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Sunday, 16 August 2009 14:47 |
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Before/After: A pair of virtually identical pictures of a celebrity, usually (though not exclusively) female, purporting to show clear signs of weight gain or loss (depending on which particular eating disorder the DM implies this celeb is suffering from). In fact, any slight difference between the pictures is due entirely to clothing, lighting, camera angle etc. but that doesn't stop the DM accompanying the pictures with a lengthy article vilifying and humiliating the celeb for their unattractive appearance, lack of self-control etc. and offering an entirely speculative psychological analysis of the celeb explaining how their weight gain/loss is clearly due to their declining fame, broken relationships, poor lifestyle choices etc.
Quite unrelated to this, the DM likes to run tragic stories such as "Beautiful girl with everything to live for succumbs to anorexia." Such pieces often plead to know what kind of sick, image-obsessed society we have created that makes young women do this to themselves. Any ideas anyone? |
