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?!

But my point is do you think the photographer thought well women should be able to sit like this? Or let's have the women sit like this because it is controversial?

I just want to see pics of people wearing clothes that gives me some idea of how said item of clothing might look on a day to day basis. On a day to day basis I do not sit like this (again, yes I can and yes I should be able to. Of course. But I don't)

Looks like all the weird modeling poses on Zara website

Maybe not a feminist then. Something for me to consider. What being a feminist actually means.

Wouldn't say it looks sexy at all.

I sit like that sometimes. I've got loose hips and I'm always in shorts. If I want to stretch my legs, that's my business. It certainly isn't an invitation to have sex with me.

I think anyone who finds this picture offensive must have led an extraordinarily sheltered life.

It's a shit picture, not flattering to the model or the outfit, but it's not overtly sexual or even particularly suggestive.

I quite like the shoes though.

I don’t think that thinking if women simply behave like men that means anything like equality or liberation. So you’re probably more of a feminist than that poster.

Okay. I am completely hearing others don't think this is a sexy pic in any way.

Just for interest - because I am genuinely interested - why are pics like this used when they don't show the dress to its advantage?

(No it hasn't put me off the dress. I might still buy it!)

I think this is what they were going for. Imitating Zara to try to appeal to a younger audience.

IMO it's a bloke. M&S have been pushing the boundaries for some time now.

There's nothing remotely "Come fuck me" about this strangely posed/angled image.
It has more of a "Come near me and I'll fuck you up" vibe.

M&S and John Lewis are deliberately choosing very masculine or androgenous models to push and normalise the 'transgender look'. Possibly being paid by the trans lobby for doing so. This model is probably just a bloke manspreading.

Its a weird picture but doesn't seem inappropriate or any more alluring than any normal model pose. In fact I thibk it looks incredibly unsexy, the proportions are all wrong, in makes her legs look enormous compared to her torso, and the slouchy pose is def giving toilet vibes to me!
She is clearly an adult and itnis adults clothing, so even if they did want to to try and sell an ugly dress by pretending it would make you look sexy I don't really see why it would be a problem anyway?
Do you think ladies should always have their knees together?

This thread is batshit OP.

So not only have you backtracked on your original statement, you've backtracked on being a feminist 😂

But you are still going to buy the dress.

I don’t think it is. Have just looked on the app, there’s quite a lot of new stuff with this model and I don’t this it’s a man. Just that this is a particularly awful photo.

It’s not the only picture, there are others. This one just shows the dress when you are sitting down.

I dunno how you get 'come fuck me' from this... I get 'fuck off or I will shiv you' from it!

I don't really know where to start.

This is not a particularly sexual pose and it's weird you think it is.

If it were a pose designed to look sexy that would also fine. It's selling adult clothing, nothing inappropriate for public display is visible, and treating adult women's bodies and sexuality as taboo does nothing but harm women. There is nothing wrong with women wanting to feel sexy.

Women sit however they feel comfortable. The idea that women should keep their legs together when sitting because that's proper womanly behavior is ingrained misogyny. I have been physically uncomfortable sitting with my legs together since I was a child and anyone who wants to tell me it's not ladylike or that I'm sending "come do me" signals because I'm not positioning my legs properly for some oppressive gender standards can go fuck themselves.

I haven't back tracked on original statement? I still think it is a weird pic which has sexual undertones. I said I hear that others don't think so.

I have thought about what being a feminist means. I think it is interesting to challenge my thinking.

I have laughed about accusations about me being sheltered or unhinged or being celibate when people have no idea who I am or what I have experienced.

I appreciate that others may disagree with me. I think that is okay.

I may also may buy the dress.

I got 'man' straightaway. Anyone know the model?

I don’t it says that at all. It looks uncomfortable

She's manspreading.

They are running a very off putting very-young man in tight pants ad as well that makes me wince every time I pass

I agree with you OP. It makes me feel v uncomfortable.
It’s like she’s been told to sit with her hands pointing towards her crotch. It feels contrived rather than natural.
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I think you need to get a grip