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Plus-sized women are too sexy for ABC and FOX.
Plus size Lane Bryant lingerie ad banned by FOX and ABC

Lane Bryant released a sexy new lingerie ad that features a voluptuous plus size model in bra and panties as she gets ready for a date. The commercial advertises Lane Bryant’s line of lingerie: Cacique, only Fox and ABC chose not to air the commercial. Now Lane Bryant is citing discrimination against full figured models and a controversy has ensued. Is the ad too racy?

Though the ad is sexy, it is similar to Victoria Secret ads that air regularly on television except for one noticeable difference: size! Lane Bryant uses a beautiful plus sized model, Ashley Graham, whose bust is noticeably larger than those depicted in Victoria Secret and other lingerie ads. Is this what caused Fox and ABC to ban the commercials?

Ashley Graham spoke about ABC’s decision not to air the commercial during Dancing with the Stars. She said, “It’s a bit prejudiced. The Victoria's Secret girls can flaunt around their panties all day long. But when there's a bigger woman with a little bit extra, they snipped it out immediately.” She also said that she was told that the commercial had ‘too much skin.’ You may watch Ashley Graham comment on the commercial in the video player below.

Lane Bryant is upset about the ban and posted about it on their official Lane Bryant blog ‘Inside Curve.”

“ABC and Fox have made the decision to define beauty for you by denying our new, groundbreaking Cacique commercial from airing freely on their networks,” the statement continues. “Yes, these are the same networks that have scantily-clad housewives so desperate they seduce every man on the block — and don't forget Bart Simpson, who has shown us the moon more often than NASA — all in what they call 'family hour.'”

What do you think?

Are Ashley Graham’s curves too racy for television?

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The hypocrisy, it beggars the imagination. I encourage everyone to open the article, because it includes the ad in question. See for yourself why Ashley Graham can sing "I'm Too Sexy" for TV.

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melannen
2010-04-24 03:57 am UTC (link)

I actually did find that far sexier than any Victoria's Secret ad I've been forced to watch, but I think that's because I've long since stopped seeing models who fit the hollywood-airbrushed-ideal as actual people; they exist in magazines and billboards and on the tv machine, not in real life, and as a result are about as sexy as the mannequins at Wal-mart. Any response to them is purely rote at this point.

Whereas the woman in the Lane Bryant ad was different enough that it didn't feel like watching an ad, it felt like a real scantily-clad woman doing real things, which made her both a lot more attractive and made it feel a lot more transgressive, because she was touchable and believable and went outside the parameters I was desensitized to.

(Not that I think that was a good reason to take the ad off the air. But I think it is possible that some of the decision-makers really *did* perceive it as more racy than the VS ads. Or at least got more turned on by it.

...also I am not saying that size-zero models aren't real people, or aren't attractive (my personal tastes aside), I'm saying one of the crappy things about our media culture is that it teaches us to see them as unreal.)

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	altera 2010-04-24 04:15 am UTC (link)
	...that makes complete sense and ITA. (Reply to this)(Parent)

aloysius
2010-04-24 04:53 am UTC (link)

That's what I was thinking, too. That model is more beautiful and sexier than the usual models and starlets we see scantily-clad on TV, and in a so much more real way, so it makes sense to me that people would perceive her as being more "racy".

Of course that just raises questions about what sort of society we're living in, and I don't think that's a good reason to take the add off the air, either. If the boys I know are going to masturbate to something they catch on the telly, I'd much rather it be that ad.

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	ladysphinx 2010-04-24 05:40 am UTC (link)
	This, plus a helping of some of the discussion above: chica is clearly about to go out and get her some, and "ladies" are not supposed to aggressively pursue sex. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2010-04-24 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah - the VS models exist to pose and be looked at and be done. This young woman is clearly going to be doing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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