who are doing things, who want to appear hot as hell in their Instagram pics or Snapchats or whatever limey bullshit apps they have across the pond. If I see an ad for people learning English or Dr. Zizmor talking to the poor pock marked souls on the subways of NYC, I just ignore it. I’m not the demographic. That’s what you angry pigs should do with these ads. But defacing them because they hurt your feelings? It’s just such bullshit. That’s what ads do. They make you want more, they make you buy things, they feed the innate desire to have everything…Axe and Miller Lite have told me smelly body spray and cologne will get me laid for years, I don’t suddenly have a complex over my non-funky scent or lack of cheap beer consumption. Is it the advertiser’s fault? No. Is it yours for not being able to differentiate reality from an advertisement’s platonic ideal? Definitely. But you’re supposed to just be cool with that and shut the fuck up, not tag things like we’re fighting the man on Beat Street, you slobs.

Also there’s a 99% chance these weight loss drugs will not work at all or speed women’s hearts up and kill them so let’s not be confused here, I don’t support these ads in general. But if people dumb and vain enough are going to believe them enough to make them a profitable business, that’s their place to decide, not some chick whose idea of self-improvement is a Lifetime special and a vat of vanilla fudge.

(h/t Pulptastic)