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Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on The Guardian: Facebook has apologized for banning a photo of a plus-sized model and telling the feminist group that posted the image that it depicts "body parts in an undesirable manner". Cherchez la Femme, an Australian group that hosts popular culture talkshows with "an unapologetically feminist angle", said Facebook rejected an advert featuring Tess Holliday, a plus-sized model wearing a bikini, telling the group it violated the company's "ad guidelines". After the group appealed against the rejection, Facebook's ad team initially defended the decision, writing that the photo failed to comply with the social networking site's "health and fitness policy". "Ads may not depict a state of health or body weight as being perfect or extremely undesirable," Facebook wrote. "Ads like these are not allowed since they make viewers feel bad about themselves. Instead, we recommend using an image of a relevant activity, such as running or riding a bike." In a statement on Monday, Facebook apologized for its original stance and said it had determined that the photo does comply with its guidelines.Facebook said that its team scans millions of ad images every week, and sometimes understandably misses out on a few.
...their busy schedule of banning conservatives for daring to say that they ban conservatives to determine what an appropriate bikini body is...
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I'm really torn up about this one. A detestable group of twats invades the privacy of billions and we should clearly hate them, but then Facebook does something decent like this.
Luckily it turned out to be a mistake so we can safely hate FB again.
The more cush'n, the better the push'n.
I doubt it was a simple mistake. More likely someone from the crowd of "OMG HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOURSELF LIKE THAT WHEN YOU ARE THAT WEIGHT" was the one who made the decision to block it. For some reason there's a huge number of people who absolutely hate on people who are fat.
Not everyone has the ability to simply "work out and eat less" to lose weight. Sometimes there's medical or genetic reasons why it's difficult to go down in weight.
People should be able to feel good about themselves, not live in mental torture and anguish from the crazy people who spew hatred about some specific physical aspect of their body.
And if it's an actual unhealthy lifestyle decision as it sometimes is, then they are the ones who will live with the consequences of it, just like any other lifestyle decision that can negatively affect health. It's not YOUR job to point it out, believe me it's been pointed out a million times to each and everyone of them.
Want to see what I'm talking about? Check out her public facebook account:
https://www.facebook.com/TessHollidayOfficial/
Or twitter:
https://twitter.com/tess_holliday?lang=en
Tons of comments spewing the nastiest vile things.
An advertisement is supposed to be appealing to people.
The practical reality is, that the vast majority of people find thin/trim girls attactive, and fat/chubby girls unattractive.
And this one is not just a little chubby, but WAY too chubby. She is absolutely disgusting.
No amount of politically-correct-speak is going to change this simple basic fact.
Complaining about "discrimination" is ridiculous.
An advertisement for a japanese restaurant is going to use japanese people, not black or caucasian...
An advertisement for Nike or other sports shoes is going to use a strong muscular man, not a skinny nerd..
An advertisement for women's clothes is going to use a thin/trim girl, not a fat pig...
It's just common sense.
From his 'Live in New York' show:
"Be as fat as you want... just don't come on the plane with me."
Along with his sound advice for anyone looking to lose weight:
"Don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farm yard."
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
This doesn't matter to me as a nerd.
99% of us don't care
Shame on FB for pushing conservative body image standards.
They also recently rejected a sponsored post by a powerlifter because it contained a tape measure as it might "invoke a negative reaction from viewers". http://imgur.com/APsVNp7
I don't care whether it is in any compliance of any guidelines - an overweight woman wearing a bikini is repulsive, no matter what "plus size" spin the "unapologetically feminist" organization puts on it.
Anybody can dispute otherwise, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So sue me.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
Yes, but the dating site ads that people are inundated with on the site with breasts photoshopped up to about 200% actual size with gravity defying physics are perfectly OK
If Facebook wasn't biased, WHY ARE THEY MAKING CHANGES?!?!
Facebook said it had changed some of the procedures for its "Trending Topics" section after a news report alleging it suppressed conservative news prompted a Congressional demand for more transparency.
The company said an internal probe showed no evidence of political bias in the selection of news stories for Trending Topics, a feature that is separate from the main "news feed" where most Facebook users get their news.
Yeah, right. Their probe "showed no evidence of political bias. They why this:
"Our investigation could not fully exclude the possibility of isolated improper actions or unintentional bias in the implementation of our guidelines or policies," Colin Stretch, Facebook's General Counsel, wrote...
Yeah, it was all "isolated" and "unintentional".
BULLSHIT.
Because if the bias were "isolated" and "unintentional", Facebook wouldn't be changing the way they process trending topics.
It's a bit like a reverse Alien vs. Predator.
Whoever loses
We win
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Facebook is like a convenience store. You go there for specific and fairly basic reasons: share photos with families and friends, let them know what's going on in your life, message each other and arrange get togethers...probably 90% of what a person does on Facebook.
But, like a convenience store, the places is polluted with hundreds of items you have no interest in and would never buy or use. And if you did actually want any of it, you sure as hell wouldn't get it from a convenience store....or Facebook.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Many of the +sized model are really ++++++++++++++++sized. :D
They managed to fuck up the pirelli calendar with that.
