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Members Mail Answered

Date:      08/20/2005
From:    
Nike Ad in Jane Magazine, Sept. 05, pp. 40-41
Subject: My Butt is Big



 MY BUTT IS BIG

 AND ROUND LIKE THE LETTER C

 AND TEN THOUSAND LUNGES

     HAVE MADE IT ROUNDER

                BUT NOT SMALLER

                     AND THAT'S JUST FINE.

                            IT'S A SPACE HEATER

                               FOR MY SIDE OF THE BED

                                    IT'S MY AMBASSADOR

                                    TO THOSE WHO WALK BEHIND ME

                                   IT'S A BORDER COLLIE

                               THAT HERDS SKINNY WOMEN

                           AWAY FROM THE BEST DEALS

                      AT CLOTHING SALES.

                MY BUTT IS BIG

             AND THAT'S JUST FINE

       AND THOSE WHO MIGHT SCORN IT

       ARE INVITED TO KISS IT.

                                   JUST DO IT.

               NIKEWOMEN.COM

 

American Road Cycling would have preferred merely posting a link to this wonderful Nike ad found in Sept. 05 issue of Jane Magazine, but the ad itself was not repeated online verbatim, and the great butt photo which accompanied the above text in the magazine is nowhere to be found on the web site. Even though navigating a little deeper into the site found related material, the woman proved to have a big belly as well as a big butt. Not surprising.

American Road Cycling chooses not to support the current trend widespread in advertising which purports to accept larger body parts, but which in fact only acquiesces to the obesity epidemic in the United States and panders to the wishful thinking of those most afflicted.

Get this straight, fat ain't funny. All these new generation ads for the larger have been carefully constructed and orchestrated to make you think your fat ass is acceptable, but it ain't.

On the other hand, here's the big eye opener showing just how much editing is being done to the images you have probably come to believe are photos of real humans. Go to the web site of:

Glenn Feron*

Click on the thumbnail photos, then roll your cursor over the full size images to see the original photos that the finished versions were painted from.

While Madison Avenue may ultimately make a few bucks off the bandwagon effect of wishful thinking people who maintain a lackluster lifestyle, the truth of the matter is that FAT is never going to be attractive. A few million years of evolution forbids it.

Obviously ten thousand lunges are not nearly enough, especially if done while snacking on...well, anything bought in a restaurant.

Somewhere between obesity and anorexia is health. Get on your bike and go find it.


* The Glenn Feron site found thanks to Zac Doob who provided a link at PHOTOFLAVOR.COM.
 


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