To think this photo is not appropriate to advertise a dress?

[TheGoodEnoughWife]

Is it just my raging feminist thoughts with this photo that is being used as one of the pictures of a dress offered for sale on a high street store website. Is this appropriate? I don't think it is but one might say that that is my weird view and actually it is a perfectly okay pic? (!)
I think it looks like a 'come fuck me' picture and that is not okay?!

IMO it is an incredibly ugly photo.

If that's your idea of a 'come fuck me pose' I hope you enjoy celibacy

I have size 8 feet I was completely unaware there was any stigma and have no problem at all buying nice shoes.

Not now, no, but I'm talking 40 odd years ago. Size 8s were few and far apart, made me feel a freak!

And yet they many do and they can if they want to. And it doesn't mean anything. You can't even see her knickers. Calm down.

@MistyGray No one is saying there is a stigma around big feet, they look the same length as her because of the angle. And yes people would comment if the angle made her nose look seventeen times as big as her head.

I got an advert for loo roll 🚽. Mumsnet's algorithms are obviously seeing woman on the loo as well (definitely not "come fuck me")

This

And ultimately it’s a huge fail because we can’t see anything like enough detail to make a judgment about whether we’d buy the dress or not.

No a woman sitting down wearing an above knee, long sleeved denim dress that is in a womens clothing store being advertised to women does not say “come fuck me”.

The PP saying this is “raunchy”…it must genuinely be a struggle for you to exist in the world if THIS is raunchy to you.

Are you ok? It’s just a photo.

She looks like a sulky teenager!

it's weird and not sexy

An unhinged OP.

I'd assume the image is referencing fashionable gender ambiguity.

But what do I know? 😬 MN needs a 'shrug' emoji

Years of crossing my legs, or trying to sit with my legs together to be ‘demure’ (being short they rarely touch the floor so it’s very uncomfortable), has given me no benefit and instead endless lower back pain and sciatica. Now I sit with my legs apart, and if not wearing tights, I wear short pants underneath to protect my ‘modesty’, but otherwise I couldn’t really care what I look like. I didn’t realise I was inviting random strangers to bed me. I’m a little disappointed now with the lack of take up of my subconscious offer.

I think the photographer should have gone to Specsavers.
That's the most unflattering angle, and less 'come f### me', "oh gawd, another parking thread but no diagrammes?"

Is it Zara? They always do weird poses. You can’t actually see what the dress looks like.

See nothing that says come and fuck me about this advert at all.
and I really like the dress. I have a very similar one

I don't think I've ever seen a less sexual picture

It's the other way around though, isn't it? Women have been conditioned to sit with their legs closed because having them open has been labelled provocative, not because having them open is an actual invitation to sex. A person's legs naturally fall open when relaxed.

Do you realise the definition of unhinged? Mentally unbalanced. That is pretty strong.

How rude of you to describe someone that way who has a different opinion to you.

It’s very common to see men sitting like this, so why shouldn’t women be able to without being judged? Looks relaxed rather than alluring or raunchy to me.

@SexAndCakes I totally agree. It has been labelled that way, wrongly.

Again. Women can sit whatever way they like. But they still don't tend to sit like this so why was this pose used?

It’s one of five photos. From them all you can see the dress pretty well.

Surely if you were a feminist you would think this looks like a position any man would sit in so it’s perfectly fine for a woman to sit like this too? You’re unnecessarily sexualising it