To find the word 'flaunt' annoying (newspaper articles etc)

[mintywinter]

So and so flaunts their bikini/trim figure/etc. Nobody says flaunt in real life and people who are for example on holiday are not 'flaunting their amazing figure' they are just wearing a swimming costume on the beach or whatever.

'Flaunting her toned pins' = walking.
'Posing up a storm' = standing.
'Showcasing her eye-popping cleavage' = standing while wearing a top.

Yes, it’s fucking awful. TheUntiedShoelace post sums it up.

I forgot one:
'Puts on a leggy display' = walks.

Yes. Also "shows off"

"shows off her legs in shorts" = wears shorts
"shows off her figure in low-cut dress" = wears a dress

Agree. It would be nice to live in a world where women's body parts are not "assets" 😡

Though as a pedant, may I add that it is possibly even more annoying to see "flaunt" used in place of "flout" <walks off muttering>

Everyone has "tresses" instead of "hair" too.

'Commands attention' just by wearing some clothes.

I guess they have to jazz up “film star walks down the street/sits by a pool in a skirt/bikini. She looks nice/fat/thinner than normal/fatter than normal/older than before/pregnant”
delete as appropriate

Absolutely.

And I also hate 'xyz breaks their silence' - it's so cliched and overused and inappropriately so too. So for example, say Zara Tindall puts a post on Twitter next week about how much she loves her horse, there'll be a news article clickbait headline saying "Zara [finally] breaks her silence after Queen's funeral".

Yeah can't stand it. Often used with baby bumps or bikinis. It's ridiculous when all they are just doing is "being".

The one I hate MORE than anything else is “bumping along nicely”
what TF does it even mean? Who BUMPS along in normal life?

Or, there's the passive aggressive compliments that the Mail Online specialises in, eg,

'Blondie Filmstar showcases radiant holiday glow' - has put on 2kg.
'Sultrina Pop flaunts bold new look' - has put on 3kg
'Booby McLeggs reveals she's never been happier as she hikes with her cavichopoo' - has either put on 4kg or is pregnant, we can't decide, will throw it open to readers with some long lens photos taken from distant canyon

And the classic 'Gemma Collins flaunts her 3.5 stone weightloss'.

Don't forget "famous woman reveals post baby/diet/gym body"

Woman puts clothes on and leaves house.

I read that Blake Lively “debuted her pregnant stomach” at event. Ridiculous.

She went to an event, with all her body parts. And stomachs cannot be pregnant.

It was in the Independent… I expected better.

It is massively annoying but I've only ever seen this language in The Mail, so I regard it as my just punishment for succumbing to that shitty rag :)

Dave Gorman had a funny bit in Modern Life Is Good-ish about magazines and tabloids insisting that celebrity couples / celebrities with children were out and about in matching outfits, when they clearly weren't.

You can't even call it lazy journalism, it's just dross.

Just caught up with all of these, which are funny and so true!

If you read the Daily Mail YABU it's nasty and misogynistic.

How about that most annoying of clickbaits: Posters on Mumsnet are all saying the same thing about newspapers?

How do you know if you haven't read it? 🤔

I read it years ago and way back then that's the language it used. Where did I say I've never read it? 🤔

It's so annoying. They'd never say men were flaunting stuff!