I'll bet that nobody would kick up much of a fuss if they decided to ban a photo of an anorexic model. Tess Holiday, being morbidly obese, obviously suffers from disordered eating due to a food addiction, yet is paraded around as some kind of paragon of moral virtue, while pictures of women with anorexia would be censored for being harmful to little girls. But seriously, do you think that presenting a morbidly obese woman as a socially acceptable norm sends girls a message about body image that is any less harmful?
-- Knowledge shared is power lost. -- Aleister Crowley
Her response to this? Blame everyone but herself in the press like here in People magazine, the comments sections are particularly informative about the fact that not everything has been addressed. Any group associated with this person is enabling a scam artist.
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You sound jealous. Is it because we "degenerates" have more fun than you?
Riiiight... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm okay with this ad. I'm okay with Facebook reversing its stance. But I'm worried about this: "Ads may not depict a state of health or body weight as being perfect or extremely undesirable"
What are they saying here, that they wouldn't allow an ad with a fit person wearing the same bikini? Isn't this the pendulum swinging too far to the left, and into thin-shaming territory? One can be proud to be fat (or gay, or a minority, or vegan, or gender fluid, or what have you), but not for making the choice to work out hard and be fit?
I'm not even fit, and this offends me. Harrison Bergeron is no longer fiction.
Facebook is not the government. It does not have a legally binding equal opportunities initiative.
This commercial parasite is now so big and embedded into so many peoples' everyday activity that they must now make government level decisions.
In the nation of Facebook you're too fucking fat. Cue sensationalist headline, public outrage and the obvious back-draft of various brain farts.
Fuck Facebook. Fuck fat asses showing their bodies like it's natural to have 40% body -what have they been smoking? Is this some feminist agenda for women to not only show hairy armpits but also obese bodies? -do they really wanna ruin my fake FB account voyeurism? I sometimes do that while eating FFS.
HOWEVER, Facebook, IMNSHO are not right to disallow people from posting pictures of themselves that are within the guidelines. You know, the made-up rules #justbecause that they themselves created. Solution? we need someone at FB please start initiate some auto tagging. Tags such as "dangerously anorexic", "morbidly obese", "overflowing with fat" etc spring to mine. Then we can all finally set filters to "Hot BBW" and forget less stigmatised female forms.
It's not lame it's awesome! Imagine the additional revenue streams! -clothes for about-to-die lard asses and the latest super powerful laxatives for bulimic
I just created FB a new revenue stream. Why do I bother to post my genius on Slashdot instead of cashing in on the multitude of internet losers?? -that's right folks because SHARING IS CARING :-)
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It's not a bikini when it's covered with two sails, it's a sloop.
Beauty may lie in the beholder's eye,
but one thing's objectively true:
an overweight gal in a swimsuit will never
be *half* as repulsive as you.
And nowhere near as repulsive as the coward hiding behind the AC.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
... Facebook data mining software refuses to collect her biometrics.
Basically they have just admitted their policy is meaningless. They will bend and twist the language as needed when political pressure is applied.
They are essentially giving up the curating and running of their own site, its mob rules now.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
After they banned my legitimate business page after my years of effort building it, I don't use the site anymore.
Apparently she's a pretty shitty person all around: link
This woman is absolutely disgusting, and I don't see how anybody in their right mind could possibly find her attractive.
I just want to be clear about what is being discussed here:
1) The feminist group wants to show photos of half-naked obese women because it helps to "destroy" the concept of the perfect body?
(Already, I'm completely lost. How does this work exactly? Men see a fat woman in a bikini, and start to get turned on -- thereby changing the standards of beauty? Would that work with other images too?)
2) The feminist group wants men to stop "objectifying women" physically, so they are using a photograph of a fat woman in a bikini to help us stop thinking about women ... in terms of their physical bodies.
(Swoooooooosh!...that was some kind of feminist logic doing a low-altitude fly-by somewhere near my head)
Why is this 'news for nerds' ? It's SJW nonsense. Keep it on Tumblr please.
"Instead, we recommend using an image of a relevant activity, such as running or riding a bike"
The fat fuck probably can't do either.
fatt girls r nown as 'big beautiful women' 4 a resun, tehy at lest have big tits. fatt guys r nown as 'fat fucks' 4 a reason, tehy have small dicks and if tehy where a fat fuck at puberty then tehy will always have small dicks throughout life. girls hate small dicks cuz small dick mean beta or omega fuck, or girly boy. girls luv big cocks cuz big cocks mean strng, alpha male, or a man. u must be a fat fuck w/ a small dick, no job so u must b n omega loser fuck, teh most repulsive of all.
Would you want to see advertisements that included bikini girls with hairy moles, cleft palates, and lobster claw hands? How about one that's so fat she's starting to become one with the fabric of the sofa she's lived on for the past 3 years. Why not? You can be a quarter-tonner and still be healthy, all women are beautiful, right? At what point does Facebook get to state that they are not obligated to accept every ad, and some of these images are driving off more people than they're bringing in? They are a business, after all. This isn't fat shaming, or whatever the fuck guilt-laden term you want to call it, these are images people find to be unappealing and generally don't want to see. I'd rather watch that Sarah McLachlan commercial with the dogs than look at this woman in a bikini. I'm fine with her believing that she looks good, but a lot of us don't agree and don't want to see it. Nobody would want to see my hairy ass walking around in a bikini either, and I totally respect their wishes.
