The 2014 Victoria's Secret Swim Catalog: A Mom's Buying Guide

[Coyotl]

O.K., a woman weighs in on women's swimwear. This is a refreshing read on the topic after all the stuff we've been subjected to.

The 2014 VS Swim Catalog: A Mom's Buying Guide
http://mandyotis.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-2014-vs-swim-catalog-moms-buying.html

Get ready all you moms out there. The Victoria’s Secret 2014 Swim Catalog has arrived. In February. I’m sure that whoever was having a good day, is now having a bad day. And whoever was already having a bad day has killed a bottle of wine and a sleeve of thin mints. Yes, Girl Scout cookies and the VS swim catalog arrive in the same month. Or at least they did this year. It’s a conspiracy between peppy little Girl Scouts and ravenously hungry super models. Their goal: world domination. I guess.

For starters, this is the shit I pulled out of the mailbox. Hello ass cheeks. Why yes, I had a good day at work thankyouverymuch. I start looking through this magazine and I just keep wondering why I get this in the mail. I can’t wear this shit. I don’t even know anyone who can wear this shit…or WOULD wear this shit even if they had an ass like that. If you are showing your ass crack at the beach .............

[Archae]

1. The one who needs the sand rinsed off...

Also needs to eat something!

She looks like an inmate at Auschwitz!

[msongs]

2. oh goody more objectifications of women nt

[PasadenaTrudy]

3. Funny!

The xylophone on the chest, lol!

[MadrasT]

4. That was great.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. now, that was some funny, honest shit right there! Moving On! Yep.

Hope you found your swimsuit for this summer. Glad I could help. If I ruined your day, look at this way. At least YOU get to eat. These girls are starving for the betterment of humanity and the empowerment of women everywhere. Snort.

<insert pizza for dinner here>

<insert third glass of wine here>

Opening trash, putting this stupid catalog in there with the rest of the rotten shit, and moving on.

[MineralMan]

6. That was a funny blog.

Apparently the current standard of beauty for swimwear is a 14-16 year old schoolgirl. Even in my high school days in the early 60s, there were lots of skinny girls in my high school. I guess it comes from the fast growth rates of puberty, but I remember lots of slim girls in that age group. I was very skinny, myself. A 6'2" guy with a 28 inch waist. A few years later, I had filled out and didn't look like I'd blow away in a light breeze.

The same thing happened to the skinny girls I knew in high school. The effect was beneficial to their appearance, in my opinion. Still, swimsuit ads still seem to focus on women who look like adolescent girls. That's not surprising, I guess. But, it certainly makes expectations unrealistic and sets a standard that grown-up people can't usually meet. That's a bad thing, in my opinion.

Teenage girls aren't the ideal, I think. They are transitional. I can't see them as a good standard for the appearance of women. Such a standard is unattainable and not even desirable.

[Coyotl]

8. Good points.

[deutsey]

7. "channeling your great grandmother’s swim diaper"