Screw this size zero culture!

I agree with your message! What the media does to young girls and their self image is horrible and I’m guy and think that. I wanna see a cool shot of a girl measuring her waist and cutting it with scissors, only shot with your tragemarked intensity.

Lovely photo! Rock on with your bad self, Lolli – i think we should create a group here dedicated to this concept…we could start with a couple of our images and go from there…
xoxo

Indeed! Brilliant work! And I couldn’t agree more! :~)

I am so with you on this Lolli

women are meant to be women not stick insects

Love ‘N’ Laughter Kriss

Well, i do have to say that some of us are naturally “stick insects”, and that’s totally fine. It’s natural, it’s metabolism. I’ve had other women say nasty things about my body being “anorexic”, which i’m not. I think women (and men) need to accept their bodies as they are, skinny or zaftig.

Yes, indeed. Here’s another we can add to our new group :).
I’ll put in the request today…
Viva La Revolucion!

I love this picture rather a lot, as I have said =)
V. provocative too – YEAH!
Also, nicely said Selkie xx

I think you two are on to a winner! Its not just young girls either. Men and women are pressured into ‘building’ up their self image to adeer to what the media enforce as a ‘stereotypical’ way of life. People should be happy with the way they are; big, skinny, built or whatever…

That said – Great image!!! Let me know what happens with this group…

Do you know how many calories there are in a tape measure?...Spit that out now!

Love the idea behind this, and the photo too! Good work. Grain rules!

Love the message you are sending here..so true..the things society does to us all..love this image..the grainy effect speaks volumes here!!

Love it

Congratulations!

• Absolutely fabulous – shot and message !

Congratulations on your feature!!

I’ll let people know who are interested if the group gets approved….no word yet!

Lovely image Lolli. Wonderful concept. :) xox.

Thank for this! I hate the ‘perfect little fairy princesses’ women are expected to be…which is far from natural or healthy.

So so awesome…Great image and great message! (of course there are just really annoying people like loz who eat and do whatever they want and achieve teeniness

love love love it!!!

I CAN see the serious side, obviously it’s a major issue, but I’m just somewhat incapable of not joking about stuff…:(

implications aside, I love the look in your eyes

well, you certainly have a lot of comments< i just read them all!
fantastic effort here, this culture is nuts! its my formal/prom next week and yesterday i was eating a bagel. one of the ‘popular’ (barbie) girls said to my friend next to me said, and i quote “OMG, shes eating carbs!” i physically had to walk away, i was laughing so hard.
bagels are so tasty, especially that one.
Anyway (and this is a really long comment) i have a photo that would be great in your group, its called materialism, its the way of the future… check it out! chookas child, kell bell.

This picture is brilliant, it says SO much. How the hell the world got to the state it’s in at the moment, I don’t know. People seem to have stopped caring about things worth caring about, and have become so materialistic. I really don’t see the beauty of this size zero culture. I dont understand how supposedly intelligent people have become so obsessed with themselves and their image. It’s as though we’re all turning into Dorian Grays, given all this dieting and make up, liposuction and plastic surgery. What do girls feel they have achieved when they’ve reached the weight of an undernourished eight year old? Perhaps the Auschwitz look was ahead of its time? That’s all that comes to my mind when I see these skeletal girls – concentration camps and the thought of not eating for days, being ravaged by disease, and overworked. Hardly attractive.
Anyway, I think I rambled a bit there…sorry…
My point is simply that this is an awesome shot. =]

Very nice!!!

For anybody interested, here is the link to the group the wonderful Selkie and myself have set up: Imperfectly

yeah u go girl everyone does not have to be a zero

Thank you =]
Your new group has inspired me…this is a work in progress, but it’s a start nonetheless!

_The executioner’s blade
Is hungry for blood,
Soon another body
Will be thrown into the mud.

The executioner’s blade
Chooses victims wisely,
If you’re not peroxide blonde,
With a two inch waist,
Then you’ll do quite nicely.

The executioner’s blade
Will cut you down to size._

And screw sodding text formatting! It never works when I want it to, ha

Ta muchly, I did write it =]

Fantastic idea! So true…

Fabulous image…great work…perfect statement of the current madness.
As Ellen Degeneres said once….“I don’t understand the sizes anymore. There’s a size zero, which I didn’t even know that they had. It must stand for: ‘Ooooooohhh my God, you’re thin.’

i like. a lot. :)

Congratulations! This work and a link to your gallery has been included in our Permanent Feature Showcase. Thank you for being such a valued member of Artrageous RB Artists Self Portrait Gallery

totally agree! great capture.

love the message :) and the image

Brilliant work, lolli!! Yeah!

Normally I suck at writing decent comments, but this deserves one.

First off, I’d like to say that this is an outstanding, brilliant idea and photo.
Technically, I LOVE the contrasts, grain (it looks more like film grain than noise, really), focus, composition and LIGHT… WOW!!!
That’s not actually what strikes me the most about it though, as much as it could’ve been. The striking bit is the message. As someone who has, and continues to struggle with this, this is amazing.
I hate how, well, every person found in the media is skinny, beautiful and succesful. So many, both girls and guys, have real problems with this. You start focusing on it, and suddenly it consumes you. Ugh!!!! I think part of the problem, however, is that for someone who hasn’t been through this themselves, it’s almost impossible to understand it completely.

I did a rather lengthy analysis on a similar (buit not nearly as good) shot for school last year, and I love how every bit of this supports the message.

Excellent work!!

This is so brilliant !!! XX
Becca

True, true!

Great work.

Great idea and execution. The artistry still shines past the imagery.

Beautiful self-portrait!

Brilliant! Love the concept…this should be on the inside of every school girls locker!! Bravo!