You have enough muscle from having to move all that fat around every day. It's why fat people usually have monster calves.
If you were comfortable, you wouldn't feel the need to post about your diet or body type multiple times.
So it's ok for anyone to ban/censor everything that is not ok? Really?
If she can't toss me over her shoulder and carry me away she's not big enough.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It's a free ride when you've already paid
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Facebook invented lawyer speak for the old No Fat Chicks tshirt
They should be directing her to appropriate medical attention, because she's morbidly obese and in dire need of intervention.
Not to mince words, yes, the image is rather undesirable.
It was basically encouraging obesity. Sure you can be happy while being really fat, but that's still not healthy. That kind of advertising shouldn't be allowed. I get "plus size", that's fine, but the woman in that picture was way past "plus size" and was into "plus plus plus plus size" territory, most likely weighting in the 400lb or above. This is unhealthy and sends the wrong message to the youth saying that "it's ok to be really fat if you're happy with it". But really, are they really happy? Wouldn't they be happier if they could have a ton more choice in terms of clothing, fit in a single seat instead of taking 2 while on a airplane, be able to actually move around without feeling exhausted after 5 minutes of walking... Not to mention all the health issues that come up with being fat.
Post title says it all.
And so is political correctness.
So, does this mean that Facebook will now allow posting pictures of other body types, presumably "sexy" (for various values of 'sexy') models etc.? Given the summary & response from FB I'm given to believe the point is that they don't want you posting pictures of 'O, all those icky, toned/sexy bodies out there as they promote a bad body image' (I don't really know because I don't use FB all that much)...so if they don't allow those but have now caved to a feminist group promoting 'plus size' (read 'overweight') models than it is blatant discrimination to not allow posting bikini clad models...of course it won't surprise me in the least if/when they demonstrate a double-standard here.
In this thread: Slashdot's equivalent of FatPeopleHate get to puke their bile all over the site.
Yet another fucking flamebait article. We really need the ability to mod whole articles, not just comments.
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That website ain't the only thing that lady's too fat for...
Social networking and interacting over the internet with people was the dumbest move humanity did. It was different 20 years ago.
hahaha big, beautiful women get love too <3 True story: I used to work with the woman who fought her case to the Supreme Court of California and won, making it illegal in California to discriminate against someone based upon their weight when their obesity problem is due to an underlying medical problem for employment purposes (http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1429&context=californialawreview). I think it's incredibly unfair to simply write off their weight problem as a lack of work ethic or hedonistic desire for food regardless of its health impact (which, actually, aren't that bad https://www.nih.gov/news-event... in the grand scheme of things -- smokers, alcoholics, drug abusers, etc I'm sure are far worse off). https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I didn't realize News for Nerds meant posting tabloids that happen to involve websites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBd9JcpoNi4
Crushing a bike, maybe.
first time I ve seen that... hopefully never to see that naked.. they should sell her off to Japanese and save couple of whales in the process.
Seriously, fat ( morbidly fat in her case ) is just sick and nobody should be made feeling good about that.
Funny how the big strong "alpha" types tend to be on the bottom of the totem pole in business and society. You say "yes sir" to your "omega" boss when he commands you to wash his car.
Forget beauty, whatever you or the next person thinks it is. Being that obese means that her children, if she has any, will be left without a mother rather early.
It's like smoking, or free-solo climbing. Sure, you can do it, it's a free country. But if you have people that love you and don't want you to die young, it's really not OK.
If they're banning conservatives for saying they ban conservatives, then they can't have been banned, could they? Therefore it's not "Conservatives are banned" at all. It's that some people were banned for what they said, and other conservatives complained about it and were banned for being whinging little bitches.
but for most everyone else, it's nothing more than laziness, poor diet, and ignorance.
If a person is large due to conditions beyond their control is one thing, but to accept as "normal" gross obesity is pushing it a bit too far.
It would also help if the food industry didn't stuff every fucking item in the market full of high fructose corn syrup or some artificial sweetner crap.
FB is rapidly becoming the bad guys from the novel 1984.
Morbid Obesity should not be depicted as an acceptable condition any more than Anorexia.
-Eric
Facebook said that its team scans millions of ad images every week, and sometimes understandably misses out on a few.
That response is BS, because facebook took the time to clarify their stance. They didn't miss anything, they just got it wrong.
Facebook: It's not a huge issue here, so just admit your prejudice.
Showing different body types baring skin doesn't mean that the issue is attraction.
The issue is that fat women (and men!) get a lot of shit that they don't deserve from other people imposing their "concern" on them.
The issue might be about FEELING attractive because as human beings that's important.
The issue is that it's their body and they should be allowed to dress as they see fit. If you think it's obscene, that's your issue. You don't have to like it, but you also don't have any right to harass them over it.