Gongyla opened this issue on May 06, 2007 · 88 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 08 May 2007 at 11:53 AM
Quote - As any doctor or artist with a basic knowledge of anatomy can easily tell you.
Because people do NOT come in "all shapes and sizes".
If that's true, then I'd better go get my 20:15 vision checked. Because I must be seeing things.
The proporions of the perfectly real people in the TV series Little People, Big World are proportioned nothing like the body types of the perfectly real people who are typically found on fashion-show runways. And yet BOTH body types are "real". And the individuals involved are all human. Not from different species.
Yes: people most definitely do come in all shapes and sizes. It's even possible to find a tall, slender woman with a large chest, à la V4. Admittedly: it's rare for such proportions to be natural -- but it does happen.
The very rarity of a thing is what tends to make it stand out. And it's a part of what makes it attractive to so many. But rarity doesn't make something unreal. Just rare.
As for the marketing types knowing what sells in terms of what you are calling "a lie" -- those marketing types are the ones who are making the money. So, I suppose that it's at least possible.......maybe........that those marketing types actually know their business.
However: it's true that there is one thing which reality stubbornly refuses to conform to: and that's theoretical ideology.
V4 is a 3D mesh. Not an evil icon which needs to be knocked down by self-appointed purists who are out to lecture the rest of us on the errors of our ways -- with much scowling and waggling of fingers. It's an experience similar to being lectured on the true meaning of life by a jumped-up freshman.