Thread: Urgh! Some people!!!!

okay im not sure if this is a rational rant or not but i dont care coz it peeved me off...

I've just read a bulletin on myspace asking for help off of "D+" girls to do some promo work, by work i mean its probs unpaid. Anyways, were does this guy get off specifying that he want D+ girls??!!! Is it just me or is that really offencive, like if you aint got big tits you aint good/attractive enough!!! You wouldn't specify skinny girls only please - i mean its just not PC. No wonder so many women have body issues if thats the kind of crap thrown at us! URGH!

If you are rading this thinking poor girl must have hang ups about the was she looks - your wrong, i am and have pretty much always been happy with the way i look, it just upsets me when i see bs like this coz i know and have known many many women who are miserable because they think the way they look is somehow sub standard in they eyes of pig headed men who say/do crap like this.

Am I being irrational here or do you agree that its just not right?

huff freakin puff. :evil:

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Sadly there seems to be a perception these days that Bigger is better where the bust is concerned, personally I think that it's stupid, but given the way that advertising etc especially for mens products pushes bigger busts I can see how young women with smaller than average assets feel presured into getting ops to boost their size.

It's not just you ladies that feel the pressure, there's an awful lot of pressure on men to conform to a sterotypical image of good body and so on, probably the number of sporting "Celebrities" push this as much as their trophy Wags push implants, what the hell is wrong with being natural ?

I'm never going to be good looking and am very unlikely to ever be slim but that doesn't mean I'm not a good person, sadly in todays society an awful lot of people put image before anything else

Feel free to Rant away

i employ the person for who she is not by the size of her breasts at my shows god it gets me so mad some men are such arseholes

I agree that people should be picked for their skills not for the way they look. However we know in the entertainment industry looks are, sadly, sometimes more important.
I have been turned down for jobs that i have years of experience of for a size 10 girl with no experience at all because the casting director wanted someone slim and blonde. On reading the script i couldn't see what difference it would make at all.
It's unfair but this is one of the few industries where you can specify 5'9" blonde with 34ff boobs and who will wear dental floss.
I would rant away and secretly hope the person they choose 'ends up in Amsterdam where the donkey has a higher billing' - to roughly quite Ms Blaize' Tease.

To be fair to those people doing castings, there may on occasion be cases where a particular look is required, for instance it might be that a particularly tall or short person is needed to play against someone else, however specifying D+ Boobs seems to be taking the proverbial

It's terribly annoying isn't it? I suppose you could always do the old trick of going down a back size and up a cup size then apply anyway if it's something you want to do and you can be bothered dealing with them. I am usually a 34C but can wear a 32D in some stores.

I have actually seen castings that specify skinnier sizes. I was incredibly disappointed when I read the one for Collectif clothing (posted on here and in their email newsletter) requiring models. I think the ad said sizes 8-12 required. I'm a 12 on top but sometimes have to buy a 14 for the bust, and my bottom half is a 14-16. I love Collectif clothes and modelling them would be amazing but according to them I would have been a size too big for them. Strange because the clothes fit me!

It's just another example of a company which prides itself on being quirky and alternative complying with the beauty myth that we all have to be the same shape and size, and preferably skinny with big boobs. They may think that their customers are more likely to buy from them if they have models like this but I am of the opposite opinion, surely it alienates the customer?

Suicide Girls and most other "alternative modelling" sites and blogs do it too. I'm a member of an alt modelling community on livejournal and you rarely see anything other than size 8 women with big busts, and frequently implants posting on there. Nothing new and therefore nothing "alt" about that!

such castings are indeed frequent in the creative industries...even for 'alt' companies. Often it's because they already have the clothes/costume and need a girl to fit it, and I guess this goes for the bra as well...but I haven't seen the casting and so can't comment. It's not usually a value statement on what is or isn't 'acceptable' in terms of body types in the wider scence, just what is suitable for the relevant task.....sometimes!

In the creative industries people can be brutaly honest, I've had a two second up down from casters and had the 'too short, too skinny, too this, too that'. There was a thread a while ago here that touched on some of these topics with some great input from experienced performers who have worked over many different industries.

http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...r-cabaret.html

I'm glad that things are different in burlesque and it is the act and the stagecraft is more important to many promoters than how you look.

I can sort of unerstand fashion shows etc tending to want tall skinny models, they want to show off their clothes in the best light, the camera often seems to add pounds, just look at the way so many well known actresses are airbrushed slimmer after photoshoots, however I still have difficulty accepting the need to require girls to be bigger than a Dcup, stupidity on someones part me thinks, especially as I've seen Beau's pics on her webpage and would rate her very highly in terms of appearence :embarrassed:

Ah if only I were 10 years younger, 5 stone lighter, 120miles closer and she didn't already have a boyfriend :lol:

Note for all my mouth/fingers occasionally run away from me and I say things I probably shouldn't, the above is only meant to be taken in fun :embarrassed:

Blimey people, if someone's offering a job they can ask for whatever they want. Like it or not, we live in a world that's focussed on looks and that's not going to change any time soon, so if people think they need to hire women who fit into some sort of stereotypical ideal, then that is what they will continue to do. Don't let it get to you ...

For what it's worth, I actually thought the Collectif casting was brilliant BECAUSE it went up to a size 12. Most clothing companies would put a cap on models at size 8! I thought opening it up to a more realistic range of sizes was remarkably progressive ...

there is also a high chance the ad was just for some guy to have girls with D+ chest send photos of themselves to...

happens with casting calls all the time...