If I could only look as well proportioned as Maxine, I'd be a very happy fat lady. It's a beautiful morph and a gorgeous render as I stated. Some people-- not just randy teenagers, either-- seem to want to be entertained in the galleries. There is something about being face to face with a lot of flesh that scares even sophisticated critics. There was a realist painter in the last decade who got incredible flak over his choice of models. One was seriously more clinically obese than Maxine. Critics found it unartistic-- it got in the way of the art. These were serious critics. I have to assume that there is not just a licence to dislike fat in the society but an active fear of it. You see similar comments on renders of the Golden Girls and other older women who are not "funny." Again it feels like fear. As if we were in ghetto of perfectly shaped women and men who could not grow old-- well, some of the men could-- and could not die, except in acceptably fantastic combat or gothic situations. And then someone pulls back the curtain and shows something closer to real. And it's scary. It's not titillating, it's not entertaining, and people lash out. If this picture bothered your critic, he'd probably never recover from Rembrandt's portraits of his wife. Emily