What do these photos say to you? What are they saying, what are they about, what are these people about? Do you like them? Why or why not?
Young, sexy people. Probably selling something.
They are beautiful people in the wrong context, an advertisement.
photos don’t talk
-Imp
they say “I was cut out of a fashion magazine.”
PG,
Interesting ploy, but I think you went too far with this one. It sounds too much like a psychologist’s test. Always ask or say something that sounds a little bit personal so the reader is responding to you, and not random content.
I’d give this one a C- 
They depict the fact that I am most certainly not one of the beautiful people, which will inherently stop me from procurring a fabulously beautiful mate and having beautiful offspring.
Oh damn it!!! It’s true, it’s all true.
crinkle crinkle (places paper bag over head, hides in corner from the light)
“Inbreeding among the Hitler Jugend.”
No, I don’t like them. The guys either seem stupid or immature. The girls, except for perhaps one, are unattractive. There is a general mindlessness throughout those pictures, excluding, perhaps, that girl in the fourth picture (which is made “up” for by the totally dimwitted look on the guy’s face).
They’re all models, of course, i.e., all outside and no inside.
And you blame them, Saully?
They’re teenagers, not Nietzschean scholars.
You sad man. How will you lead the youth into the overman, Sauwelios?
I believe it was the republic that stated that adolecents should begin their education at the latter teenage years, spending their early years developing the body through athletics and such. The youth you condemn there are beginning their educational period and you assume they know anything at all!
Nonsense.
Are you serious? Does it make you feel bad about yourself? Do you think it promotes superciality or perverse materialism?
So…you think it is simply a celebration of beautiful youth?
Are you saying it suggests some sort of narrow minded supremicism? And you think they are promoting being shallow as well?
Those photos remind me of a copy of a copy of a copy.
Not for everyone, P-to-the-G. What about those young people who do not have the opportunity to be that beautiful and wear those fashions? Hmm? Ever thought of that?
The context, miss, is terrible. It is in no way an altruistic celebration of peoples because it divides people and determines the attitudes and self-portrayals of “class”; it creates discursive prejudices and biases in the attitudes of specific classes in relation to their opportunity to achieve the ideal which the commercial sublimates through semiotics.
Ugly childern everywhere who shop at Wal-mart are suffering right now because they can’t be like those beautiful people in the advertisement. This will not do, PG.
Either get rid of the ugly people or the advertisement. I support a program of eugenics and the refinement of beautiful people.
As a beautiful person I can say that you enjoy myself. Imperatively speaking, I should then want everyone to be beautiful, or at least be able to enjoy myself as you do, PG.
It says “buy me”. I hold stock shares with Abercrombie & Fitch co. and I’m found at International Plaza and Bay Street sided by Nordstrom and Ann Taylor for the millionaires who make up 1.2% of your town.
You shop at Hottopic and if you’re lucky you get a glimpse at the glamour walking through the doors passing the Gucci bag clutching capitalist corporate consumers making their way through the crowd on a mission: getting their cash to the latest fashions and swanky social musts.
That was quite good, SS.
You’re getting good at quick polemic quips and playing the cynic. The rhetorical style is one of the most useful forms of writing propaganda; it says many things in little time and captures the reader into an opinion. They share the understanding of the stereotypical truths that originate here and suddenly they “picture what you describe” without being skeptical of it…it “happens to fast” for discourse, if you will. No time to protest the stereotypes when they are so well crafted and sudden.
No, I don’t; I just express my distaste at them.
“Developing the body”… You can’t tell me these people practice athletics in order to increase their physical strength, and that their “beauty” is a consequence of such an increase. Such people “work out” in order to improve or maintain their looks, not in order to improve or maintain their strength.
Just look at those pictures: all fair-haired white people. This does not “suggest” supremacism; it confirms that Caucasians are more attractive (even to non-Caucasians: just check out some Japanese anime: white skin, big eyes, etc.; also, Madonna sells more records when she is blond).
Yes, I do. It is unfashionable to be intellectual, because the masses are in charge (due to universal suffrage), and the masses are mediocre - in regard to intellect, too.
What I don’t get is, why are attractive models automatically intellectually judged? What does physical attractiveness take away from intellect? What does this concur? Intellect is compensation for attraction? Like, as if.
Saully, you’re naturally drawn to your unique racial beauty, but that doesn’t make you da 1337 sauce of races. It makes you partially narcissistic and a racial supremacist.
There is scientific evidence that health is the underlying factor of attraction. There are beautiful models and singers of all ethnic origins. Beyoncé and Tyra Banks to name a few of the most famous African American icons.
LMMFAO.
No, I’m not serious. I buy into materialistic bullshit like that, at the same rate that I buy into politics.
As for my earlier statement being part of the mentality of the herd, I’d take wagers that sort of mentality is guiding consumerism in this country.
You have to remember that America is the single most materialistically driven empire on the planet … further testament to the stupidity of the mindless herd that this society will always be.