McDonald's Goddess

Quote: Ayecarumba

This is not new to America:.

Certainly people have used good looking women to sell things since the dawn of money. But the Carl's JR ads are simply acknowledging that their core clients are young men. They are paid professionals. The Hooters girls expect to be well tipped. Most mainstream American businesses are very wary of anything that smacks of sexualizing underage girls.

This advertisement in the UK was defended by the manufacturer because the model was age 20, and their argument was that she was not doing anything overtly sexual. The UK advertising regulator banned the ad anyway, saying that the model appeared to be younger than 16.


The same company had this ad banned in the UK despite showing a lot less skin. The regulatory agency made the argument that the lack of a smile had sexual overtones.

Quote: Pacomartin

The regulatory agency made the argument that the lack of a smile had sexual overtones.

Thank god everyone has a .gov. Where else could you find such nuggets of insanity to marvel in?

Re: the use of "goddess" - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means ;)

Quote: Face

Re: the use of "goddess"

It was the word used by the original photographer.



Buttercup: You mock my pain.
Man in Black: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

So you're saying Asian men like their women
to look like they're in grade school. That's
fairly disgusting.

Quote: Evenbob

So you're saying Asian men like their women
to look like they're in grade school. That's
fairly disgusting.

Yep. But America needs to check the log in its own eye first:

After this video came out, America made Miss Spears a superstar.

Somebody thinks little kids should have beauty pageants here in the good ole USA. Remember Jon Bonet Ramsey.

Quote: Evenbob

So you're saying Asian men like their women to look like they're in grade school. That's fairly disgusting.

Anyone can find examples in all developed countries of the Lolita look or fetishization of childlike imagery. I am saying it is more critically viewed in European and Northern American culture, and women are much less likely to cater to that image.

This Disney singer is about 22, and while she is trying to look sexy in school girl costume, she is clearly an adult woman. She is not made up to look like she is under 16.



The Lolita look is far more embraced by women from Japan and Taiwan.


But across the board, the Japanese Kawaii or "Culture of Cuteness" is a trillion dollar business in Japan.

Quote: Pacomartin

But across the board, the Japanese Kawaii or "Culture of Cuteness" is a trillion dollar business in Japan.

I have no use for it. Being turned on
by a 12 year old has no appeal for
me. It's pedophile nonsense, it
makes their culture look weak and
sissy like. Daddy is a real man at
work, but is in JR High in the bedroom?

Quote: petroglyph

Somebody thinks little kids should have beauty pageants here in the good ole USA. Remember Jon Bonet Ramsey.

Yes, I do.
She kept a gerbil, had a dog, did finger painting, learned arithmetic, greeted the school bus driver as she boarded.

One day her mother, a former Miss West Virginia, received an invitation to a Miss America reunion dinner. As many other former contestants did and as the invitation encouraged, she brought her daughter along. Right from the start, JonBenet loved the pageant world. Her parents, being somewhat wealthy and indulgent, were able to accommodate her interest, just as some parents can afford horse riding lessons or piano lessons.

Her parents did not use whips or cattle prods to encourage her singing and dancing. You can force a little girl to wash the dishes perhaps but you can't force her to practice singing. As a matter of fact, JonBenet herself, via the good graces (and credit card) of AuntPam, selected and obtained the music and lyrics to "Cowboy's Sweetheart" as a surprise for her parents. Her parents did not select the song or coach her dancing.

In short, she was a normal little girl and the media has always had available to them dozens of photos of her dressed as a normal little girl rather than a pageant contestant. It was the media that chose to not run the normal-girl photos and to slow down the speed of the video of her dancing. The pageants were a small but significant part of her life and she should be remembered as a normal little girl who just happened to have an interest in beauty pageants, not a fixation on them. Most of the pageants were small affairs with attendees who were mainly family and friends of other contestants.

There has never been any showing that her prolonged torture and murder were in any way related to her pageant activities and there has been no indication that the intruder who killed her had any knowledge of her pageant activities.

Quote: Evenbob

I have no use for it.

Kawaii is mostly about women and girls, and rarely men.



Japanese also love cowboys and guns. They pour into Calgary on nonstops from Tokyo to go to rodeos, and in Guam where gun tourism is huge. There is like 10 flights every day from Japan to Guam. Most Japanese have never touched a gun at home.