Men Avoided Me: I Was Too Fat

it's unfortunate that the ads we see today aren't much different. just replace marmola with ephedra or hoodia or bitter orange extract.

Men avoided me : I was too dead...

Dude, now there's some fine print in layman's terms!

The 1930s is a bit late for deadly patent medicine, isn't it?

She looks on the heavy side, but I don't think that today she'd suffer men "looking (her) way - and shrugging their shoulders".

its so strange, creepy and sad that the "fat picture" of the woman in the add is what most people look like today *sigh

Quito said:
The 1930s is a bit late for deadly patent medicine, isn't it? [...]

shrinking said:
its so strange, creepy and sad that the "fat picture" of the woman in the add is what most people look like today *sigh[...]

Even without the added weight they did everything in the photo to make the women look unattractive.

I also think that is a male in that dress. That figure looks far more masculine for a female body.

Paul Young said:
I also think that is a male in that dress[...]

Ha ha! Don't! If that's a man, those are a couple of mighty man boobs he's got there! :-)

Maybe the guys are just thinking... "Man, that dancing is embarrassing." :-) or maybe "Hey, isn't that Geoff from the golf club."

Did you notice how overjoyed the lucky slim woman is in the background? The man's obviously just proposed or something.

Disturbing but clever advertising. How to tap deeply into a woman's insecurities in one easy lesson.

~Mike

shrinking said:
its so strange, creepy and sad that the "fat picture" of the woman in the add is what most people look like today *sigh[...]

Now isn't that the truth! She would be wearing daisy dukes with "Hott" embroidered on her tattooed butt, cropped T, and belly button ring. And she would be the hottest girl in the school... :(

Paul Young said:
Even without the added weight they did everything in the photo to make the women look unattractive.[...]

Manipulative advertising, indeed. Unhappy expression, bad posture, ill-fitting dress, and dude looks like a lady. No wonder the other men avoided "her."

Same with today's before and after shots. Before pics make people look all lumpen. In after shots, they have big, happy "Yippe, I'm thiiiiin!" grins because advertisers know we repond better to happier to positive expressions.

wizard said:
Same with today's before and after shots. Before pics make people look all lumpen. In after shots, they have big, happy "Yippe, I'm thiiiiin!" grins because advertisers know we repond better to happier to positive expressions[...]

They also usually have the person in the "before" pic holding a kid and wearing horrible glasses. The after pic always shows them wearing nice clothes and they have their hair done up and are wearing a lot of makeup. Of course they look thinner. This lady in the advertisement DOES look kind of like a guy, but then again, I see a lot of women walking around WalMart that I mistake for men...most of them are just plain fat though.

Passion for Health said:
Ha ha! Don't! If that's a man, those are a couple of mighty man boobs he's got there! :-)[...]

It's definitely a guy. Look at the forearms. Dead give away. Breast are also fake because they are not anywhere in the vicinity of where they should be.

It's a guy. No doubt. Advertising wasn't under lock with the FCC like it is today.

Hey! Where are all those people who were giving me a hard time about Faith Hill and her photo altering? That 'model' could been Faith, or Tim McGraw, for that matter :-)

Heather said:
Men avoided me : I was too dead...[...]

LOL